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Mike Freer
Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Mike Freer voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- 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 for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Treasury, Transport, Health, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Business, Innovation and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Billing, Departmental Mobile Phones, Departmental Press: Subscriptions, Departmental Sick Leave, Press: Subscriptions
(based on written questions asked by Mike Freer and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Public Service Pensions Bill Committee (8 out of 9)
- Civil Aviation Bill Committee (11 out of 14)
- London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
Most recent appearances
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)
“I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for taking a chance on me. This week alone, two more countries and six states in America have approved same-sex marriage. Is not the tide of history with us and not against us?”
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013)
“I raised that question because of the anomaly that a gay man or a straight man joining the pension scheme will pay contributions at the same rate but receive different benefits, which is discrimination.”
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013)
“If I heard the Minister correctly, she said that any transgender couple who transition will keep their full entitlement from the date of joining the pension scheme, but a civil partner survivor will still be restricted to the point at which civil partnerships became law. Does not that create yet another anomaly?”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 28 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 142 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 86.19% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 2 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 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") 62 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register