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James Brokenshire
Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup

  • Also represented Hornchurch
  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How James Brokenshire voted on key issues:

  • Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. 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 moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
  • Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
  • Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
  • Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Home Department, Health, Justice, Children, Schools and Families, Transport

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Data Protection, Capita Group, Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse, Departmental ICT, Independent Safeguarding Authority

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Written Answers — Home Department: Animal Welfare (19 Jun 2013)

“Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of these meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Cabinet Office website:...”

Written Answers — Home Department: Capita (19 Jun 2013)

“For the last full financial year, 2012-13, the Home Department's total expenditure on contracts with Capita was £76 million. The Home Department's expenditure on contracts with Capita since financial year 2008-09 is detailed in the following table. Spend figures for the current financial year 2013-14 are not yet available. Financial year £ million 2009-10(1) 58.9 2010-11...”

Written Answers — Home Department: Cybercrime (19 Jun 2013)

“Working in partnership with law enforcement, industry and charities, we have taken significant steps to remove illegal child sexual abuse content from the internet, block access to such material, and to take action against those responsible for it. The UK has a clear process by which criminal images of child sexual abuse can be reported and for websites containing such images to be blocked by...”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 18 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 76.13% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 24 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
  • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 19–20 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
  • 104 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on James Brokenshire’s activity.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 410 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

11. Miscellaneous
I am a non-practising solicitor.

Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

Expenses

Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Staying away from main home£151 (584th) £368 (586th) £0 £0        
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Office running costs£12,872 (508th) £14,589 (472nd) £14,604 (564th) £18,658        
Staffing costs£92,697 (391st) £86,036 (380th) £79,469 (462nd) £61,511        
Communications Allowance£2,871 (531st) £2,746 (joint 537th with 1 other) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£2,253 (571st)1 £2,122 (joint 582nd with 1 other)2 £2,598 (571st)3 £1,586        
Members' Staff Travel£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£2,102 (509th) £668 (joint 378th with 2 others) £920 (308th) £739        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,521 (463rd) £1,494 (503rd) £2,380 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,165 (joint 388th with 1 other) £1,125 (joint 205th with 11 others) £945        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Total£112,946 (613th) £109,215 (622nd) £100,210 (632nd) £85,819        

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £1,800 (371st). Other: Rail £348 (58th). Air £105 (39th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £1,720 (371st). Other: Rail £402 (51st).

3 Car £108 (579th). Rail £850 (436th). Other £1,640 (12th).