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Daniel Kawczynski

Conservative MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham


  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
  • Majority: 1,808 votes. — 578th out of 643 MPs.

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Daniel Kawczynski voted on key issues since 2001:

  • Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
  • Voted strongly against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
  • Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. 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 equal gay rights. votes, speeches
  • Voted strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes, speeches

Read about how the voting record is decided.

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

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership
  • Member, International Development Committee (since 11 Mar 2008)

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Health, Home Department, Defence

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Postal Services, Shropshire, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Single Farm Payments, Dentistry

(based on written questions asked by Daniel Kawczynski and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

RSS feed Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Tamils (2 Jul 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the level of violent extremism in the UK connected with Tamil extremists.”

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Departmental Contracts (1 Jul 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with which companies his Department, excluding its overseas posts, entered into contracts in the last financial year.”

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Students: Radicalism (1 Jul 2009)

“To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people in his Department work (a) full-time and (b) part-time on matters related to preventing violent extremism in universities.”

More of Daniel Kawczynski's recent appearances

Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 37 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 164 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Is a member of 1 select committee (0 as chair).
  • 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 with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 24 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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.
  • 100 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Daniel Kawczynski speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 202 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members' Interests

6. Overseas visits
15-20 February 2009, to Israel with the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), for meetings with politicians and officials and to visit the Golan Heights. Costs of the visit were paid by CFI. (Registered 11 March 2009)

Register last updated: 24 Jun 2009. 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 – 2007/08 receipts.

Type2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Additional Costs Allowance£21,890 (295th) £22,060 (joint 237th) £20,060        
London Supplement£0 £0 £0        
Incidental Expenses Provision£20,722 (200th) £20,949 (238th) £26,700        
Staffing Allowance£88,093 (310th) £84,476 (joint 314th) £68,929        
Communications Allowance£13,444 (34th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£10,111 (218th)* £9,501 (242nd)** £10,013        
Members' Staff Travel£382 (243rd) £117 (369th) £267        
Members' Spouse Travel£68 (338th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Family Travel£0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Purchased Stationery£255 (605th) £563 (502nd) £192        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£780 (591st) £949 (591st) £150 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment£992 (581st) £1,078 (294th) £930        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0        
Total£156,737 (152nd) £139,693 (289th) £127,241        

* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,447 (256th). Rail £4,066 (232nd). Misc £504 (68th). Other: Rail £87 (127th). European £2,007 (13th).

** Car £4,831 (159th). Rail £4,304 (212th). European £366 (99th).