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Jason McCartney
Conservative MP for Colne Valley

    • Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Jason McCartney voted on key issues:

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

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Health, Treasury, Defence, Work and Pensions, Home Department

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs, Health Services: Foreign Nationals, Industrial Health and Safety, Hepatitis, Armed Forces: Empty Housing

    (based on written questions asked by Jason McCartney and answered by departments)

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    Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Offending by Probationers (21 May 2013)

    “What steps he plans to take to reduce the number of offences committed by people on probation.”

    Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Offending by Probationers (21 May 2013)

    “I would like to take this opportunity to praise the innovative work that my local Kirklees probation service is doing to bring down offending rates. Rates in West Yorkshire are down by 10% and in Kirklees the reduction is nearly 17%. I spent time with my local service over the Easter recess. What effect will the extension to a minimum of 12 months’ supervision in the community now have?”

    Written Answers — Attorney-General: Prosecutions (21 May 2013)

    “To ask the Attorney-General what measures the police and Crown Prosecution Service are taking to reduce the decision time in choosing to bring a prosecution forward.”

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    Register of Members’ Interests

    2.          Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Payments from ComRes, Four Millbank, London SW1P 3JA:
    Payment of £575 for completing eight opinion surveys between May 2011 and February 2012.  Hours: 4 hrs.  Payment donated to charity. (Registered 17 April 2012)
    Payment of £600 for completing eight opinion surveys between April 2012 and February 2013.  Hours: 4 hrs in total.  Payment donated to charity. (Registered 18 April 2013)
    Payment from Ipsos MORI, 79-81 Borough Road, London SE1 1FY:
    Payment of £150 for opinion survey.  Hours: 1 hr.  Payment donated to charity. (Registered 26 November 2012)
    6.          Overseas visits
    Name of donor:  The European Azerbaijan Society
    Address of donor:  2 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AA
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £3,100, covering costs of flights, accommodation and internal travel
    Destination of visit:  Azerbaijan
    Date of visit:  18-22 July 2012
    Purpose of visit:  to meet local Azeri MPs, the UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, a delegation from the EU Office in Baku and other senior officials, and to visit the British War Memorial and a refugee camp in the region.
    (Registered 26 July 2012)

    Register last updated: 22 Apr 2013. More about the Register

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