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Maria Miller
Conservative MP for Basingstoke

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

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• Voting record
• Topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Maria Miller voted on key issues:

• Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
• Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
• Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
• Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
• Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
• Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
• Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
• Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
• Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
• Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
• Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
• Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
• Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
• Has never voted on a stricter asylum system. votes
• Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
• Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
• Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes

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• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Children, Schools and Families, Health, Transport, Work and Pensions, Home Department

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Children: Day Care, Pre-School Education, Child Support Agency, Pre-School Education: Finance, Sure Start Programme

(based on written questions asked by Maria Miller and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (24 out of 26)
• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill Committee (11 out of 18)
• Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• London Olympics Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Children and Adoption Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
• Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Equality Bill Committee (2 out of 8)

Most recent appearances

Written Ministerial Statements — Culture Media and Sport: Balance of Competences (16 May 2013)

“Further to the oral statement by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), launching the review of the balance of competences on 12 July 2012, Official Report, column 468, and his written ministerial statement on the progress of the review on 23 October 2012, Official Report, column 46WS, we are today...”

Public Service Pensions Bill: Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (22 Apr 2013)

“As always, my right hon. Friend cuts to the quick with a question that is important to many of us. If he examines the detail of our provisions and exemptions, and the Leveson report, he will see that the intention behind everything that we are doing is to focus self-regulation on those who publish news. I do not believe that any political party or MP intends primarily to publish news. That...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 28 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 81.31% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 41 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") 472 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Nil

Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

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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.

¹ Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,026 (270th). Rail £276 (533rd). Misc £58 (191st). Other: Mileage £268 (25th). Rail £231 (73rd).

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £5,142 (91st). Rail £333 (512th). Misc £45 (203rd). Other: European £410 (116th).

³ Car £3,772 (260th). Rail £917 (426th). European £1,329 (25th).