• Conservative MP for Reigate
• Whip, Whips (since 19 Oct 2005)
• Majority: 10,988 votes. — 174th out of 635 MPs.
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How Crispin Blunt voted on key issues since 2001:

• Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against equal gay rights. votes, speeches

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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.

Select Committee membership

• Member, Finance & Services Committee (since 20 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Trade and Industry, Health, Home Department, Defence

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Middle East, Saville Inquiry, Agenda for Change, Govan Shipyard, Women Prisoners

(based on written questions asked by Crispin Blunt and answered by departments)

Points of Order: Topical Debate — Middle East (1 May 2008)

“I am immensely grateful to my hon. Friend for the way in which he is presenting the positive case for Saudi Arabia. I hope that he will get across the message that we will never again expect British citizens to be treated in the way that Sandy Mitchell and William Sampson, a Canadian-British citizen, were from 2001 to 2002. I hope that my hon. Friend can get that message across, because if we...”

Points of Order: Topical Debate — Middle East (1 May 2008)

“I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt), and I commend his and his colleagues' initiative in visiting Gaza. I have also done so in the past year. The situation there is one of despair, with all the consequences that come from 1.5 million people living in terrible circumstances. Let me return to that issue later. This is a topical debate on the middle east, but the...”

Points of Order: Topical Debate — Middle East (1 May 2008)

“Like my hon. Friend, I was at the forum. Was he, like me, impressed by the comments of Mr. Ben-Meir, the lecturer from New York university, who said that the Arab peace plan was of immense importance—indeed, was central—to achieving a solution, but that it needed to be accompanied by soft diplomacy? I think that that was my hon. Friend's point. That is why the policy of the Arab...”

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• Has spoken in 35 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 23 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2007, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 69% of votes in parliament — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 3 comments on this MP's speeches — below average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches are understandable to an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 65 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Crispin Blunt speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 220 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register last updated: 23 Apr 2008. More about the Register

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Figures in brackets are ranks. Parliament's explanatory notes.

^* Car £2,977 (324th). Rail £1,049 (416th).