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David Heath
Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome
- Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How David Heath voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly against a stricter asylum system. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
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)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Public Bodies Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Counter-Terrorism Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
- Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Criminal Defence Service Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Electoral Administration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
- Fraud Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
- Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill Committee (9 out of 13)
- Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill Committee (9 out of 10)
- European Parliament (Representation) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
- Crime (International Co-operation) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Criminal Justice Bill Committee (32 out of 32)
- Courts Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
- Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Rating (Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Marine Conservation Zones (21 May 2013)
“I start by congratulating the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) on securing the debate. I should immediately apologise for the absence of the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon), who cannot be here this afternoon. In some recompense for his absence, I make it immediately plain to the...”
- Marine Conservation Zones (21 May 2013)
“I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I would not make up policy on the hoof even if my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury was here, because that is not the way we do things in our Department. That said, the actual management measures will be drawn up separately and put in place by the relevant public authorities after designation and will be open for consultation, as appropriate, before they are...”
- Marine Conservation Zones (21 May 2013)
“The precautionary principle suggests that we should do the reverse—that we should up the level of designation until such time as we can be confident that we will not be damaging the very ecological factors that give rise to the designation in the process—so that is the approach that we take, but it is sensitive to the information that we receive from the hon. Gentleman’s...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 43 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 88.36% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 31 annotations 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.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 1735 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Nil
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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 | £23,291 (136th) | £23,002 (191st) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £20,947 | £19,477 (332nd) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £18,249 (412th) | £15,539 (286th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £19,584 (241st) | £20,429 (219th) | £21,506 (210th) | £20,852 | £19,300 (142nd) | £19,111 (9th) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £14,630 (363rd) |
| Staffing costs | £91,040 (428th) | £84,508 (426th) | £80,326 (436th) | £74,757 | £65,466 (533rd) | £66,460 (397th) | £61,980 (joint 397th with 36 others) | £46,115 (313th) |
| Communications Allowance | £8,207 (359th) | £6,905 (376th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £7,501 (312th)1 | £6,367 (377th)2 | £6,187 (392nd)3 | £6,818 | £10,616 (318th) | £9,420 (348th) | £11,732 (258th) | £9,875 (229th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £456 (172nd) | £567 (184th) | £544 (213th) | £1,130 | £288 (328th) | £412 (291st) | £356 (309th) | £779 (165th) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £765 (149th) | £603 (192nd) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £228 (54th) | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £3,929 (276th) | £907 (joint 258th with 1 other) | £441 (552nd) | £578 | £444 (539th) | £306 (594th) | £193 (635th) | £642 (joint 491st with 1 other) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £2,260 (334th) | £1,884 (437th) | £2,046 | £1,581 (479th) | £1,103 (547th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,265 (joint 232nd with 3 others) | £1,058 (joint 320th with 22 others) | £0 | £2,064 (joint 10th with 5 others) | £2,064 (joint 5th with 6 others) | £2,064 (joint 5th with 6 others) | £2,064 (joint 5th with 6 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £1,676 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £155,001 (265th) | £146,813 (321st) | £134,056 (398th) | £128,804 | £119,236 (416th) | £119,209 (331st) | £112,808 (332nd) | £89,644 (301st) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £6,485 (29th). Rail £726 (487th). Misc £270 (113th). Other: Mileage £20 (87th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £5,744 (62nd). Rail £615 (480th). Misc £8 (255th).