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Edward Balls
Labour MP for Morley and Outwood

  • Also represented Normanton
  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Edward Balls voted on key issues:

  • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
  • Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
  • Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
  • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
  • Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
  • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Education, Home Department, Education and Skills, Treasury, Work and Pensions

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Building Schools for the Future Programme, Police: Manpower, Financial Services: Pay, Mental Health, Care Support Services

(based on written questions asked by Edward Balls and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (24 Jan 2012)

“With the Chancellor away in Brussels in his new role as an observer at European Finance Ministers meetings, it is nice to welcome the Chief Secretary to his new starring role at Treasury questions. I am sure he will know, although he has not told the House, that in the last 15 minutes the International Monetary Fund has announced that it is once again downgrading its growth forecast for the...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (24 Jan 2012)

“Bluster. The right hon. Gentleman is worse than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and there was no mention of the IMF growth downgrade. The answer is that less than half of those low-paid public sector workers got the rise. Almost a million did not get the £250 increase that they were promised by the Treasury. Last week, we urged the Chancellor to ask the pay review bodies to make the 1%...”

Written Answers — Treasury: Britain Building Investment Fund (11 Jan 2012)

“To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to table 2.3 of his autumn statement (1) what (a) assumptions and (b) methodologies underlie the £50 million saving shown for the Get Britain Building investment fund in 2014-15; (2) what (a) assumptions and (b) methodologies underlie the profile of the costings shown for the Get Britain Building investment fund in (i) 2012-13,...”

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  • Has spoken in 25 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 31 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 60.13% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 48 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.
  • 171 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Edward Balls’s activity.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 636 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payment of £1,000 from Associated Newspapers Ltd, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT, for article. Address of payer: A&N Media Finance Services, PO Box 6795, St George Street, Leicester LE1 1ZP. Hours: 1 hr. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 11 April 2011)
Received from the Economist, 25 St James’s St, London SW1A 1HG, travel and accommodation with a value of £2,486.23. This was for speaking at the Buttonwood Gathering in New York, USA, 25-27 October 2011. Hours spent on preparation and delivery of the speech: 16 hrs plus travel. (Registered 21 December 2011)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
(b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
(b) Donations to support my campaign for leadership of the Labour Party:
(b) Name of donor: Mark Robertson
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500
(b) Date of receipt: 25 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 25 August 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 17 September 2010)
(b) Name of donor: Michael Sanzone
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500
(b) Date of receipt: 25 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 25 August 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 17 September 2010)
(b) Name of donor: CWU
(b) Address of donor: 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX.
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: use of car and driver for 14 days, value £2,400
(b) Date of receipt: 23 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 23 August 2010
(b) Donor status: trade union
(b) (Registered 17 September 2010)
(b) Name of donor: Dale Campbell-Savours
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1,525
(b) Date of receipt: 24 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 24 August 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 5 October 2010)
(b) Name of donor: Michael Sanzone
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500
(b) Date of receipt: 26 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 27 August 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 5 October 2010)
(b) Name of donor: Mark Robertson
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500
(b) Date of receipt: 26 August 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 27 August 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 5 October 2010)
(b) Name of donor: CWU
(b) Address of donor: 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX.
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4.813.63
(b) Date of receipt: 21 September 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 21 September 2010
(b) Donor status: trade union
(b) (Registered 17 September 2010)
(b) Name of donor: CWU
(b) Address of donor: 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX.
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,877.51
(b) Date of receipt: 21 October 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 21 October 2010
(b) Donor status: trade union
(b) (Registered 1 November 2010)
(b) Name of donor: Ken Follett
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £11,000
(b) Date of receipt: 9 October 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 9 October 2010
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 3 November2010)
(b) Name of donor: Bloomberg Tradebook Europe Limited
(b) Address of donor: City Gate House, 39/45 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1PQ
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Bloomberg terminal and pro licence at £15,000 each year (£7,000 July-December 2011)
(b) Date of receipt: 6 June 2011
(b) Date of acceptance: 6 June 2011
(b) Donor status: company, registration number 03556095
(b) (Registered 27 July 2011)

Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. More about the Register

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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.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Staying away from main home£11,840 (joint 479th with 1 other) £12,219 (joint 528th with 1 other) £15,979 (494th) £13,618        
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Office running costs£27,747 (23rd) £21,429 (130th) £26,801 (67th) £28,400        
Staffing costs£88,777 (469th) £90,414 (202nd) £80,915 (424th) £75,231        
Communications Allowance£12,147 (91st) £9,312 (253rd) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£10,922 (164th)1 £11,346 (167th)2 £13,933 (90th)3 £12,984        
Members' Staff Travel£588 (138th) £1,129 (81st) £1,266 (joint 91st with 1 other) £240        
Members' Spouse Travel£0 £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Family Travel£2,195 (7th) £2,010 (11th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Purchased Stationery£5,569 (142nd) £2,126 (16th) £3,928 (25th) £3,345        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£4,470 (106th) £10,740 (28th) £9,365 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,071 (joint 516th with 5 others) £1,014 (joint 385th with 19 others) £1,014        
Other Costs£0 £0 £2,500 (41st) £0        
Total£159,784 (199th) £155,526 (180th) £157,076 (35th) £144,197        

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,043 (267th). Rail £7,783 (84th). Misc £96 (166th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,277 (180th). Rail £7,019 (113th). Misc £50 (197th).

3 Car £5,064 (141st). 3rd party £30 (47th). Rail £8,839 (52nd).

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Other offices held in the past

  • Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families (28 Jun 2007 to 11 May 2010)
  • Economic Secretary, HM Treasury (8 May 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)

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