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Neil Parish
Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Neil Parish voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. 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 for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Energy and Climate Change, Home Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Health
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Food, Animal Welfare, Energy: Meters, Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, Nature Improvement Areas
(based on written questions asked by Neil Parish and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (10 out of 14)
- Local Government Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (9 May 2012)
“I, too, much support the groceries code adjudicator Bill. If there is no problem with how our big buyers and supermarkets use their muscle, they will have nothing to fear from the adjudicator. It will be a check and balance.”
- EU Working Time Directive (NHS) (26 Apr 2012)
“I thank my hon. Friend for the excellent speech that she is delivering. This, of course, is the social chapter that Tony Blair signed up to in 1997 kicking in, and I suggest that the Government might want to get us out of that legislation. I feel that irrespective of what length of time doctors might work, it is down to them to negotiate that with hospitals, rather than have it imposed by a...”
- Financial Services Bill (Programme) (No. 3): New Clause 4 — Power to make further provision about regulation of consumer credit (23 Apr 2012)
“That is absolutely right. Many of the people taking out these loans earn less than £15,500 a year and therefore cannot afford the loan in the first place. I have sympathy for their position, but are we really helping them by allowing them to get into the hands of loan sharks, which results in their having to pay back huge amounts of money that they simply do not have? I have made the...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 52 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 47 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 84.48% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 15–16 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") 60 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Apr 2012. More about the Register