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Neil Gerrard

Labour MP for Walthamstow

• Entered Parliament on 9 April 1992 — General election
• Majority: 7,993 votes. — 220th out of 643 MPs.

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• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Neil Gerrard voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted moderately 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

Read about how the voting record is decided.

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

• Quite often rebels against their party in this parliament.

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership

• Member, Administration Committee (since 14 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

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

• 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)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Parliament (Joint Departments) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Offender Management Bill Committee (6 out of n/a)
• Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill Committee (11 out of n/a)
• Sexual Offences Bill Committee (10 out of n/a)
• Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee (9 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (10 Nov 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for Section 4 support were (a) considered and (b) refused in each year since 2006.”

Probation Service (4 Nov 2009)

“This is a useful debate, given the concerns that have been expressed about probation over the past few weeks. No doubt the Minister will refer to the big increases in the probation budget in the past 10 years, and rightly so. There was a 70 per cent. increase in the budget from 1997 to 2007. That is not something that happens by chance. Budget increases of that size happen because Governments...”

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners Release (4 Nov 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people were released on (a) temporary release licence, (b) home detention curfew, (c) early release and (d) juvenile temporary release in each of the last three years; (2) how many people were released from prison on (a) resettlement day release, (b) resettlement overnight release, (c) placements with community service...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 21 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 98 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 very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 77% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 6 annotations on this MP’s speeches — average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 80 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Neil Gerrard speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 326 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Nil

Register last updated: 11 Nov 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.

^* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £1,136 (417th). Other: Rail £115 (110th). European £1,809 (17th).

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