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Meg Hillier

Labour MP for Hackney South & Shoreditch

• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office (since 12 Nov 2009)

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
• Majority: 10,204 votes. — 103rd out of 643 MPs.

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• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Meg Hillier voted on key issues since 2001:

• Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against laws to stop climate change. votes, speeches

Read about how the voting record is decided.

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

• Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.

Committees and topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Health, Work and Pensions, Transport, Home Department, Deputy Prime Minister

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Benefits, Apprenticeships, Turkey, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Hospitals, Road Safety Targets

(based on written questions asked by Meg Hillier and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of n/a)
• Financial Mutuals Arrangements Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Pensions Bill Committee (10 out of n/a)
• Mental Health Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)
• London Olympics Bill Committee (4 out of n/a)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of n/a)
• Education and Inspections Bill Committee (21 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Fraud (8 Feb 2010)

“The Government are working with a number of agencies to tackle identify fraud and advise the public. This is coupled with our continuing roll-out of identity cards and, in future, modern passports, to provide people with a highly secure means of protecting and proving their identity.”

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Fraud (8 Feb 2010)

“We have no intention of introducing any further legislation because we believe we have the tools in law to deal with this issue, and we already have the identity fraud communications awareness group, a multi-agency group that works to highlight the challenges of identity fraud. I should also reiterate my point that we are rolling out a programme of more secure identity cards and passports,...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Identity Fraud (8 Feb 2010)

“I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on leading some of the work on this matter as chair of the all-party group on identity fraud, and I agree with him that online fraud is a big problem. However, I disagree with him on other things, because ID cards can be a major way of tackling such fraud. In Germany and Belgium, ID cards are often used as a way of proving age online, and that in itself can...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 9 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• Is a member of 0 select committees (0 as chair).
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 70% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 22 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.
• 247 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Meg Hillier speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 180 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Nil

Register last updated: 6 Jan 2010. 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.

² Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £928 (445th).

³ Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £968 (460th).

¹ 3rd party £31 (46th). Rail £923 (425th). European £515 (89th).