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Kwasi Kwarteng
Conservative MP for Spelthorne

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    • Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Kwasi Kwarteng voted on key issues:

    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. 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 against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Voted against a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Transport, Communities and Local Government, Treasury, Health

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Egypt: Politics and Government, Planning, Waste Management, Libya: Politics and Government, Egypt: Elections

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    Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit (1 May 2012)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what timetable he has set for the transfer of responsibilities for administering housing benefit from local authorities to his Department.”

    Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (1 May 2012)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what role he expects local authorities to play in supporting the delivery of universal credit and housing benefit.”

    Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Unauthorised Development (30 Apr 2012)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he plans to increase the powers of local authorities to tackle unauthorised development.”

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    • Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 32 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
    • Has voted in 87.00% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
    • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 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") 34 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Author. Address of publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 36 Soho Square, London W1D 3Q7.
    Consultant to Odey Asset Management, 12 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1K 2ND; giving political advice to asset managers in relation to international and domestic affairs. Remuneration: £10,000. February to August 2011only. (Updated 12 September 2011)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Conservative Middle East Council
    Address of donor: 55 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £1,100
    Destination of visit: Egypt
    Date of visit: 12-16 January 2012
    Purpose of visit: Fact-finding visit including meetings with prominent political figures and HMA James Watt. (Registered 22 February 2012)
    Name of donor:
    3)Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd
    4)Free the Children
    Address of donor:
    3)The Office (SE2), Manor Royal, Crawley RH10 9NU
    4)75 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HS
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value):
    3)Virgin Atlantic paid for return flights London to Nairobi, UK transfers and accommodation and food; value £2,625.55
    4)Free the Children paid for internal return flight Nairobi to Bogani; value £333.18.
    Total cost of trip; £2,958.73
    Destination of visit: Kenya
    Date of visit: 31 August-3 September 2011
    Purpose of visit: to learn about the partnership between Free the Children and Virgin Atlantic, to visit villages in rural Kenya supported by the organizations and for discussions as to how school children in Spelthorne can participate in the Be the Change school.
    (Registered 27 September 2011)
    Name of donor: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Israel
    Address of donor: 9 Yitzhak Rabin Blvd., Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem, 91950
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £1,242
    Destination of visit: Israel
    Date of visit: 18-23 September 2011
    Purpose of visit: fact finding political delegation to Israel and the West Bank.
    (Registered 14 October 2011)
    Name of donor: Government of the United Arab Emirates
    Address of donor: PO Box 31966, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): cost of travel and accommodation; £3,500
    Destination of visit: United Arab Emirates
    Date of visit: 30 March-4 April 2012
    Purpose of visit: to meet with Government Ministers, Members of the Federal National Council and senior business figures in order to build on the bilateral relationship and promote trade and investment ties.
    (Registered 24 April 2012)
    8. Land and Property
    Flat in Bayswater, London, from which rental income is received.

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