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Nicholas Boles
Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford
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- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Nicholas Boles voted on key issues:
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. 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 greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted for a smoking ban. 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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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Cabinet Office
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Government Departments: Procurement
(based on written questions asked by Nicholas Boles and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Pensions Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Education Bill Committee (22 out of 22)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Abu Qatada (17 Apr 2012)
“The Home Secretary has remained admirably calm in her responses to a string of former and wannabe Home Office Ministers on the Labour Benches, whose bluster has not concealed the fact that they utterly failed, over the course of nine years, to make any progress in getting this man out of this country. Will the Home Secretary assure me that Abu Qatada will no longer be residing in the United...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Mar 2012)
“For 10 years or more, leading Conservatives such as Lord Saatchi and Lord Tebbit have argued for working people and pensioners on low incomes to be taken out of income tax altogether. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is a thoroughly Conservative idea whose time has well and truly arrived?”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 Mar 2012)
“If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 7 March.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 14 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 87.73% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well 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 18–19 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") 40 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Fellow of and freelance consultant to the Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, London SW1Y 5AA. Advice on research projects, events programme, development work with MPs, ministers and special advisers. (£45,001-£50,000)
September 2010, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for September 2010 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
Late entries to which the rectification procedure was applied on 26 March 2012. See paragraph 108 of the Guide to the Rules.
Late entries to which the rectification procedure was applied on 26 March 2012. See paragraph 108 of the Guide to the Rules.
October 2010, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for October 2010 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
November 2010, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for November 2010 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
December 2010, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for December 2010 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
January 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for January 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
February 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for February 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
March 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for March 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
April 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for April 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
May 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for May 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
June 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for June 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
July 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for July 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
August 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for August 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
September 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for September 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
October 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for October 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
November 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for November 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
December 2011, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for December 2011 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012)
January 2012, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for January 2012 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012; updated 2 April 2012)
February 2012, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for February 2012 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 15 February 2012; updated 2 April 2012)
March 2012, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for March 2012 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 6 March 2012; updated 2 April 2012)
April 2012, received payment of £2,216.00 (net) (£3,800 gross) for April 2012 from the Institute for Government. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 2 April 2012)
Received £270 from Daily Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT, for article. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 12 December 2011)
Received a payment of £2,000 for a speaking engagement from Deloitte LLP, Stonecutter Court, London EC4A 4TR on 15 December 2011. Hours: 6 hrs. (Registered 23 January 2012)
Received payment of £3,128.91 on 23 February 2012 for two speeches for Deloitte Canada, 13-14 February 2012, Ottawa and Toronto. Address: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, 30 Wellington Street West, PO Box 400 Stn Commerce Court, Toronto, ONM5L 1B1. Hours: 8 hours work plus travel to Ottawa and Toronto. (Registered 15 March 2012)
Received payment of £15,931.68 on 1 March 2012 for three speeches for United Jewish Appeal, Ottawa and Toronto, 13-14 February and Miami, 16 February 2012. Address: UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, 4600 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2. Hours: 12 hours plus travel to Ottawa, Toronto and Miami. The UJA paid for my international flights; cost £759.93, domestic flights; cost £842.38, hotel accommodation and incidentals; cost £1,230.0, in respect of these engagements and the preceding two engagements for Deloitte Canada. (Registered 15 March 2012)
Register last updated: 30 Apr 2012. More about the Register