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Frank Dobson
Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras
- Also represented Camden Holborn and St Pancras South
- Entered Parliament on 3 May 1979 — General election
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- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Frank Dobson voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Treasury, Home Department, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Foundation Hospitals, NHS Direct, IT Contracts, Departmental Manpower, Diagnostic and Treatment Centres
(based on written questions asked by Frank Dobson and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Sustainable Communities Bill Committee (4 out of 11)
- Promotion of Volunteering Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
“Does the Minister accept that a generalised rating for a hospital is not going to be valuable because, within one hospital, some departments might be doing a brilliant job while others are not? It would be stupid if an overall rating persuaded people not to go to a particular hospital for treatment if the specialty they required was being practised brilliantly.”
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the argument sometimes put by defenders of the tobacco industry—usually paid defenders—is that people are exercising free choice? In fact, they are not exercising free choice because they are addicts who took up the addiction when tobacco companies persuaded them to smoke when they were teenagers.”
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
“Let me demonstrate the absolutely vile morality—if I can combine those two words—of the tobacco industry. When it was discovered that nicotine was addictive, the industry increased the proportion of nicotine in cigarettes to make them more addictive. People like that should not be listened to; they should be shown the door.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 27 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 44 written questions in the last year — above 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 64.30% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 10 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 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") 1576 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Nil
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. 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.
| 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 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £2,712 (joint 1st with 46 others) | £2,613 | £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) | £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others) |
| Office running costs | £5,057 (635th) | £4,371 (640th) | £11,960 (599th) | £16,203 | £12,341 (569th) | £16,285 (548th) | £12,394 (595th) | £10,504 (507th) |
| Staffing costs | £107,417 (35th) | £85,304 (408th) | £92,819 (36th) | £86,880 | £83,459 (27th) | £74,985 (joint 8th with 27 others) | £71,100 (60th) | £56,692 (43rd) |
| Communications Allowance | £10,394 (joint 173rd with 2 others) | £2,625 (541st) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £72 (637th)1 | £173 (632nd)2 | £0 | £172 | £1,824 (623rd) | £3,266 (584th) | £703 (643rd) | £0 |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £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 | £2,121 (508th) | £881 (272nd) | £811 (360th) | £426 | £834 (346th) | £845 (joint 331st with 2 others) | £1,661 (128th) | £1,021 (320th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £1,648 (434th) | £2,111 (399th) | £1,477 | £1,890 (joint 424th with 1 other) | £1,945 (423rd) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £26 (644th) | £26 (641st) | £302 | £1,702 (516th) | £1,676 (512th) | £1,400 (576th) | £1,400 (joint 504th with 1 other) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £127,978 (556th) | £97,840 (635th) | £110,439 (605th) | £108,073 | £103,668 (596th) | £100,576 (594th) | £88,785 (618th) | £70,844 (593rd) |