• Conservative MP for South Staffordshire
• Majority: 8,847 votes. — 81st out of 630 MPs.
• Send a message to your MP (via WriteToThem.com)
• Sign up to HearFromYourMP to get messages from your MP
• Email me whenever Patrick Cormack speaks (no more than once per day)
• Help us add video by matching a speech by Patrick Cormack

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

How Patrick Cormack voted on key issues since 2001:

• Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Has never voted on stopping 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.

Select Committee membership

• Member, Liaison Committee (since 1 Nov 2005)
• Chairman, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 20 Jul 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Education and Skills, Northern Ireland, Home Department, Treasury

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): School Funding, Correspondence, Works of Art (Indemnities), Sentencing (Averages), Zimbabwe

(based on written questions asked by Patrick Cormack and answered by departments)

Orders of the Day: Clause 138 — Power of governing body: educational provision for improving behaviour (17 Nov 2008)

“The point is that this must be done. It will become a legal obligation. It is yet another legislative burden that we do not need to place on hard-pressed people whose sole aim is to run good schools.”

Orders of the Day: Clause 138 — Power of governing body: educational provision for improving behaviour (17 Nov 2008)

“I promise that I shall not attempt to speak any longer than I did last Wednesday, but I would like to make a couple of brief points. I speak not only as the MP for South Staffordshire— the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) was kind enough to refer to that—but as someone who was a schoolmaster for 10 years before I entered the House. Any good school has to have...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Sex and Relationships Education (17 Nov 2008)

“Does the Minister not accept that many parents—and, indeed, grandparents—of primary school children are extremely concerned that this should become statutory? They believe that the right place for children to be taught these things is in the home—and, in some cases, a church—and they do not want the mechanics of sex taught at a very early age and to see the further...”

More of Patrick Cormack's recent appearances

RSS feed (?)

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 85 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 1 written question in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 2 select committees (1 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 48% of votes in parliament — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 11 comments on this MP's speeches — above 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.
• 31 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Patrick Cormack speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 327 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register last updated: 5 Nov 2008. More about the Register

View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

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

^* Car £4,851 (157th). Rail £266 (510th).