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Huw Irranca-Davies
Labour MP for Ogmore
- Entered Parliament on 14 February 2002 — Byelection
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Huw Irranca-Davies voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted strongly for introducing ID cards. 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 a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Energy and Climate Change, Health, Treasury, Trade and Industry
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Food Procurement, Departmental Carbon Emissions, Dangerous Dogs, Food Labelling, Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(based on written questions asked by Huw Irranca-Davies and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
- Energy Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Energy Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Flood and Water Management Bill Committee (9 out of 10)
- Marine and Coastal Access Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
- Sale of Student Loans Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- NHS Redress Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Transport (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
- Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill Committee (7 out of 10)
- Gender Recognition Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
- Children Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
- Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Communications Bill Committee (23 out of 25)
- Courts Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
- Police (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (6 out of 9)
- Fireworks Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Enterprise Bill Committee (17 out of 19)
- Police Reform Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Passports (16 May 2013)
“Bore da i chi, Mr Speaker—good morning to you. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has become infamous for U-turns, but now our Eurosceptic Secretary of State has been forced into making an embarrassing EU-turn as a result of the horsemeat scandal. He scrapped the national equine database last year, right in the middle of a tendering process, to save £200,000....”
- Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: North West (16 May 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in the North West of England is attributable to cattle movements from the South West or other areas of high bovine tuberculosis risk.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Measles Outbreak (15 May 2013)
“Will the Minister commend the work of local authorities such as Bridgend working hand in hand with the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg university health board and running drop-in clinics in every school in the constituency? Does he agree with me, a father of three teenage boys, that the very best protection against this disease is for everyone not to be afraid and to turn up to these clinics and get...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 68 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 263 written questions in the last year — well 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 73.27% 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") 489 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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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 | £17,002 (384th) | £19,434 (410th) | £19,006 (421st) | £21,516 | £20,339 (287th) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £19,630 (295th) | £12,337 (505th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £15,064 (427th) | £21,637 (122nd) | £23,915 (124th) | £20,000 | £19,325 (joint 11th with 77 others) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £18,545 (221st) |
| Staffing costs | £95,525 (318th) | £91,779 (129th) | £86,912 (206th) | £79,290 | £70,208 (364th) | £68,023 (joint 228th with 71 others) | £61,980 (joint 397th with 36 others) | £955 (657th) |
| Communications Allowance | £6,227 (434th) | £4,616 (478th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £6,640 (349th)1 | £5,575 (428th)2 | £9,532 (237th)3 | £11,036 | £20,586 (46th) | £18,882 (65th) | £17,737 (81st) | £1,136 (625th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £187 (289th) | £148 (joint 351st with 1 other) | £696 (176th) | £1,021 | £960 (joint 191st with 3 others) | £562 (247th) | £1,187 (133rd) | £0 |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £105 (305th) | £315 (259th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £158 (joint 69th with 1 other) | £109 (82nd) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £1,221 (597th) | £1,260 (139th) | £1,930 (106th) | £1,023 | £2,434 (77th) | £2,084 (57th) | £1,353 (202nd) | £0 |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,500 (101st) | £5,418 (127th) | £2,504 | £10,413 (41st) | £7,972 (42nd) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,335 (joint 142nd with 3 others) | £1,302 (42nd) | £752 | £1,674 (522nd) | £1,674 (513th) | £1,674 (482nd) | £922 (joint 572nd with 1 other) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £6,404 (19th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £142,129 (426th) | £150,708 (258th) | £155,115 (49th) | £137,142 | £145,939 (35th) | £138,329 (40th) | £121,795 (126th) | £33,895 (653rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,187 (169th). Rail £2,453 (318th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,023 (212th). Rail £1,552 (381st).