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John Penrose
Conservative MP for Weston-Super-Mare

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

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• Voting record
• Topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How John Penrose voted on key issues:

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

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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Business, Innovation and Skills, Home Department, Health, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Education and Skills

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Members: Correspondence, Speed Cameras, National Employer Training Programme, Consumer Credit: Licensing, Departmental Finance

(based on written questions asked by John Penrose and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [LORDS] Committee (1 out of 1)
• Live Music Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Equality Bill Committee (19 out of 20)
• Finance Bill Committee (15 out of 24)
• Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee (7 out of 11)
• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Pensions Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (8 out of 12)
• Rights of Savers Bill Committee (1 out of 2)

Most recent appearances

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bee Population (16 May 2013)

“Speaking as a beekeeper myself, is the Secretary of State aware of the extreme disappointment of the British Beekeepers Association, of which I am a member, at the recent EU ban on neonicotinoid insecticides and the very grave concern that as a result farmers will go back to older, and more damaging, insecticides and that the health of Britain’s bees could therefore inadvertently be...”

Cost of Living (14 May 2013)

“I am pleased to hear that my right hon. Friend is interested in promoting competition, particularly in the retail and wholesale markets. Does he agree that there may also be significant opportunities, not just in the energy sector, but more broadly across the other utility sectors too, in reducing the infrastructure costs of the transmission network—be they wires or pipes for water,...”

Planning and Regeneration — [Jim Dobbin in the Chair] (26 Feb 2013)

“I may be pre-empting the Minister’s next remark, but I urge him to think a little more radically. I welcome the measures and steps that he describes as having already been taken. In some cases, because buildings were designed for a different purpose 100 or 150 years ago, it is not possible to retrofit them in a way that delivers the additional potential uses as accommodation, offices or...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 10 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 1 written question in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 80.18% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 22 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 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") 165 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

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.

¹ Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,819 (286th). Rail £1,507 (405th). Misc £17 (234th).

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,480 (465th). Rail £2,969 (292nd). Misc £13 (244th).

³ Car £1,548 (478th). Rail £2,473 (299th). Other £12 (69th).