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David Lammy

Labour MP for Tottenham

  • Minister of State (Higher Education and Intellectual Property), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (since 13 Oct 2009)
  • Entered Parliament on 22 June 2000 — Byelection
  • Majority: 13,034 votes. — 34th out of 643 MPs.

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How David Lammy voted on key issues since 2001:

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

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Home Department, Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Trade and Industry, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Treasury

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Young Offenders, Equal Treatment Directives, Departmental Review, Welfare to Work, New Deal for Communities

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

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

RSS feed Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment Tribunals Service (5 Nov 2009)

“This information is not collected by either the Department or the Higher Education Funding Council for England.”

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Botany (5 Nov 2009)

“The latest information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency is shown in the following table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010. Doctorate, first degree and other undergraduate botany qualifiers( 1) : UK Higher Education Institutions Academic years 2003/04 to 2007/08 Academic year Doctorate First d egree Other u ndergraduate ...”

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Liverpool John Moores University: Manpower (5 Nov 2009)

“We have received no representations on this matter. However, as we made clear in Higher Ambitions, published on 3 November, Government will not become involved in decisions about staffing matters made by universities.”

More of David Lammy's recent appearances

Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 17 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
  • Is a member of 0 select committees (0 as chair).
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 73% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 16 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
  • 126 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever David Lammy speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 367 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Barrister (non-practising).
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
I receive support towards the cost of employing a social policy research assistant from:
I receive financial support for set-up, hosting and maintenance of my website from Toolkit Websites Ltd.
Name of donor: Alison Swan Parente
Address: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5000
Date of receipt: 6 July 2009
Date of acceptance: 8 July 2009
Donor status: Individual
(Registered 23 July 2009)
Name of donor: Lord Hollick
Address: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date of receipt: 24 August 2009
Date of acceptance: 28 August 2009
Donor status: Individual
(Registered 13 September 2009)
Name of donor: DB Consultants Limited.
Address of donor: 12 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London W1J 5HL.
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date of receipt: 28 September 2009
Date of acceptance: 28 September 2009
Donor status: Company, registration number 04824053
(Registered 3 October 2009)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Life membership of the Commonwealth Club provided by the Commonwealth Society. (Registered 20 January 2009)

Register last updated: 28 Oct 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)2005/062004/05 (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£0 £0 £0 £0 £12,041 (537th) £13,222 (558th) £0
London Supplement£2,812 (joint 1st) £2,712 (joint 1st) £2,613 £1,618 (joint 1st) £1,574 (joint 1st) £1,281 (joint 104th) £0
Incidental Expenses Provision£18,828 (301st) £24,282 (115th) £19,945 £16,847 (418th) £18,607 (joint 382nd) £18,234 (joint 1st) £4,627 (624th)
Staffing Allowance£93,013 (102nd) £83,397 (356th) £84,112 £79,941 (45th) £74,985 (joint 8th) £72,196 (36th) £62,444 (11th)
Communications Allowance£9,874 (173rd) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£1,485 (602nd)* £342 (630th)** £1,673 £1,320 (635th) £924 (joint 637th) £2,255 (612th) £2,422 (584th)
Members' Staff Travel£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Members' Spouse Travel£0 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£1,427 (joint 107th) £1,613 (140th) £1,592 £2,705 (64th) £1,098 (224th) £1,376 (192nd) £1,258 (joint 241st)
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£4,475 (105th) £2,365 (358th) £2,705 £3,479 (220th) £3,245 (236th) N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment£1,310 (joint 167th) £1,125 (joint 205th) £0 £1,916 (273rd) £1,916 (269th) £1,916 (joint 264th) £1,916 (joint 250th)
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £5,257 (27th) £3,215 (15th)
Total£133,224 (497th) £115,836 (581st) £112,640 £107,826 (571st) £114,390 (435th) £115,737 (262nd) £75,882 (535th)

* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £1,096 (425th). Other: Rail £389 (54th).

** Car £280 (574th). Rail £62 (561st).