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Kevin Barron
Labour MP for Rother Valley
- Entered Parliament on 9 June 1983 — General election
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Kevin Barron voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted very strongly for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. 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 moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Trade and Industry, Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Education and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): NHS, Mining-related Compensation Claims, Coalminers (Compensation), Hospitals: Drugs, Coal Health Claims
(based on written questions asked by Kevin Barron and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Health and Social Care Bill Committee (38 out of 40)
- Mental Capacity Bill Committee (7 out of 12)
- Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
Most recent appearances
- Previous Business – Commons: Select Committee (26 Jan 2012)
“Political and Constitutional Reform: Recall of MPs.
Witnesses: Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP Chair, Standards and Privileges Committee and John Lyon CB, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (10.00 am) Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House, Liam Laurence Smyth, Clerk of the Journals and Michael Carpenter, Speaker's Counsel (10.45 am)”- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Access to Drugs (10 Jan 2012)
“The current pharmaceutical price regulation scheme is able to recognise the fact that pharmaceutical companies based here and developing drugs here should be paid a little bit more for their drugs by the NHS on the basis of their worth for the general economy. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether his proposals for value-based prices will affect that?”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 21 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 11 written questions in the last year — below 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 74.16% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 12 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 635 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Member of Advisory Board and speaking engagements for Centre for Parliamentary Studies (until October 2010), 14 Great College Street, London SW1P 3RX. (Up to £5,000)
Payment of £150 for speech on 10 June 2010. Hours: 45 min. (Registered 19 October 2010)
Fees for completing opinion surveys for ComRes, 4 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA:
£75 for survey, September 2010. Hours: 25 mins. (Fee paid to charity.) (Registered 21 October 2010)
£75 for survey, November 2010. Hours: 25 mins. (Fee paid to charity.) (Registered 25 January 2011)
£75 for telephone interview, December 2010 Hours: 20 mins. (Fee paid to charity.) (Registered 31 January 2011)
£75 for survey, 5 December 2011. Hours: 25 mins. (Fee paid to charity). (Registered 6 December 2011)
Fee of £500 received 29 October 2010, from Westminster Explained, 21 Dartmouth St
London SW1H 9BP, for all day seminar. Fee donated to local charity. (Registered 1 November 2010)
Parliamentary adviser to the Japanese Pharmaceutical Group, 4 Old Bath Road, Sonning, RG4 6TA. (Up to £5,000) All remuneration is donated to charity. The companies in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Group are as follows:
Astellas Ltd
Chugai Pharma Europe Ltd
Daiichi Sankyo UK Ltd
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Europe Ltd
Eisai Ltd
Kowa Pharmaceutical Europe Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Pharma Europe ltd
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd
Takeda
Payment of £3,000 from Japanese Pharmaceutical Group, donated to charity on 26 May 2011. Hours: approximately 20 hours over a year. (Registered 7 June 2011)
Payment of £150 from Britain Thinks, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, for interview. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 6 December 2011)
8. Land and Property
Constituency office in Dinnington.
Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. 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 | £24,006 (joint 1st with 48 others) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,634 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £14,909 (joint 364th with 1 other) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £14,188 (464th) | £12,160 (536th) | £13,036 (580th) | £11,393 | £12,280 (573rd) | £18,796 (joint 213th with 3 others) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £18,157 (232nd) |
| Staffing costs | £85,346 (515th) | £98,254 (32nd) | £94,517 (26th) | £92,675 | £79,320 (51st) | £69,898 (joint 182nd with 10 others) | £67,404 (joint 154th with 7 others) | £48,975 (217th) |
| Communications Allowance | £6,714 (416th) | £8,724 (297th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £6,311 (367th)1 | £9,577 (235th)2 | £9,979 (215th)3 | £9,168 | £13,012 (223rd) | £13,659 (187th) | £17,563 (87th) | £17,111 (37th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £408 (185th) | £274 (293rd) | £203 (324th) | £488 | £485 (joint 281st with 1 other) | £1,500 (101st) | £353 (311th) | £1,016 (133rd) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £681 (167th) | 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 | £472 (632nd) | £377 (549th) | £600 (joint 473rd with 3 others) | £424 | £457 (joint 531st with 2 others) | £271 (604th) | £588 (joint 530th with 1 other) | £1,089 (298th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £565 (607th) | £1,285 (539th) | £1,200 | £0 | £140 (648th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,089 (joint 503rd with 1 other) | £973 (joint 454th with 10 others) | £978 | £1,556 (561st) | £1,556 (545th) | £1,556 (520th) | £1,556 (442nd) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £137,444 (484th) | £154,784 (187th) | £142,703 (221st) | £137,960 | £128,012 (229th) | £126,153 (181st) | £125,420 (65th) | £102,813 (57th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,737 (111th). Rail £1,574 (395th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £7,950 (11th). Rail £1,627 (374th).