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Mark Garnier
Conservative MP for Wyre Forest
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Mark Garnier voted on key issues:
- Voted for replacing Trident. 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 for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Justice, Education, Business, Innovation and Skills, Home Department, Defence
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Financial Services: Education, Navy, Courts: Closures, Leukaemia, Money Advice Service
(based on written questions asked by Mark Garnier and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Financial Services Bill Committee (18 out of 18)
- Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (12 out of 14)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Health: Cancer: Drugs (22 Apr 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the Cancer Drugs Fund, as announced by the NHS Commissioning Board, whether access to some treatments previously available through the fund will be restricted.”
- Written Answers — Health: Leukaemia (22 Apr 2013)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he has taken to ensure that those diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia have access to a wide range of treatment options, including Dasatinib’ (2) what recent discussions he has had to ensure that those diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia have access to a wide range of treatment options, including Dasatinib.”
- [1st Allocated Day]: Clause 200 — Bank Levy: rates from January 2013 (17 Apr 2013)
“The hon. Gentleman is making a very powerful point. However, that is exactly why some of us have spent the past nine months on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards examining the problems he is talking about. It is why the Government introduced the Financial Services Act 2012 in order to repair the regulatory environment and to establish the Financial Policy Committee to look at...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 21 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 21 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 83.12% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above 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 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") 66 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register