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Karen Buck
Labour MP for Westminster North
- Also represented Regent's Park and Kensington North
- Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Karen Buck voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted strongly for the hunting ban. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Work and Pensions, Communities and Local Government, Education and Skills, Treasury, Home Department
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Housing Benefit, Social Security Benefits, Social Rented Housing, Homelessness, Housing
(based on written questions asked by Karen Buck and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (26 out of 26)
- Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Holocaust (Stolen Art) Restitution Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Child Poverty Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
- Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Climate Change Bill Committee (9 out of 10)
- Greater London Authority Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Civil Aviation Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Housing Bill Committee (14 out of 19)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Homelessness Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
- Tax Credits Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
- Tax Credits Committee (2 out of 2)
- Homes Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Homelessness: City of Westminster (16 Apr 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what explanation Westminster City Council has given to his Department for not providing a statistical return detailing the number of homeless families with children in bed and breakfast accommodation on 31 December 2012; (2) what explanation Westminster City Council has given to his Department for not giving a...”
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Homelessness: Greater London (16 Apr 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what steps the Housing Minister agreed to take following his meeting on 4 December 2012 with those local authorities most severely affected by the rising number of homeless people in London; (2) if he will be holding a follow-up to his meeting on 4 December 2012 on the rising number of homeless people in London with...”
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Homelessness (10 Apr 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of all homelessness (a) applications and (b) acceptances were from black, Asian and minority ethnic households in (i) 2001-02 and (ii) 2011-12 in each English region.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 26 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 66 written questions in the last year — above 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 69.18% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 18 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 389 times in debates — above 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.
| 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 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £2,712 (joint 1st with 46 others) | £2,613 | £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) | £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others) |
| Office running costs | £22,131 (116th) | £18,720 (307th) | £20,448 (288th) | £19,909 | £17,510 (383rd) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £18,226 (joint 218th with 4 others) | £16,217 (297th) |
| Staffing costs | £98,509 (217th) | £92,761 (108th) | £87,264 (joint 169th with 1 other) | £84,172 | £79,342 (50th) | £74,686 (53rd) | £72,310 (joint 1st with 23 others) | £52,981 (103rd) |
| Communications Allowance | £9,965 (242nd) | £9,686 (joint 207th with 1 other) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £948 (616th)1 | £1,077 (613th)2 | £954 (619th)3 | £763 | £867 (640th) | £835 (642nd) | £906 (640th) | £756 (joint 634th with 1 other) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £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 | £6,999 (joint 3rd with 4 others) | £2,591 (6th) | £3,926 (26th) | £3,062 | £1,823 (joint 128th with 1 other) | £2,640 (33rd) | £2,328 (46th) | £2,476 (joint 37th with 1 other) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,405 (111th) | £8,385 (51st) | £7,878 | £2,520 (326th) | £8,549 (34th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,182 (355th) | £1,061 (317th) | £1,057 | £1,822 (joint 433rd with 2 others) | £1,822 (joint 426th with 2 others) | £1,822 (joint 407th with 2 others) | £1,822 (371st) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £3,911 (47th) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £141,467 (434th) | £133,234 (496th) | £124,750 (513th) | £119,454 | £109,413 (555th) | £108,905 (525th) | £97,119 (569th) | £75,479 (539th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £948 (464th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £1,077 (430th).