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Fiona Mactaggart
Labour MP for Slough

    • Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Fiona Mactaggart voted on key issues since 2001:

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

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Home Department, Work and Pensions, Health, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Justice

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Public Appointments, Human Trafficking, Action for Employment, Public Appointments, Domestic Violence

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    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Culture: Education (13 May 2013)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many cross-departmental ministerial meetings have been held to discuss cultural education since February 2012; on what dates such meetings were held; and who attended each such meeting.”

    Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Services (13 May 2013)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have been asked by his officials to complete the online signature strengths questionnaire; and what the range of results has been.”

    Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

    “That will not be dealt with by this legislation.”

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    Numerology

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    • Has spoken in 66 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 58 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
    • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
    • Has voted in 75.39% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 14 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.
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    • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 502 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
    Name of donor: European Azerbaijan Society
    Address of donor : 2 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AA
    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Hospitality in a box within the Royal Enclosure at the Royal Windsor Horse show and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant, including buffet lunch, drinks, dinner, souvenir book and woollen commemorative scarf.
    Estimated value; £1,000
    Date of receipt of donation: 13 May 2012
    Date of acceptance of donation: 3 May 2012
    Donor status: unincorporated association
    (Registered 17 May 2012)
    8. Land and Property
    Office premises in Glasgow (held on my behalf by trustees), from which rental income is received.
    9. Registrable shareholdings
    (b) Mactaggart Heritable Holdings Ltd.; property investment and management.
    11. Miscellaneous
    I have made an interest-free loan of  £17,000 to Slough Labour Memorial Hall, a registered friendly society, from whom I rent my constituency office. The loan is to pay for refurbishing other parts of the premises and replacing a boiler. £9,000 has been repaid. (Registered 26 January 2012; updated 19 March 2013)

    Register last updated: 7 May 2013. 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.

    Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (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)
    Staying away from main home£1,811 (579th) £3,392 (583rd) £1,901 (586th) £3,280 £827 (609th) £1,613 (608th) £3,092 (616th) £0
    London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,255 (joint 107th with 10 others) £0 £0
    Office running costs£14,633 (442nd) £11,992 (543rd) £21,467 (214th) £18,743 £16,787 (421st) £17,799 (481st) £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) £6,567 (602nd)
    Staffing costs£104,331 (62nd) £99,820 (18th) £86,203 (247th) £85,328 £77,461 (93rd) £71,773 (joint 85th with 44 others) £69,084 (119th) £51,508 (134th)
    Communications Allowance£13,726 (41st) £10,031 (124th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Travel£2,177 (573rd)1 £2,593 (564th)2 £1,101 (614th)3 £362 £260 (648th) £1,025 (635th) £944 (636th) £34 (646th)
    Members' Staff Travel£58 (joint 365th with 4 others) £58 (joint 402nd with 1 other) £13 (joint 432nd with 1 other) £0 £10 (joint 467th with 1 other) £12 (480th) £36 (453rd) £0
    Members' Spouse Travel£0 £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Family Travel£0 £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Centrally Purchased Stationery£6,998 (joint 8th with 4 others) £1,132 (185th) £5,010 (13th) £2,657 £2,540 (71st) £1,769 (joint 90th with 1 other) £2,332 (45th) £2,183 (56th)
    Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£4,728 (joint 84th with 1 other) £14,459 (16th) £9,494 £10,431 (40th) £5,156 (111th) N/A N/A
    Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,194 (joint 336th with 2 others) £1,008 (joint 410th with 5 others) £180 £1,869 (372nd) £1,869 (366th) £1,869 (358th) £1,869 (335th)
    Other Costs£5,454 (35th) £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
    Total£149,188 (335th) £134,940 (475th) £131,162 (438th) £120,044 £111,803 (528th) £102,271 (582nd) £95,591 (585th) £62,161 (636th)

    1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,068 (483rd). Rail £467 (505th). Misc £28 (220th). Other: Rail £36 (140th). European £578 (94th).

    2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,188 (498th). Rail £554 (484th). Other: Rail £102 (114th). European £749 (76th).

    3 Car £663 (559th). Rail £433 (485th). Other £5 (72nd).