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Michael Gove
Conservative MP for Surrey Heath

  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Michael Gove voted on key issues:

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

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Children, Schools and Families, Communities and Local Government, Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Home Department

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Home Information Packs, Gcse, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Teachers: Training, Pupil Exclusions

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Previous Business – Commons: Select Committee (15 May 2013)

“Education: Secretary of State: School accountability, qualifications and curriculum reform. 9:30 am; The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Witnesses: Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education”

Written Answers — Education: Academies (25 Apr 2013)

“Since being established on 1 April 2012, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has recorded funding agreement breaches by 411 academies or academy trusts. An accurate list of the reasons for each individual breach—which can range from non-compliant complaints processes to late return of audited financial statements—could be collated only at disproportionate cost.”

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  • Has spoken in 12 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.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 57.54% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 30 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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.
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  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 633 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Contract from Harper Collins to write historical biography.
Income from publication of ‘Celsius 7/7’, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Payments by way of royalties for assorted publications from the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society Ltd, Writers’ House, 13 Haydon St, London EC3N 1DB:
Payment of £367.53, received August 2011. No additional hours worked. (Registered 11 June 2012)
Payment of £84.58, received 21 February 2013. No additional hours worked. (Registered 5 March 2013)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
(a) Donations to the constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by the party to the Electoral Commission:
(a) Name of donor: The Dental Centre
(a) Address of donor: 19 Station Road, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 2AL
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £250 a month from 28 October 2011; value £3,000 a year in 2011-12 and 2012-13
(a) Donor status: company, registration no. 05971338
(a) (Registered 29 December 2011; updated 22 January 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Luff Associates
(a) Address of donor: White Oak Cottage, 13 Claremont Avenue, Camberley Surrey GU15 2DR
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £250 a month from 8 November 2011; value £3,000 a year in 2011-12 and 2012-13
(a) Donor status: LLP
(a) (Registered 29 December 2011; updated 22 January 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Mr Richard Gillham
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 6 June 2012)
(a) Name of donor: London and Bath Estates
(a) Address of donor: 3rd Floor, Sterling House, Langston Rd, Loughton, IG10 3TS
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
(a) Donor status: company, no 03125671
(a) (Registered 3 August 2012 )
(a) Name of donor: John May
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000 for the year from 8 March 2012 to February 2013, in monthly payments of £250.
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 10 August 2012)
(a) Name of donor: Mr J Buhlmann
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 17 September 2012)
(a) Name of donor: Mr Aidan Heavey
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 24 January 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Bansols Beta Ltd
(a) Address of donor: The Courtyard, Chapel Lane, Bodicote, Banbury, OX15 4DB
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000
(a) Donor status: company, registration no 02878404
(a) (Registered 14 February 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Mrs Linda Jane Coffin
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000 for the year 2013, in monthly payments of £250; first donation made on 28 January 2013.
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 20 February 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Information Edge
(a) Address of donor: Token House, 11-12 Tokenhouse Yard, London EC2R 7AS
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000 for the year 2013, in monthly payments of £250; first donation made on 21 January 2013.
(a) Donor status: company, registration 05337528
(a) (Registered 20 February 2013)
(a) Name of donor: Mr Henry Lumley
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 21 March 2013)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: Royal Opera House
Address of donor: Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 4 tickets (one for each opera of the Ring cycle) with a total value of £888
Date of receipt of donation: 12 September 2012
Date of acceptance of donation: 24 September 2012; 26 September 2012; 21 October 2012; 24 October 2012
Donor status: charity and limited company, registration no 480523
(Registered 30 October 2012)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: AEI World Forum,
Address of donor: Sea Island, Georgia, USA
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): accommodation with a value of £906 and subsistence with a value of £329.12, giving a total of £1,235.12
Destination of visit: Georgia, US
Date of visit: 7-10 March 2013
Purpose of visit: To attend conference
(Registered 25 April 2013)
7. Overseas benefits and gifts
See Category 2 above.

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.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Staying away from main home£23,716 (95th) £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) £21,634        
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Office running costs£16,706 (372nd) £15,602 (447th) £20,636 (268th) £19,424        
Staffing costs£101,060 (124th) £89,446 (255th) £87,079 (195th) £81,114        
Communications Allowance£14,847 (30th) £15,705 (16th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£4,539 (469th)1 £5,542 (433rd)2 £4,334 (499th)3 £7,420        
Members' Staff Travel£31 (403rd) £20 (427th) £51 (joint 410th with 1 other) £75        
Members' Spouse Travel£0 £0 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£907 (619th) £516 (joint 479th with 1 other) £732 (joint 403rd with 1 other) £861        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,016 (joint 563rd with 1 other) £1,690 (462nd) £1,816 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,141 (joint 429th with 1 other) £1,101 (238th) £1,101        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Total£161,804 (169th) £152,071 (235th) £137,733 (326th) £133,445        

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,750 (293rd). Rail £174 (546th). Other: Rail £1,414 (7th). European £201 (132nd).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,560 (250th). Rail £184 (541st). Other: Rail £1,798 (7th).

3 Car £4,182 (218th). Rail £152 (536th).

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Other offices held in the past

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Children, Schools and Families (6 Jul 2007 to 11 May 2010)
  • Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government (18 Jan 2006 to 6 Jul 2007)
  • Shadow Minister (Housing), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (16 Dec 2005 to 18 Jan 2006)
  • Member, European Scrutiny Committee (29 Jun 2005 to 23 Jan 2007)

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