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Lindsay Roy
Labour MP for Glenrothes
- Entered Parliament on 7 November 2008 — Byelection
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Lindsay Roy voted on key issues:
- Voted against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Has never voted on replacing Trident. 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 very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted very strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, International Development, Defence, Home Department, Work and Pensions
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Borders: Personal Records, Remploy, Armed Forces: Uniforms, Armed Forces: Pensions, Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
(based on written questions asked by Lindsay Roy and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Superannuation bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (3 out of 12)
- Financial Services Bill Committee (10 out of 14)
- Finance Bill Committee (17 out of 18)
- Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (9 Feb 2012)
“Further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra) about the video games industry, given the success of the film tax credit in the UK, will the Minister reconsider introducing a tax credit for the video games industry, as per his manifesto commitment, to assist innovative businesses such as those in Dundee?”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Big Society (8 Feb 2012)
“Patrick Butler said in The Guardian recently: “For many in the charity world, the Big Society…has become a toxic sign of Government hypocrisy, broken promises and ineptitude”. What are the Government doing to change that?”
- Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Sport: Young People (30 Jan 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what studies his Department has conducted on the effect of participation in sport on levels of youth crime.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 29 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 116 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Responsiveness to messages sent via WriteToThem.com in 2008: Too little data for valid analysis.
- Has voted in 75.53% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — 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 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") 15 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. More about the Register