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Colin Challen
Former Labour MP for Morley and Rothwell
- Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
- Left Parliament on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election
- Majority: 12,343 votes. — 132nd out of 643 MPs.
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Colin Challen voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Sometimes rebels against their party in their last parliament.
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Justice: Wills (30 Mar 2010)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he is taking to increase the number of people who make wills.”
- Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood): New Clause 8 — Reports on decarbonisation and CCS progress (24 Feb 2010)
“There is a great deal of truth in what the hon. Gentleman says. However, even with the small, state-of-the-art pilot project in Germany, people have to be convinced about having the carbon under their land. It is not always out in the North sea, which sounds very nice and offshore, as if it will never come back and bite us. In storing something like that underground, one has to find the legal...”
- Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood): New Clause 8 — Reports on decarbonisation and CCS progress (24 Feb 2010)
“I entirely accept the urgency of this. I want an EPS to be in place at some point in the not too distant future. New clause 8 would allow for that and, as the Minister has said, existing legislation permits it. We will have this standard when we better understand the technology, legalities, disposal, transport and all the rest of it, and I do not think that that can be established in 12 months.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 21 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 72.28% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 4 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 37 people are tracking this MP.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 128 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 12 Apr 2010. More about the Register
View the history of this MP's entries in the Register
Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (ranking out of 659) | 2003/04 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £15,976 (409th) | £11,412 (542nd) | £12,694 (531st) | £16,521 | £13,190 (521st) | £15,691 (450th) | £16,689 (479th) | £17,449 (76th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £15,246 (419th) | £12,843 (520th) | £16,793 (517th) | £18,137 | £18,766 (277th) | £18,613 (381st) | £18,110 (331st) | £21,987 (117th) |
| Staffing costs | £105,745 (44th) | £97,437 (40th) | £90,465 (65th) | £83,383 | £66,976 (475th) | £64,270 (492nd) | £60,681 (508th) | £43,065 (438th) |
| Communications Allowance | £103 (600th) | £2,189 (554th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £18,358 (33rd)1 | £13,938 (105th)2 | £12,691 (118th)3 | £11,316 | £10,638 (316th) | £10,353 (316th) | £11,389 (271st) | £7,940 (321st) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £1,512 (joint 40th with 1 other) | £3,186 (9th) | £2,097 (38th) | £2,573 | £3,692 (13th) | £1,530 (96th) | £1,911 (53rd) | £2,192 (29th) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £3,066 (joint 367th with 1 other) | £1,020 (215th) | £979 (joint 287th with 1 other) | £1,548 | £1,180 (241st) | £690 (411th) | £1,724 (122nd) | £1,721 (115th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,063 (228th) | £1,585 (482nd) | £5,182 | £4,913 (143rd) | £1,457 (500th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,275 (joint 220th with 2 others) | £1,275 (54th) | £0 | £1,831 (joint 424th with 1 other) | £1,831 (joint 417th with 1 other) | £1,831 (402nd) | £1,831 (367th) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £160,005 (196th) | £146,363 (331st) | £138,579 (310th) | £138,660 | £121,186 (375th) | £114,435 (433rd) | £112,335 (342nd) | £96,185 (141st) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £854 (508th). Rail £14,134 (7th). Other: Rail £8 (169th). European £3,362 (2nd).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,030 (517th). Rail £10,775 (30th). Misc £846 (41st). Other: Rail £173 (89th). European £1,114 (50th).
3 Car £752 (554th). Rail £11,597 (16th). Other £15 (68th). European £327 (110th).