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Mark Williams
Liberal Democrat MP for Ceredigion

• 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 Mark Williams voted on key issues:

• Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
• Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
• Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
• Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
• Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
• Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
• Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
• Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
• Voted very strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
• Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
• Voted moderately against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
• Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
• Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
• Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
• Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
• Voted very strongly against a stricter asylum system. votes
• Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
• Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes

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• Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.

Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Home Department, Wales, Work and Pensions

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Sustainable Development, Western Sahara, Morocco, Western Sahara: Politics and Government, Western Sahara: Human Rights

(based on written questions asked by Mark Williams and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Public Bodies Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Wreck Removal Convention Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Marriage (Wales) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Sale of Student Loans Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Children and Young Persons Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Offender Management Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Children and Adoption Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Transport (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Most recent appearances

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Overseas Students (15 May 2013)

“What discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues and others on increasing the accessibility of educational institutions in Wales to students from overseas.”

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Overseas Students (15 May 2013)

“Notwithstanding the Government’s necessary direction of travel on immigration policy as set out in the Queen’s Speech, may I ask my hon. Friend to endorse the work of Aberystwyth university, which plans to treble the number of its overseas students by 2017? That will be essential for the local economy, and for building links with emerging economies throughout the world.”

Upland Sheep Farmers (23 Apr 2013)

“That position was compounded by another point that my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire made, about the burial arrangements and whether the EU burial regulations are robust enough to deal with those very exceptional circumstances. What is the Minister’s view on that?”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 43 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 40 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 74.87% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 5 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 186 times in debates — 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 £4,210 (166th). Rail £10,560 (42nd). Misc £153 (142nd).

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,466 (159th). Rail £7,116 (108th). Misc £90 (171st).

³ Car £4,663 (175th). Rail £6,082 (134th). Air £203 (205th).