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Dawn Butler

Labour MP for Brent South

• Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (since 3 Nov 2009)
  Assistant Whip (funded by HM Treasury) (since 17 Sep 2008)

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
• Majority: 11,326 votes. — 56th 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 Dawn Butler 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 very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against 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, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (since 14 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Home Department, Deputy Prime Minister, Education and Skills, Communities and Local Government, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Identity Cards, Extradition, Racial and Religious Hatred, Somalia, Terrorism

(based on written questions asked by Dawn Butler and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill Committee (18 out of n/a)
• Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill Committee (3 out of n/a)
• Pensions Bill Committee (13 out of n/a)
• Greater London Authority Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of n/a)
• Health Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Unemployment: Inverness (5 Feb 2010)

“The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 4 February 2010: As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what the average length of time was for which claimants aged between 18 and 24 years...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Youth Citizenship Commission (27 Jan 2010) has video

“I am co-ordinating the Government response to the Youth Citizenship Commission. I have been impressed by the breadth of commitment of all Government Departments in engaging young people as active citizens in their communities and as they go through the transition to adulthood. I expect to publish my findings in response to the YCC in February, when I shall report on the significant amount of...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Youth Citizenship Commission (27 Jan 2010) has video

“I would like to congratulate my hon. Friend on all her work for the all-party parliamentary group on youth affairs. She does an excellent job. The UK Youth Parliament is a real success story: my hon. Friend will know that it held a great debate here in the House, and one of its key priorities is to lower the voting age to 16. She makes a valuable point, and I will indeed press the House...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 2 debates in the last year — well 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 1 select committee (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 82% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 10 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 121 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Dawn Butler speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 37 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Register last updated: 6 Jan 2010. 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 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £61 (567th).

¹ Car £979 (536th). Rail £206 (523rd). Other £4 (74th).