This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.

Email me updates on Martin Horwood’s activity (no more than once per day)

Martin Horwood
Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

• Send a message to your MP (via WriteToThem.com)
• Sign up to HearFromYourMP to get messages from your MP
• Help us add video by matching a speech by Martin Horwood

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

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Martin Horwood voted on key issues:

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

Read about how the voting record is decided.

More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Quite often rebels against their party in this parliament.

Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Energy and Climate Change, Home Department, Transport, Trade and Industry

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Consultants, Departmental Expenditure, Departmental Tendering Policy, Departmental Paper, Electronic Equipment: Waste Disposal

(based on written questions asked by Martin Horwood and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Flood and Water Management Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Energy Bill Committee (15 out of 15)
• Climate Change Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Police and Justice Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
• Charities Bill Committee (9 out of 9)

Most recent appearances

European Union Documents: Syria (EU Restrictive Measures) (21 May 2013)

“Let me start with a note of criticism that relates not to our policy on Syria but to the scrutiny of European documents in this place. The Council decision was taken on 28 February and referred to this Chamber by the European Scrutiny Committee back in March. It is now nearly June; in fact, the three-month arms embargo to which the decision referred has nearly finished. This is not a...”

European Union Documents: Syria (EU Restrictive Measures) (21 May 2013)

“Is not the weakness in the argument that the arms may fall into the hands of the wrong people the fact not just that we can never give such guarantees, but, above all, that the wrong people already have plenty of sophisticated arms, which are being supplied perfectly legally from Russia, Qatar, Iran and everywhere else because there is no UN arms embargo?”

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Syria (20 May 2013)

“I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s remarks, including those relating to the EU arms embargo. Does he agree that the negotiated political solution that we all want would become less likely if either the murderous Assad regime or the extremist jihadi militants believe that they can defeat those fighting for democracy and win by force and terror alone?”

More of Martin Horwood's recent appearances

RSS feed (?)

Numerology

Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)

• Has spoken in 80 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 52 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 73.71% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 8 annotations on this MP’s speeches — average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 149 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Martin Horwood’s activity.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 426 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

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

View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

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: Rail £6,110 (139th). Misc £174 (133rd).

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £6,133 (147th). Misc £90 (171st).

³ Car £49 (582nd). Rail £5,093 (169th). Other £18 (65th).