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Kate Hoey
Labour MP for Vauxhall
- Entered Parliament on 15 June 1989 — unknown
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Kate Hoey voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
- Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted strongly against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. 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 laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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- Quite often rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Culture Media and Sport, Home Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Health, Trade and Industry
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Zimbabwe, European Constitution, Departmental Staff, Playing Fields, Correspondence
(based on written questions asked by Kate Hoey and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Rights of Savers Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Identity Cards Bill Committee (5 out of 8)
- Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill Committee (0 out of 3)
- Promotion of Volunteering Bill Committee (3 out of 4)
- Retirement Income Reform Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Housing Benefit (Withholding of Payment) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
- National Lottery (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 10 — Responsibility for children and young persons (1 Feb 2012)
“Would the Minister like to visit one or two people who I know in my constituency? It is only across the river. They are elderly people with one extra bedroom who have lived where they live all their lives. Their children have moved outside London because they cannot get housing here, but they occasionally visit with the grandchildren. This is just unbelievable—it is genuinely...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 93 — Benefit cap (1 Feb 2012)
“Although most of us agree that there should be a cap, does the Minister not accept that the situation is different for people living in different parts of the United Kingdom? Costs are different, so common sense says that the cap should be different.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Informal European Council (31 Jan 2012)
“How does the Prime Minister feel about attending a European Council of a supposedly democratic EU when the leaders of two of the countries not only have not been elected, but were more or less imposed by the bureaucracy in Brussels? Does he not feel seriously that we are moving more and more away from a democratic Europe, and that this is why the people of this country, ultimately, will have...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 33 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 57 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 50.98% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 11 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") 436 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. More about the Register
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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 | £6,511 (630th) | £4,261 (641st) | £10,723 (614th) | £13,295 | £12,227 (575th) | £4,658 (654th) | £11,147 (609th) | £3,757 (639th) |
| Staffing costs | £81,129 (559th) | £81,010 (517th) | £78,750 (481st) | £84,852 | £75,367 (133rd) | £64,745 (451st) | £62,669 (383rd) | £45,995 (323rd) |
| Communications Allowance | £9,837 (250th) | £4,552 (480th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £2,033 (580th)1 | £2,186 (581st)2 | £2,784 (562nd)3 | £2,560 | £5,599 (514th) | £5,093 (517th) | £5,141 (joint 523rd with 1 other) | £4,374 (495th) |
| 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 | £5,051 (183rd) | £1,031 (joint 208th with 1 other) | £1,044 (266th) | £785 | £1,179 (242nd) | £873 (joint 316th with 3 others) | £1,023 (323rd) | £1,950 (77th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,637 (164th) | £3,688 (220th) | £2,008 | £2,585 (320th) | £2,756 (294th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,188 (345th) | £1,065 (joint 305th with 9 others) | £729 | £1,404 (603rd) | £1,404 (591st) | £1,404 (573rd) | £1,404 (502nd) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £8,039 (16th) | £2,202 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £107,477 (619th) | £100,677 (632nd) | £108,805 (610th) | £109,044 | £99,979 (621st) | £81,103 (649th) | £82,911 (638th) | £58,707 (645th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,954 (376th). Other: Rail £79 (115th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,186 (377th).