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Miss Melanie Johnson
Former Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield

    • Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
    • Left Parliament on 11 April 2005 — General election (stood again)

      Voting record (from PublicWhip)

      How Miss Melanie Johnson voted on key issues since 2001:

      • Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
      • Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
      • Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
      • Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
      • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
      • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
      • Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
      • Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. votes
      • Voted for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
      • Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
      • Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
      • Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
      • Voted strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
      • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
      • Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
      • Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
      • Voted very strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes

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      Most recent appearances

      Written Answers — Health: Choosing Health" (7 Apr 2005)

      “A number of guidance topics were referred to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on 5 April 2005, including topics in support of public health interventions and programmes pursuant to the aims of Choosing health—Making healthier choices easier". This referral included six public health guidance topics: An assessment of four commonly used methods to increase...”

      Written Answers — Health: Abortion (Essex) (7 Apr 2005)

      “Data is not available in the format requested. The National Statistician has been asked to provide the Department and the new health and social care information centre with guidelines for interpreting the national statistics code of practice and associated protocols in the handling of health statistics across the health community which balance data confidentiality risks with the public...”

      Written Answers — Health: Food Standards Directive (7 Apr 2005)

      “holding answer 21 March 2005 The United Kingdom will grant a derogation in accordance with the food supplements directive 2002/46/EC for the continued use of sources of the vitamins and minerals listed in the Directive, where dossiers have been either been submitted to the UK or to another member state, pending a positive opinion from the European Food Safety Authority. The Food Standards...”

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      Numerology

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      • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2005, according to constituents.
      • Has voted in 51.28% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
      • 2 people are tracking this MP.

      Expenses

      Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source).

      Type2008/092007/082006/072005/062004/05 (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      £1,923 £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) £13,798 (454th)
      London costs      £0 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others)
      Office running costs      £2,802 £19,079 (218th) £18,283 (433rd) £17,186 (468th) £20,075 (163rd)
      Staffing costs      £6,234 £63,470 (573rd) £62,649 (550th) £60,033 (joint 522nd with 1 other) £35,997 (582nd)
      Communications AllowanceN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
      Members' Travel      £172 £4,185 (560th) £3,423 (577th) £3,398 (580th) £2,139 (591st)
      Members' Staff Travel      £0 £124 (408th) £29 (468th) £51 (joint 445th with 1 other) £44 (441st)
      Members' Spouse TravelN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
      Members' Family TravelN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
      Centrally Purchased Stationery      £12 £801 (361st) £887 (306th) £1,575 (149th) £559 (joint 523rd with 1 other)
      Stationery: Associated Postage CostsN/A N/A £0 £2,400 (346th) £2,675 (joint 311th with 1 other) N/A N/A
      Centrally Provided Computer Equipment      £0 £922 (644th) £922 (641st) £922 (628th) £922 (joint 572nd with 1 other)
      Other Costs      £27,773 £0 £0 £0 £0
      Total      £38,916 £113,501 (506th) £110,775 (joint 500th with 1 other) £104,414 (497th) £74,761 (551st)