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Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How David Heath voted on key issues since 2001:

  • Voted strongly for a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
  • Voted a mixture of for and against introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
  • Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
  • Voted moderately against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
  • Voted strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly against replacing Trident. votes, speeches
  • Voted a mixture of for and against the hunting ban. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
  • Voted very strongly for stopping climate change. votes, speeches

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

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership
  • Member, Justice Committee (since 18 Apr 2008)

Asks most questions about

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

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departments: Advertising, Prisons, Tetra, Post-Mortems: Children, Immigration

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

RSS feed Most recent appearances in parliament

Business of the House (13 Nov 2008)

“This is going to sound very trivial, but it is actually quite important to our landscape and countryside. May we have a debate on conkers or, perhaps more properly, on invasive pathogens on native British trees? Horse chestnuts are being assailed by Phytophthora, leaf miner caterpillar and, most seriously of all, by Pseudomonas syringae—a new and very aggressive disease, which has...”

Business of the House: Regional Accountability (12 Nov 2008)

“The right hon. and learned Lady is talking about accountability to the regions. She knows how unhappy many of us in the south-west are about the composition of the south-west regional Select Committee. Will she give me a guarantee that no hon. Member from outside the region will sit on that Committee and that every county in the south-west will be represented on it?”

Business of the House (12 Nov 2008)

“On that point, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not limit the time available to the Leader of the House to the extent that she cannot answer one simple question on the south-west. How can it possibly be right to pack a regional Select Committee for the south-west with Members of Parliament from outside the region, and for counties within the south-west not to be represented at all because...”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 81 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 42 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
  • Is a member of 1 select committee.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2007, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 79% of votes in parliament — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 24 comments on this MP's speeches — well above 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.
  • 69 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever David Heath speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 882 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members' Interests

6. Overseas visits
13-15 April 2008, to Moscow, to speak on corruption at the Annual Congress of the United Russia Party. Fares and accommodation for two nights were paid for by the United Russia Party of Russia. (Registered 23 April 2008)
31 August-7 September 2008, to India as member of a delegation from the Liberal Friends of India, visiting Delhi and Kolkata. All flights and accommodation paid for by the Government of India. (Registered 8 October 2008)

Register last updated: 5 Nov 2008. More about the Register

View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

Expenses

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

Type2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/05 (ranking out of 659)2003/04 (ranking out of 658)2002/03 (ranking out of 657)2001/02 (ranking out of 657)
Additional Costs Allowance£22,110 (joint 1st)£20,947£19,477 (332nd)£20,333 (joint 3rd)£18,249 (412th)£15,539 (286th)
London Supplement£0£0£0£0£0£0
Incidental Expenses Provision£21,506 (210th)£20,852£19,300 (142nd)£19,111 (9th)£18,234 (joint 1st)£14,630 (363rd)
Staffing Allowance£80,326 (436th)£74,757£65,466 (533rd)£66,460 (397th)£61,980 (joint 397th)£46,115 (313th)
Members' Travel£6,187 (392nd)*£6,818£10,616 (318th)£9,420 (348th)£11,732 (258th)£9,875 (229th)
Members' Staff Travel£544 (213th)£1,130£288 (328th)£412 (291st)£356 (309th)£779 (165th)
Centrally Purchased Stationery£441 (552nd)£578£444 (539th)£306 (594th)£193 (635th)£642 (joint 491st)
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,884 (437th)£2,046£1,581 (479th)£1,103 (547th)N/AN/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment£1,058 (joint 320th)£0£2,064 (joint 10th)£2,064 (joint 5th)£2,064 (joint 5th)£2,064 (joint 5th)
Other Costs£0£1,676£0£0£0£0
Total£134,056 (398th)£128,804£119,236 (416th)£119,209 (331st)£112,808 (332nd)£89,644 (301st)

* Car £5,846 (84th). Rail £341 (497th).