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Iain Duncan Smith
Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green
- Also represented Chingford
- Secretary of State, Work and Pensions (since 12 May 2010) (note about dates)
- Entered Parliament on 9 April 1992 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Iain Duncan Smith voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
- Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted strongly against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Treasury, Justice, Health, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Secondments, Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments, Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations, Departmental Secondments, Revenue and Customs: Debt Collection
(based on written questions asked by Iain Duncan Smith and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Employment (20 May 2013)
“There are more than 21 million people in full-time work, and the number has risen by over 600,000 since the general election.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Employment (20 May 2013)
“Yes; this is an intriguing figure. As we have succeeded in enabling people who, when the last Government left office, were inactive but of working age to find employment, the total number of people without jobs has fallen by 380,000 since 2010. That fall has been driven by a fall in the rate of inactivity that was left by the last Government. As a result, the number of people receiving...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Employment (20 May 2013)
“I talk to them regularly, and they talk to me. What I tell them constantly is that the figure for youth unemployment is lower than the figure that we inherited. We have also introduced the youth contract, which provides us with extra money so that we can give many people below the age of 24 a real chance to benefit from work experience programmes and apprenticeships. Many more people will go...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below 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 76.16% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 26 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.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 930 times in debates — well 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 | £0 | £0 | £566 (588th) | £1,528 | £855 (608th) | £9,100 (578th) | £15,740 (joint 505th with 1 other) | £13,620 (466th) |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £940 (118th) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £829 (113th) |
| Office running costs | £15,807 (402nd) | £16,641 (410th) | £15,950 (543rd) | £17,463 | £21,847 (3rd) | £13,307 (600th) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £12,344 (453rd) |
| Staffing costs | £71,628 (610th) | £78,983 (545th) | £79,091 (471st) | £79,980 | £85,699 (13th) | £70,304 (173rd) | £72,243 (32nd) | £54,676 (77th) |
| Communications Allowance | £2,595 (542nd) | £6,593 (391st) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £3,112 (535th)1 | £4,905 (473rd)2 | £5,594 (431st)3 | £4,959 | £4,146 (562nd) | £1,909 (617th) | £0 | £0 |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £52 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £408 (joint 218th with 1 other) | £129 (316th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £10 (111th) | £18 (113th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £1,601 (568th) | £276 (597th) | £296 (joint 607th with 1 other) | £427 | £797 (362nd) | £1,957 (74th) | £3,701 (16th) | £3,145 (16th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £1,291 (joint 510th with 1 other) | £1,616 (475th) | £1,667 | £1,656 (469th) | £4,783 (126th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,257 (joint 253rd with 2 others) | £1,226 (joint 88th with 1 other) | £0 | £1,922 (joint 263rd with 2 others) | £1,922 (joint 259th with 2 others) | £1,922 (joint 253rd with 2 others) | £1,922 (joint 240th with 1 other) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £98,077 (632nd) | £112,905 (618th) | £104,339 (621st) | £106,076 | £116,922 (463rd) | £104,222 (568th) | £113,367 (318th) | £86,536 (373rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £2,807 (293rd). Other: Air £305 (18th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,054 (387th). Rail £2,816 (306th). Other: Rail £35 (166th).