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Mark Harper
Conservative MP for Forest of Dean
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Mark Harper voted on key issues:
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. 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 replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
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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: Defence, Work and Pensions, Health, Home Department, Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Afghanistan, Departmental Written Questions, Departmental Disabled Staff, Members: Correspondence, Departmental ICT
(based on written questions asked by Mark Harper and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Equality Bill Committee (20 out of 20)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
- Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee (10 out of 11)
- Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (17 Jun 2013)
“Within the current Home Office structure there is no specific role of Gender Champion for asylum seekers. However, there was a network of Diversity Champions within the former UK Border Agency that included a Gender Champion. This role is currently being considered in light of the recent structural changes in the Home Office. No formal assessment of the effectiveness of these champion roles...”
- Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (17 Jun 2013)
“In its publication, “Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the United Kingdom, adopted by the Committee at its fiftieth session (6- 31 May 2013)”, the United Nations Committee Against Torture recommended that the UK should “Take necessary measures to ensure that vulnerable people and torture survivors are not routed into the Detained Fast Track System,...”
- Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (17 Jun 2013)
“A wide variety of representations are regularly received about asylum matters from non-government organisations. Some of the most recent include a report about the quality of decision making by Amnesty International and a report published by Maternity Action and the Refugee Council about procedures for accommodating destitute asylum seekers who are pregnant. The main means through which...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 29 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 high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 87.73% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 39 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") 804 times in debates — well 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 | 2003/04 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £23,481 (115th) | £22,978 (202nd) | £21,741 (289th) | £21,191 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £19,405 (248th) | £21,262 (160th) | £25,288 (92nd) | £27,524 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £102,519 (93rd) | £84,265 (431st) | £78,112 (498th) | £68,346 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £8,243 (357th) | £9,362 (247th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £8,864 (249th)1 | £7,349 (331st)2 | £9,517 (239th)3 | £7,469 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £131 (321st) | £0 | £59 (406th) | £217 | ||||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £1,789 (54th) | £1,638 (80th) | 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 | £6,507 (87th) | £772 (joint 329th with 1 other) | £929 (joint 304th with 1 other) | £952 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £2,961 (242nd) | £1,670 (464th) | £3,375 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £976 (590th) | £898 (joint 566th with 1 other) | £898 | |||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £170,938 (71st) | £151,563 (246th) | £138,214 (316th) | £129,972 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,792 (393rd). Rail £5,666 (155th). Misc £498 (75th). Other: Mileage £382 (20th). Rail £526 (41st).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,983 (391st). Rail £4,345 (221st). Misc £355 (82nd). Other: Rail £666 (29th).
3 Car £2,373 (381st). Rail £5,806 (145th). Air £1,338 (109th).