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Liam Byrne
Labour MP for Birmingham, Hodge Hill
- Entered Parliament on 15 July 2004 — Byelection
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Liam Byrne voted on key issues:
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Work and Pensions, Treasury, Home Department, Health, Education and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Universal Credit, Social Security Benefits, Housing Benefit, Employment Schemes, Departmental Public Expenditure
(based on written questions asked by Liam Byrne and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- UK Borders Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
- Gambling Bill Committee (2 out of 14)
- Road Safety Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
- Mental Capacity Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
- Gambling Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (20 May 2013)
“Can the Secretary of State give the House his personal forecast for when this year’s allocation for the discretionary housing payment fund will run out?”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Topical Questions (20 May 2013)
“Let me tell the Secretary of State the point of the question: across the country discretionary housing payment fund money is about to run out. In my home city of Birmingham applications are up five times on last year. That policy means that in places such as the north-east three-bedroom houses are now standing empty because people cannot afford to move in. There are now 53,000 households in...”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes: Young People (16 May 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when statistics for the Youth Contract wage subsidy scheme will be released; (2) how many employers have received wage subsidy payments under the Youth Contract since April 2012.”
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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 121 written questions in the last year — well 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 56.06% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 30 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well 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") 489 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
17 May 2010, received advance of £615 for book from Capel and Land Literary Agents Ltd. Address: 29 Wardour St, London W1D 6PS. Hours: none so far. (Registered 28 March 2013)
Payments for teaching received from Oxford University Said Business School, University of Oxford, OX1 5NY:
Received £625 for teaching on 4 May 2012. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 28 March 2013)
Received £637 for teaching on 10 July 2012. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 28 March 2013)
Received £1,525.90 for teaching on 31 December 2012. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 28 March 2013)
4. Sponsorships
(a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by my party to the Electoral Commission:
(a) Name of donor: Hodge Hill CLP
(a) Address of donor: c/o 35a Coleshill Road, Birmingham B36 8DT
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,399 raised at a fundraising event for the benefit of Hodge Hill CLP. The total included no registrable donations.
(a) Donor status: unincorporated association.
(a) (Registered 20 July 2012 )
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Address of donor : 204 Cockspur St, London SW1Y 5DH
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 2 tickets to the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics Games on 29 August 2012; value £1,000, plus hospitality at official reception before the event
Date of receipt of donation: 17 August 2012
Date of acceptance of donation: 21 August 2012
Donor status: Government Department
(Registered 20 September 2012)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Great Britain China Centre
Address of donor: 5 Belgrave Square, London SW1 8PS
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £5,298
Destination of visit: Beijing, China
Date of visit: 11-16 March 2012
Purpose of visit: To attend Wilton Park seminar in Beijing
(Registered 20 July 2012)
Name of donor: Swedish Social Democratic Party/Socialdemokraterna
Address of donor: SE-105 60, Stockholm, Sweden
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): flights costing £795.18, hotel accommodation costing £232.97 and £80 (estimated) for food, total approx £1,108.15
Destination of visit: Stockholm, Sweden
Date of visit: 16-17 September 2012
Purpose of visit: to attend a political conference
(Registered 9 October 2012 )
Name of donor: (1) Labour Friends of Israel; (2) Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Address of donor: (1) BM LFI, London W1N 3XX; (2) 9 Yitzhak Rabin Boulevard, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem 91035, Israel
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): (1) flights and other costs with a total value of £2,160; (2) transportation within Israel with a value of £90. Some hospitality also provided by the Portland Trust.
Destination of visit: The Palestinian territories and Israel
Date of visit: 7-11 October 2012
Purpose of visit: Hi tech industry fact-finding visit. (Registered 31 October 2012)
Name of donor:
1)UK-China Forum (UKCF) Ltd, with sponsorship support from BP, Barclays and Rolls Royce.
2)International Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC)
Address of donor:
1)UKCF, 15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS
2)IDCPC, 4 Fuxing Lu, Beijing 100860, China
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value):
1)Business class flights paid by UKCF; cost £2,907
2)Hotel and food paid by IDCPC; cost £376
Destination of visit: Beijing, China
Date of visit: 12-18 January 2013
Purpose of visit: to attend a fact finding visit in Beijing.
(Registered 11 February 2013)
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. 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 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £22,963 (147th) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,500 | £15,164 (485th) | |||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Office running costs | £25,970 (39th) | £20,273 (223rd) | £19,406 (408th) | £21,100 | £16,387 (433rd) | |||
| Staffing costs | £96,399 (292nd) | £91,461 (136th) | £88,219 (110th) | £81,081 | £51,307 (642nd) | |||
| Communications Allowance | £10,271 (208th) | £9,576 (225th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £5,991 (379th)1 | £6,839 (360th)2 | £6,336 (379th)3 | £5,110 | £6,139 (493rd) | |||
| Members' Staff Travel | £134 (319th) | £353 (joint 253rd with 1 other) | £338 (262nd) | £489 | £269 (336th) | |||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £113 (301st) | £692 (162nd) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £167 (67th) | £435 (45th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £6,717 (73rd) | £2,519 (7th) | £10,992 (2nd) | £7,548 | £8,416 (6th) | |||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,394 (113th) | £28,170 (2nd) | £18,212 | £22,427 (8th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £2,721 (1st) | £2,545 (2nd) | £1,948 | £1,179 (634th) | ||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £1,678 (joint 62nd with 1 other) | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Total | £168,725 (85th) | £164,024 (59th) | £178,116 (2nd) | £156,988 | £121,288 (373rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,208 (469th). Rail £4,752 (195th). Misc £31 (218th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,856 (402nd). Rail £4,566 (203rd). Misc £417 (76th).