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Meg Munn
Labour MP for Sheffield, Heeley
- Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
- Majority: 11,370 votes. — 87th 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 Munn voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
- Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
- Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes, speeches
- Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
- Voted moderately for the hunting ban. 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
- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Committees and topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, International Development, Home Department, Education and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): NHS Litigation Authority, St. Helena: Airports, Body Piercing, Pakistan, Disability Living Allowance
(based on written questions asked by Meg Munn and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (9 out of n/a)
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
- Work and Families Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
- Equality Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
- Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
- Children Bill Committee (7 out of n/a)
- Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
- Co-operatives and CommunityBenefit Societies Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
- Finance Bill Committee (11 out of n/a)
- Adoption and Children Bill Committee (18 out of n/a)
- Employee Share Schemes Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
- Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Committee (4 out of n/a)
- Police Reform Bill Committee (9 out of n/a)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: National Autism Strategy (23 Feb 2010) has video
“What progress is being made on preparation of the national autism strategy.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: National Autism Strategy (23 Feb 2010) has video
“I welcome my hon. Friend's answer, and the fact that the strategy will be published shortly. Will it specifically encourage the development of local specialist teams such as the Sheffield Asperger's syndrome service, which is doing excellent work in diagnosis and the provision of support? He will be aware that the National Audit Office has identified such local specialist teams as providing...”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Disability Living Allowance (2 Feb 2010)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether her Department has carried out a disability equality impact assessment on the working age disability living allowance checklist.”
More of Meg Munn's recent appearances
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 20 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 8 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Is a member of 0 select committees (0 as chair).
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 82% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 16 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
- 47 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Meg Munn speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 311 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
6. Overseas visits
26-30 March 2009, to Chile for the Progressive Governance conference. Travel and accommodation paid by Policy Network. (Registered 29 April 2009)
Name of donor: Labour Friends of Israel
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £1,528
Destination of visit: Israel and Palestine
Date of visit: 13-18 September 2009
Purpose of visit: We met with Israeli and Palestinian politicians, community representatives, and visited health and social welfare programmes.
(Registered 23 September2009)
Name of donor: University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
Address of donor: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2675
Destination of visit: Dunedin and Wellington, New Zealand
Date of visit: 7-11 December 2009
Purpose of visit: Keynote speaker at a conference on public policy and guest speaker at a public event. I also visited the New Zealand Parliament and met MPs of various political parties.
(Registered 23 December 2009)
Name of donor: Kurdistan Regional Parliament of Iraq
Address of donor: Kurdistan Parliament, Erbil Kurdistan, Iraq.
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £4700
Destination of visit: Erbil and Suleimaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq.
Date of visit: 4-8 January 2010
Purpose of visit: to give seminars on UK parliamentary procedure; to meet senior politicians, senior Christian leaders, members of Kurdistani trade unions and business people.
(Registered 3 February 2010)
Register last updated: 10 Mar 2010. 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.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (ranking out of 659) | 2003/04 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £22,650 (161st) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,509 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,321 (joint 184th with 2 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £18,009 (joint 2nd with 55 others) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £14,861 (433rd) | £14,631 (470th) | £19,878 (377th) | £18,578 | £16,253 (437th) | £17,651 (493rd) | £18,188 (joint 281st with 1 other) | £18,167 (joint 230th with 1 other) |
| Staffing costs | £80,933 (561st) | £81,047 (516th) | £83,544 (353rd) | £72,094 | £69,449 (398th) | £67,850 (333rd) | £65,596 (joint 179th with 51 others) | £41,906 (472nd) |
| Communications Allowance | £4,211 (496th) | £6,311 (401st) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £7,050 (331st)1 | £8,685 (267th)2 | £9,883 (222nd)3 | £8,201 | £12,301 (260th) | £12,818 (218th) | £12,073 (244th) | £6,849 (373rd) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £548 (143rd) | £494 (joint 211th with 1 other) | £1,034 (joint 120th with 1 other) | £1,850 | £2,591 (34th) | £1,222 (127th) | £1,712 (71st) | £667 (201st) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £1,078 (110th) | £2,052 (60th) | 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 | £6,995 (joint 14th with 2 others) | £1,308 (128th) | £3,326 (41st) | £1,985 | £2,022 (105th) | £1,921 (78th) | £512 (563rd) | £4,655 (3rd) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £5,565 (15th) | £14,882 (14th) | £12,825 | £11,598 (31st) | £10,822 (19th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,180 (joint 358th with 4 others) | £973 (joint 454th with 10 others) | £973 | £1,968 (joint 134th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 127th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 126th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 121st with 10 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £832 (joint 64th with 2 others) | £158 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £138,327 (475th) | £144,356 (361st) | £156,462 (42nd) | £138,173 | £137,084 (88th) | £134,573 (70th) | £119,771 (176th) | £92,221 (229th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,738 (399th). Rail £5,312 (170th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,309 (364th). Rail £6,285 (143rd). Misc £91 (169th).
3 Car £2,580 (356th). Rail £6,462 (115th). European £841 (51st).