• Labour MP for Walthamstow
• Majority: 7,993 votes. — 218th out of 630 MPs.
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• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Recent appearances
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• Register of Members’ Interests
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• Early Day Motions signed by this MP (From edmi.parliament.uk)

How Neil Gerrard voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted strongly for a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes, speeches

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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Sometimes rebels against their party in this parliament.

Select Committee membership

• Member, Administration Committee (since 14 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Home Department, Justice, Health, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Work and Pensions

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): National Offender Management Service, Asylum Seekers, Probation Service, Prisons, Asylum/Immigration

(based on written questions asked by Neil Gerrard and answered by departments)

Written Answers — Home Department: Human Trafficking: Prostitution (17 Dec 2008)

“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library a copy of the research her Department used to inform its calculation that 80 per cent. of women working in prostitution have been trafficked into the UK.”

Written Answers — Home Department: Human Trafficking (16 Dec 2008)

“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her Department's definition is of a person who has been trafficked.”

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• Has spoken in 12 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 49 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee (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 76% of votes in parliament — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 4 comments 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.
• 88 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Neil Gerrard speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 172 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

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Register last updated: 17 Dec 2008. More about the Register

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Figures in brackets are ranks. Parliament's explanatory notes.

^* Rail £58 (563rd). Other £1,096 (18th).