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Michael Gove

Conservative MP for Surrey Heath

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Children, Schools and Families (since 6 Jul 2007)

  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
  • Majority: 10,845 votes. — 232nd out of 643 MPs.

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Michael Gove voted on key issues since 2001:

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

Committees and 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, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Gcse, Pupil Exclusions, Council Tax: Valuation

(based on written questions asked by Michael Gove and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

RSS feed Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Academies (2 Jul 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many academies have taken (a) less than one year, (b) between one and two years, (c) between two and three years and (d) more than three years to open following (i) the initiation of the brokering phase and (ii) the statement of interest.”

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Gcse (2 Jul 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) in how many and what percentage of schools which had staff absent for an average of five or more days per teacher 30 per cent. or fewer pupils achieved five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in the last year for which figures are available; (2) how many and what percentage of schools in each decile...”

Points of Order (30 Jun 2009)

“On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. One of the very welcome announcements that you made when you first took the Chair was that Ministers had to make important announcements to this House first. The Secretary of State announced his change on home-school contracts and parenting orders in the pages of the Sunday Mirror. He made announcements about chains and federations in briefings to newspapers...”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 496 written questions in the last year — well above 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 2007, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 60% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 11 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.
  • 120 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Michael Gove speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 177 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members' Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Contract with Times Newspapers Limited to supply a set number of articles. (£60,001-£65,000)
Contract from Harper Collins to write historical biography.
Fees from BBC. (£10,001-£15,000)
Associate Editor, The House Magazine. (Up to £5,000)
Income from publication of 'Celsius 7/7', published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Columnist, "Building Magazine". (Up to £5,000)
Contributor to "Scotland on Sunday". (£5,001-£10,000)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
Contributions to Surrey Heath Conservative Association are received from:
Strangers Gallery Lunch Club
Magna Carta Club
Donations to my constituency association have been solicited or encouraged by me from:
Norma Stephenson, Camberley (personal donation)
Gavin Price, Dolphin Head Group, Camberley (company donation)
Moonpal Grewal, MSG Sandhurst Ltd, Banbury (company donation)
Michael Church (personal donation)
Kim Gottlieb, London and Bath Estates, London (company donation)
Gavin Price (personal donation)
Caroline Knowles (personal donation)
Barry Price (company donation in kind)
Bob Potter (personal donation)
Henry Lumley (personal donation)
Ashok Shrestha, Camberley (personal donation)
Frank Fogarty, Cove Construction (company donation)
Jeff Knight, Knight Security (company donation)
Ian Wooldridge, Wooldridge Group (company donation)
Nigel Long, Longacre Nurseries (company donation)
Conrad Sturt, Windlesham (personal donation)
Chris Cowdray, London (personal donation)
Charnjit Grewal, Colourflow Production Limited (company donation)
Malcolm Harding, Harding Auto Services (company donation)
(Registered 24 February 2009)
I have received direct help in research development from the Boston Consulting Group.
Donations received through Conservative Campaign Headquarters used to support my office in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from:
George E S Robinson, London (personal donation)
Edmund Lazarus, London (personal donation)
Mark Florman, London (personal donation)
Romie and Esther Tager, London (personal donation)
Alan Jacobs, London (personal donation)
Adrian Beecroft, London (personal donation)
Alan Bekhor (personal donation)
Harris Ventures Limited (company donation)
Howard Leigh (personal donation)
Lewis Trust Group Ltd (company donation)
Chris Mason (personal donation)
Manro Haydan Trading Limited (company donation)
Manrows Limited (company donation)
Chris Smith (personal donation)
Stanley Fink, London (personal donation)
Charles Pugh, Somerset (personal donation)
(Registered 8 July 2008)
Receiving research support from:
Martin Calderbank of Stirling Square Capital Partners.
(Registered 7 May 2009)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Gift of clothing from New & Lingwood, menswear company. (Registered 9 October 2008)
6. Overseas visits
22-24 January 2009, to Paris, to attend Franco-British Colloque. Accommodation and hospitality paid for by the Colloque. (I paid for my own travel.) (Registered 9 February 2009)

Register last updated: 24 Jun 2009. 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 – 2007/08 receipts.

Type2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Additional Costs Allowance£23,083 (joint 1st) £22,110 (joint 1st) £21,634        
London Supplement£0 £0 £0        
Incidental Expenses Provision£15,602 (447th) £20,636 (268th) £19,424        
Staffing Allowance£89,446 (255th) £87,079 (195th) £81,114        
Communications Allowance£15,705 (16th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£5,542 (433rd)* £4,334 (499th)** £7,420        
Members' Staff Travel£20 (427th) £51 (joint 410th) £75        
Members' Spouse Travel£0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Family Travel£0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Purchased Stationery£516 (joint 479th) £732 (joint 403rd) £861        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,016 (joint 563rd) £1,690 (462nd) £1,816 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment£1,141 (joint 429th) £1,101 (238th) £1,101        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0        
Total£152,071 (235th) £137,733 (326th) £133,445        

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

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