This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.
Email me updates on Malcolm Wicks’s activity (no more than once per day)
Malcolm Wicks
Labour MP for Croydon North
- Also represented Croydon North West
- Entered Parliament on 9 April 1992 — General election
- Send a message to your MP (via WriteToThem.com)
- Sign up to HearFromYourMP to get messages from your MP
- Help us add video by matching a speech by Malcolm Wicks
- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Malcolm Wicks voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
Read about how the voting record is decided.
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: Home Department, International Development, Energy and Climate Change, Business, Innovation and Skills, Justice
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Burma: Politics and Government, Nuclear Power: Job Creation, Civil Disorder, Nuclear Power Stations: Construction, Burma: Overseas Aid
(based on written questions asked by Malcolm Wicks and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Terrorist Asset-Freezing Etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
- Pensions Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Local Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Energy Bill Committee (15 out of 15)
- Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Age-Related Payments Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Pensions Bill Committee (21 out of 22)
- Employment Bill Committee (3 out of 17)
- Housing Benefit (Withholding of Payment) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Croydon (2 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were serving in Croydon at the end of January (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 10 — Responsibility for children and young persons (1 Feb 2012)
“It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy), and I shall echo some of his remarks on the child maintenance charge. I have been privileged to be a Member for 20 years, and I have noted that the issue of child maintenance and child support has been a running controversy and a running sore through Parliament and Government during that whole period. I shall...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 10 — Responsibility for children and young persons (1 Feb 2012)
“In general, it is the mothers of Britain—sometimes it is the fathers with care, but it is generally the mothers—who have taken on huge responsibilities. It is the parent who does not pay who is the irresponsible party, and who reneges on his duty to care for his own children. I want a system that can be tough-minded about the fathers who refuse to pay. They are often...”
More of Malcolm Wicks's recent appearances
Numerology
Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)
- Has spoken in 25 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 17 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 62.04% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 48 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.
- 108 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Malcolm Wicks’s activity.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 761 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. More about the Register
View the history of this MP's entries in the Register
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 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £0 | £0 | £0 | £138 | £0 | £0 | £9,000 (596th) | £16,119 (156th) |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £0 | £0 | £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) | £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others) |
| Office running costs | £22,020 (122nd) | £21,003 (175th) | £26,436 (72nd) | £16,875 | £19,118 (211th) | £18,114 (joint 449th with 1 other) | £18,176 (joint 295th with 1 other) | £21,782 (122nd) |
| Staffing costs | £100,372 (148th) | £90,747 (164th) | £87,272 (166th) | £81,209 | £77,511 (joint 87th with 1 other) | £72,873 (74th) | £67,586 (151st) | £47,064 (278th) |
| Communications Allowance | £8,431 (346th) | £9,916 (165th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £487 (627th)1 | £196 (631st)2 | £540 (628th)3 | £64 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £44 (joint 417th with 1 other) | £17 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £5,479 (149th) | £1,600 (75th) | £1,321 (192nd) | £1,440 | £598 (453rd) | £1,202 (184th) | £1,409 (180th) | £939 (joint 359th with 1 other) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,023 (137th) | £2,338 (joint 361st with 1 other) | £3,597 | £1,502 (490th) | £3,529 (204th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,304 (179th) | £749 (613th) | £937 | £1,832 (joint 421st with 2 others) | £1,451 (580th) | £1,451 (564th) | £1,451 (491st) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £2,129 (43rd) | £1,185 (66th) | £0 |
| Total | £139,704 (458th) | £131,601 (516th) | £118,700 (563rd) | £104,277 | £102,179 (602nd) | £100,872 (592nd) | £100,334 (539th) | £88,582 (334th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £455 (545th). Rail £32 (579th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £196 (579th).