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Margaret Hodge
Labour MP for Barking
- Entered Parliament on 19 June 1994 — unknown
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Margaret Hodge voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very 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 a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. 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 strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Work and Pensions, Culture Media and Sport, Communities and Local Government, Business, Innovation and Skills, Prime Minister
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Public Appointments, Affordable Housing: Barking, Employment Schemes: Barking and Dagenham, Crisis Loans: Barking and Dagenham, Access to Work Programme
(based on written questions asked by Margaret Hodge and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Company Law Reform Bill Committee (22 out of 22)
- Children Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Tax Avoidance (Public Servants) (2 Feb 2012)
“I welcome the commitment that has been made to review the arrangements relating to this individual and to review whether such things happen anywhere else across Government. Will the Minister agree to publish the complete list of senior civil servants whom the Government pay through companies when he completes his review by the end of March? In particular, will he report to the House on the...”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment: Barking and Dagenham (24 Jan 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people aged 18 to 24 in Barking and Dagenham were placed in employment by Jobcentre Plus in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009 and (e) 2010.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: EU Council (12 Dec 2011)
“Any politician with experience of doing business in Europe knows that you never go to a key European meeting without having done extensive and thorough preparatory work, so that as you walk in you are pretty much sure of the outcome you will get. Either the Prime Minister did not bother to do the preparatory work, and betrayed Britain’s long-term interests through sheer incompetence, or...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 9 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 16 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 59.47% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 23 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") 565 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 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £2,712 (joint 1st with 46 others) | £2,613 | £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 | £22,744 (92nd) | £24,767 (59th) | £20,406 (316th) | £23,167 | £13,937 (530th) | £18,625 (378th) | £17,745 (420th) | £9,962 (524th) |
| Staffing costs | £97,244 (264th) | £85,976 (382nd) | £87,276 (joint 156th with 7 others) | £84,078 | £76,502 (111th) | £74,702 (52nd) | £65,074 (304th) | £46,153 (311th) |
| Communications Allowance | £13,677 (43rd) | £11,018 (74th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £930 (618th)1 | £1,184 (609th)2 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £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 | £6,994 (joint 17th with 2 others) | £1,869 (40th) | £8,023 (5th) | £2,594 | £944 (joint 309th with 1 other) | £1,168 (joint 194th with 1 other) | £1,402 (182nd) | £833 (398th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,430 (108th) | £26,689 (3rd) | £12,490 | £4,980 (139th) | £6,308 (66th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,199 (joint 326th with 5 others) | £1,195 (122nd) | £1,014 | £1,401 (joint 605th with 1 other) | £1,401 (joint 592nd with 1 other) | £1,401 (joint 574th with 1 other) | £1,071 (546th) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £907 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £1,119 (42nd) |
| Total | £144,505 (387th) | £133,255 (495th) | £146,301 (145th) | £126,863 | £99,382 (624th) | £103,778 (574th) | £87,149 (625th) | £60,365 (643rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £930 (503rd).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,184 (499th).