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Mr Ivor Caplin
Former Labour MP for Hove
- Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
- Left Parliament on 11 April 2005 — did not stand for re-election
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Mr Ivor Caplin voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. votes
- Has never voted on encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Has never voted on laws to stop climate change. votes
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More on their full record
- Occasionally rebels against their party in their last parliament.
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Defence: Agency Budgets (7 Apr 2005)
“Both civilian and Service personnel data by agency are collated annually at 1 April and presented in Table 2.6 of UK Defence Statistics, a copy of which is held in the Library of the House. Further information on personnel figures is available on the DASA website at http://www.dasa.mod.uk The number of Service personnel employed by agency and location is not collated centrally, although the...”
- Written Answers — Defence: Agency Budgets (7 Apr 2005)
“Total staff costs are published in the agencies' annual report and accounts for the relevant financial years, copies of which are available in the House and from the following agency websites at http://www.qvs.org.uk/and http://www.ppa.mod.uk/. Agency personnel costs on a regional basis are not recorded centrally or by the agency. However, the Queen Victoria school is based solely in...”
- Written Answers — Defence: Advertising Contracts (7 Apr 2005)
“holding answer 2 March 2005 Data on advertising contracts is not recorded by the categories requested and can be identified only from the UK Standard Industrial Classification Code 2003 allocated to the contract. The SIC code is used to record activities and products and is published and approved for use by the Office of National Statistics. Therefore, contracts and their values identified...”
More of Mr Ivor Caplin's recent appearances
Numerology
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- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2005, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 71.99% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- 2 people are tracking this MP.
Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source).
| Type | 2008/09 | 2007/08 | 2006/07 | 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 | £956 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,332 (joint 153rd with 5 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £16,000 (joint 178th with 2 others) | |||
| London costs | £0 | £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) | £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,130 (joint 83rd with 26 others) | |||
| Office running costs | £3,770 | £13,979 (529th) | £18,106 (451st) | £18,212 (joint 253rd with 4 others) | £12,274 (455th) | |||
| Staffing costs | £12,230 | £63,595 (571st) | £67,760 (339th) | £65,055 (307th) | £43,591 (426th) | |||
| Communications Allowance | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £459 | £13,813 (183rd) | £11,474 (268th) | £13,182 (197th) | £9,850 (230th) | |||
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £137 (joint 400th with 2 others) | £145 (391st) | £186 (joint 383rd with 1 other) | £74 (419th) | |||
| Members' Spouse Travel | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £61 | £703 (403rd) | £713 (joint 398th with 1 other) | £1,011 (329th) | £1,490 (173rd) | |||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | N/A | N/A | £300 | £2,205 (374th) | £3,354 (222nd) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £0 | £1,987 (joint 90th with 2 others) | £1,987 (joint 84th with 2 others) | £1,987 (joint 83rd with 2 others) | £1,987 (joint 81st with 2 others) | |||
| Other Costs | £26,784 | £60 (99th) | £3,688 (29th) | £0 | £0 | |||
| Total | £44,560 | £118,999 (420th) | £129,133 (131st) | £120,882 (147th) | £86,396 (375th) |
