This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.

Nia Griffith

Labour MP for Llanelli

Help, we're missing a photo of Nia Griffith! If you are Nia Griffith, or have a photo of them (that you have copyright of) please email it to us.

• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
• Majority: 7,234 votes. — 277th out of 643 MPs.

• Send a message to your MP (via WriteToThem.com)
• Sign up to HearFromYourMP to get messages from your MP
• Email me whenever Nia Griffith speaks (no more than once per day)
• Help us add video by matching a speech by Nia Griffith

• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP (From edmi.parliament.uk)

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Nia Griffith voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against replacing Trident. 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

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership

• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee (since 20 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Justice, Trade and Industry, Wales, Communities and Local Government, Treasury

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Prisoners: Drugs, Heating, Renewable Energy, Patient Choice, Staff: Disabilities

(based on written questions asked by Nia Griffith and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Equality Bill Committee (17 out of n/a)
• Education and Skills Bill Committee (20 out of n/a)
• Climate Change Bill Committee (10 out of n/a)
• Sustainable Communities Bill Committee (6 out of n/a)
• Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee (11 out of n/a)
• Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (3 out of n/a)
• Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Transport (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (19 out of n/a)
• Animal Welfare Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Commons Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Petition — Hospital Parking Charges (Cheshire): Bank Lending Policies (1 Jul 2009) has video

“Does my right hon. Friend agree that the banks' attitude to people such as my constituent, Alun Richards, who has been developing Tycroes business park very successfully, but now finds the banks determined to impose unrealistic conditions on him—in spite of complimenting him on his business plan—is very damaging to the local economy and is not helping the local area out of the...”

Archer Inquiry (1 Jul 2009)

“Does the hon. Lady agree that whatever the form of the inquiry, what we do not want to do now is launch yet more inquiries or waste more time? We need direct help from the Government for those who have suffered the most from this terrible tragedy.”

Petition — Taxation (Bingo Clubs) (30 Jun 2009)

“I wish to present a petition from 451 residents of Llanelli and others who use Argos bingo club there. The petition Declares that the imposition of Gross Profits Tax of 22 per cent. on bingo clubs, compared with a gaming industry average of 15 per cent., is unreasonable and will be damaging to the continued viability of small bingo clubs, which play an important part as centres of the...”

More of Nia Griffith's recent appearances

RSS feed (?)

Numerology

Please note that numbers do not measure quality. Also, representatives may do other things not currently covered by this site. (More about this)

• Has spoken in 30 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 4 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee (0 as chair).
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2007, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 88% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 2 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 58 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Nia Griffith speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 85 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members' Interests

Register last updated: 24 Jun 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: Mileage £1,680 (425th). Rail £8,169 (84th). Misc £18 (237th). Other: European £1,249 (33rd).

^** Car £1,710 (453rd). Rail £6,983 (94th). Other £36 (63rd). European £1,914 (11th).