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David Gauke

Conservative MP for South West Hertfordshire

• Shadow Minister, Treasury (since 27 Mar 2007)

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
• Majority: 8,473 votes. — 342nd out of 643 MPs.

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• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How David Gauke voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very 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

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

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership

• Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) (since 10 Nov 2009)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Treasury, Education and Skills, Home Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Health

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Open Source Software, Departmental Computers, Police, Outsourcing, Child Benefit: Personal Records

(based on written questions asked by David Gauke and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (18 out of n/a)
• Child Poverty Bill Committee (10 out of n/a)
• Banking Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Finance Bill Committee (21 out of n/a)
• Finance Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)
• Statistics and Registration Service Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill Committee (5 out of n/a)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (20 out of n/a)
• Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Financial Services Regulation (10 Nov 2009)

“I am grateful to the Minister for reiterating that point. Can she explain why the Commission came up with proposals in September that do not appear to respect the agreement made by ECOFIN earlier in the year?”

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Financial Services Regulation (10 Nov 2009)

“It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr. Olner. May I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) on securing the debate and on speaking so eloquently on this subject? The debate is well-timed for two reasons. First, we are clearly still living with the consequences of the turmoil of the past two years within the financial...”

Written Answers — Treasury: Taxation (10 Nov 2009)

“To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what recent assessment he has made of the merits of introducing new mechanisms for settling tax liabilities; (2) what mechanisms HM Revenue and Customs has in place to assess the cost-effectiveness of different methods of debt collection; (3) what recent progress HM Revenue and Customs has made on its risk-profiling work in relation to tax debt.”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 32 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 34 written questions in the last year — 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 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 72% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 7 annotations on this MP’s speeches — average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 98 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever David Gauke speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 200 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Register last updated: 11 Nov 2009. More about the Register

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Expenses

Figures in brackets are ranks. Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2007/08 receipts.

^* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £570 (555th). Rail £1,300 (400th).

^** Car £983 (534th). Rail £1,100 (410th).