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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 replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. 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
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Work and Pensions, Home Department, Health, Treasury, Education and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Universal Credit, Social Security Benefits, Departmental Public Expenditure, Welfare State: Reform, Employment Schemes
(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)
- Gambling Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- Mental Capacity Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 93 — Benefit cap (1 Feb 2012)
“On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. This has been an important debate, yet the Government have ensured that no time was available to discuss Labour’s amendment and to put it to the vote before the knife fell at 5 o’clock. They declared financial privilege on the amendment in order to stop it being debated in the House of Lords. What advice would you give me, Mr Deputy Speaker,...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 93 — Benefit cap (1 Feb 2012)
“The hon. Gentleman is very generous and I am grateful for his compliments. But he must accept that Ministers have so badly thought this policy through that they have had to face the indignity of coming to this House and promising to spend £130 million solving a problem that they have told us for the last year would never present itself.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 93 — Benefit cap (1 Feb 2012)
“I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman felt the need to add that rejoinder. There is already a very localised dimension to the benefits system: housing benefit. We have had a localised housing benefits system for about 70 years, and that is why the amendment states that, if we are to have a different solution for London, compared with the rest of the country, it is housing benefit differences...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 17 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 141 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 58.79% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 28 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") 415 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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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).