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Heather Wheeler
Conservative MP for South Derbyshire

    • Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Heather Wheeler voted on key issues:

    • Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
    • Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
    • Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
    • Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Health, Culture Media and Sport, Treasury

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Egypt, Sports: Clubs, Herbal Medicine: Regulation, Venture Capital, Milk: Prices

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    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Written Answers — Treasury: Venture Capital (15 Apr 2013)

    “To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment he has made of the amount of funding invested in small and medium-sized enterprises through venture capital trusts since their introduction; and what assessment he has made of future trends in such investment; (2) what assessment he has made of the number of jobs to be created in small and medium-sized enterprises as a result of...”

    Tributes to Baroness Thatcher (10 Apr 2013)

    “I represent an old mining area, and, as folk might imagine, some of the e-mails that I have received have been quite lively. However, I have been reminded that unemployment in my area is now 2.8%. The old mines have gone. People remember the difficulties that arose between the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, whose members did not strike, and the National Union of Mineworkers, whose members...”

    Royal Assent: Rail Franchising (26 Mar 2013)

    “I congratulate my right hon. Friend on today’s statement, particularly the great news about Ilkeston station, which will immediately transform and regenerate the area by providing connectivity. Is this the new dawn for the National Forest line—the old Ivanhoe line; can we look forward to that, too?”

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    Numerology

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    • Has spoken in 34 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 7 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
    • Has voted in 84.27% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below 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.
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    • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 41 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Surveys completed for ComRes, Four Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. Payments donated to South Derbyshire Conservative Association:
    August 2011, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    November 2011, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    December 2011, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    January 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    January 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    February 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    May 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25July 2012)
    June 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    July 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    August 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 7 September 2012)
    November 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 11 December 2012)
    November 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 18 December 2012)
    December 2012, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 10 January 2013)
    February 2013, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 6 March 2013)
    March 2013, £75. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 3 April 2013)
    Surveys completed for Ipsos MORI, 79-81 Borough Road, London SE1 1FY:
    January 2012, payment of £150. donated to South Derbyshire Conservative Association.  Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 25 July 2012)
    October 2012, payment of £150. donated to South Derbyshire Conservative Association.  Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 29 October 2012)
    Surveys completed for Populus Ltd, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0AT:
    July 2012, payment of £75 donated to South Derbyshire Conservative Association.  Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 24 August 2012)
    Surveys completed for YouGov plc, 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT:
    July 2012, payment of £70 donated to South Derbyshire Conservative Association.  Hours: 15 mins. (Registered 20 August 2012)
    4. Sponsorships
    (a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by my party to the Electoral Commission:
    (a) Name of donor: Richard A Perkins
    (a) Address of donor: private
    (a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000
    (a) Donor status: individual
    (a) (Registered 28 January 2013)
    (a) Name of donor: JCB Research Ltd
    (a) Address of donor: Rocester, Staffs ST14 5JP
    (a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
    (a) Donor status: company
    (a) (Registered 3 April 2013)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Jordanian House of Representatives
    Address of donor: Al Umah Street, Amman, Jordan
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2,029.45 (covering travel costs, accommodation, subsistence and internal tours)
    Destination of visit: Jordan
    Date of visit: 8 to 13 April 2012
    Purpose of visit: Delegation of All-Party Parliamentary Jordan Group
    (Registered 8 May 2012)
    Name of donor: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with important (unquantified) contributions from Japan, Denmark and Switzerland.
    Address of donor: 605 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10158 USA
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £935, comprising flights with a value of £111, £129 per diem and accommodation with a value of £695
    Destination of visit: Istanbul, Turkey
    Date of visit: 23-26 May 2012
    Purpose of visit: to attend EPF Council meeting on 23 May 2012 and International Parliamentary Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action on 24-25 May 2012.
    (Registered 8 June 2012)
    Name of donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)
    Address of donor: c/o Taipei Representative Office in the UK, 50 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0EB
    Amount of donation : £3,600, which includes £2,500 for travel to and from Taiwan, £200 for travel within the country, £700 for accommodation and £200 for meals
    Destination of visit: Taipei City and Taoyuan County
    Date of visit: 18 - 22 May 2012
    Purpose of visit: part of a parliamentary delegation at the invitation of the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
    (Registered 21 June 2012)
    Name of donor: Results UK
    Address of donor: 31-33 Bondway, London SW8 1SJ
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): flights, in-country transport, accommodation and meals with a total value of £1,472
    Destination of visit: Ethiopia
    Date of visit: 16-21 February 2013
    Purpose of visit: To study the impact of tuberculosis and child health.
    (Registered 6 March 2013)
    8. Land and Property
    Holiday cottage in France. (Registered 14 November 2012)

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