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Louise Mensch
Former Conservative MP for Corby
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
- Left Parliament on 29 August 2012 — Resigned
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Louise Mensch voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in their last parliament.
Most recent appearances
- House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 Jul 2012)
“My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way again. If he believes that people should be elected and should be accountable to the electorate, will he not reject a system whereby people are elected for a 15-year term, but never have to face the electorate ever again?”
- House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 Jul 2012)
“Does my hon. Friend recognise that we recently had a referendum on changing the voting system for the Westminster Parliament, which the public overwhelmingly rejected? Is not the Bill an attempt to introduce that through the back door?”
- House of Lords Reform Bill: [1st Allocated Day] (9 Jul 2012)
“Will my hon. Friend give way?”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 13 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 7 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 74.79% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 2 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
- 87 people are tracking this MP.
- 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
Payments received via literary agent (The Peter Fraser and Dunlop Group Limited, Drury House, 34-43 Russell St, London WC2B 5HA).
Payments received from Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society Ltd (ALCS), The Writers’ House, 13 Haydon St, London EC3N 1DB:
Received £89.10 for royalties for work completed. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 6 October 2011)
Received £20.25. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 13 December 2011)
Received £109.52. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 12 March 2012)
Received £2,101.18 Hours: none (sale of completed work) (Registered 3 April 2012)
Received £1,620. Address of payer: Hat Trick Productions, 33 Oval Road, London NW1 7EA. Hours: 30 minutes television appearance. (Registered 11 May 2011)
Received £769.24. Address of payer: Wydawnictwo Trzecia Noga, Poland. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 26 August 2011)
Received £290.40 for article. Address of payer: The Daily Telegraph, 11 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. (Registered 26 August 2011)
Received £777.73. Address of payer: ISIS Publishing Ltd, Unit 7 Centremead, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 19 October 2011)
Received £256.83. Address of payer: Hermes Publishing House Andrew Nurnberg Associates – Sofia 1111 Bulgaria. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 3 February 2012)
Received £778.83. Address of payer: Hermes Publishing House Andrew Nurnberg Associates – Sofia 1111 Bulgaria. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 22 February 2012)
Received £2,161.16. Address of payer: ISIS Publishing Limited, Unit 7, Centre Mead, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 16 March 2012)
Payments received from Headline Publishing Group, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH:
Received £320.81. Hours: none (sale of completed works). (Registered 11 May 2011)
Received £41,250. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 15 August 2011)
Payments received from The Sun (News International), 3 Thomas More Square, London E98 1XY:
Received £638 for two articles. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 15 August 2011)
Received £843.87. Address of payer: Hermes, 59 Bogomil Street, Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria. Hours: none (sale of completed work). (Registered 15 August 2011)
Received £82 for appearance. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 15 August 2011)
Received £102 for TV appearance. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 6 October 2011)
Received £150 for appearance. Address of payer: Mentorn Media, Elsinore House, 77 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JA. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 15 August 2011)
7. Overseas benefits and gifts
See payments in Category 2 above.
9. Shareholdings
50% holding in MenschBozier Ltd, a website development company. (Registered 2 April 2012)
Register last updated: 30 Apr 2012. More about the Register