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Michael Meacher
Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton
- Also represented Oldham West
- Entered Parliament on 18 June 1970 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Michael Meacher voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Treasury, Health, Home Department, Trade and Industry
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Genetically Modified Organisms, Departments: Consultants, GM Crops, Health Services, Agriculture: Research
(based on written questions asked by Michael Meacher and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Planning and Energy Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Waste and Emissions Trading Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
- Municipal Waste Recycling Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Home Energy Conservation Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
- Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Opposition Day: [Un-Allotted Half Day] — Banking (Responsibility and Reform) (7 Feb 2012)
“No one can seriously doubt that Britain urgently needs fundamental banking reform, but what has been done so far, since the crash of 2008-09, is timid beyond belief. Hardly any of the factors behind the crash have been effectively dealt with. Extreme light-touch regulation left too much to the markets; a vast global market was created in credit derivatives, which were not well understood but...”
- Opposition Day: [Un-Allotted Half Day] — Banking (Responsibility and Reform) (7 Feb 2012)
“I wholly agree with the hon. Gentleman. The mega-bonuses go along with small businesses having to pay exorbitant interest charges, if they can get a loan at all. The Financial Secretary says that the Government are doing their best with RBS, but why do the Government not tell RBS what level of business lending there should be and what the conditions on it should be?”
- Opposition Day: [Un-Allotted Half Day] — Banking (Responsibility and Reform) (7 Feb 2012)
“The hon. Lady has obviously received a detailed RBS briefing. However, what she describes is very different from the experience of our constituents, who complain about how difficult it is to get loans and about the prohibitive conditions that are attached to them. I want to make one more point. It is little recognised that 85% of the British public’s money is held by just five banks,...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 25 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 52 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 61.82% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 11 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 19–20 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") 1570 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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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.
| 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 | £8,267 (538th) | £8,944 (567th) | £11,116 (550th) | £6,930 | £5,835 (596th) | £7,583 (595th) | £8,640 (597th) | £8,420 (586th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £319 (joint 122nd with 6 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others) |
| Office running costs | £22,189 (112th) | £21,961 (112th) | £20,030 (364th) | £20,000 | £19,008 (joint 237th with 1 other) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,148 (133rd) |
| Staffing costs | £100,147 (160th) | £89,882 (233rd) | £87,685 (134th) | £84,080 | £74,530 (155th) | £69,898 (joint 182nd with 10 others) | £65,595 (joint 231st with 1 other) | £48,289 (joint 238th with 1 other) |
| Communications Allowance | £7,260 (392nd) | £4,422 (486th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £12,198 (132nd)1 | £9,260 (252nd)2 | £10,873 (175th)3 | £9,266 | £11,500 (287th) | £7,052 (440th) | £6,042 (481st) | £4,032 (515th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £196 (joint 327th with 1 other) | £71 (joint 394th with 2 others) | £34 | £1,009 (184th) | £284 (joint 333rd with 1 other) | £0 | £504 (joint 241st with 2 others) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £835 (joint 141st with 1 other) | £866 (139th) | 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 | £3,276 (340th) | £1,076 (199th) | £993 (281st) | £834 | £1,042 (272nd) | £866 (321st) | £1,356 (198th) | £984 (339th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,671 (161st) | £3,945 (203rd) | £2,238 | £3,594 (211th) | £2,698 (307th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,297 (joint 187th with 2 others) | £1,093 (joint 254th with 3 others) | £913 | £1,771 (479th) | £1,771 (470th) | £1,771 (449th) | £1,478 (477th) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £154,172 (273rd) | £141,575 (397th) | £135,806 (363rd) | £124,295 | £118,289 (436th) | £109,270 (519th) | £103,165 (510th) | £86,082 (383rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £490 (541st). Rail £11,016 (35th). Other: Rail £18 (156th). European £674 (79th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £9,260 (64th).