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Peter Bone
Conservative MP for Wellingborough
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Peter Bone voted on key issues:
- Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. 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 replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Quite often rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Home Department, Treasury, Defence, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Human Trafficking, Police, Waiting Times, NHS: Finance, Public Expenditure
(based on written questions asked by Peter Bone and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Chairman, Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill Committee (2 out of 6)
- Chairman, Finance Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
- Chairman, Financial Services (Banking Reform)Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Chairman, Mental Health (Discrimination) (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Chairman, Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (10 out of 14)
- Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Finance Bill Committee (12 out of 18)
- Finance Bill Committee (17 out of 24)
- Banking Bill Committee (15 out of 17)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Charities Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
- Work and Families Bill Committee (1 out of 3)
Most recent appearances
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)
“It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) who puts her case, as usual, with great sincerity. I will be voting against Third Reading tonight, partly because I think that the Bill is wrong; marriage is between a man and a woman. My real motive for voting against Third Reading, however, is the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of the Bill. We are yet...”
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)
“We find ourselves in the unusual situation that none of the political parties put this in their manifesto. Does my hon. Friend agree that the other place will have complete legitimacy if it chooses to reject the Bill because the Salisbury convention should not apply here?”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 138 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 66 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 83.89% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 121 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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") 601 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Received £75 for survey completed on 18 January 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 6 June 2012)
Received £75 for survey completed on 5 March 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 6 June 2012)
Received £75 for survey completed on 2 May 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 19 June 2012)
Received £75 for survey completed on 6 June 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 18 July 2012)
Received £75 on 4 September 2012 for survey completed on 9 July 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 4 September 2012)
Received £75 on 9 January 2013 for survey completed on 28 November 2012. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 9 January 2013)
Received £75 on 14 March 2013 for survey completed on 20 January 2013. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 14 March 2013)
Received £75 on 22 March 2013 for survey completed on 23 February 2013. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 3 April 2013)
Received £150 for completing survey on 26 July 2012. Hours: 1 hr 16 mins. (Registered 19 November 2012)
Received £150 for completing survey on 6 November 2012. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 21 December 2012)
Fees for completing surveys for YouGov, 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT:
£70 for completing survey on 10 July 2012. Hours: 15 mins. (Registered 30 July 2012)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: National Football League UK
Address of donor : 4th floor, 1-9 Hills Place, London W1F 7SA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets at £439 each for the NFL game in Wembley Stadium, total value £878
Date of receipt of donation: 28 October 2012
Date of acceptance of donation: 28 October 2012
Donor status: company, registration no 07736687
(Registered 28 November 2012)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: ECPAT UK (campaign against child exploitation and trafficking)
Address of donor: 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0BS
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): flights, hotel accommodation and expenses for me and a member of my staff; total value £796
Destination of visit: Madrid, Spain
Date of visit: 17-18 January 2013
Purpose of visit: to attend Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking conference
(Registered 25 January 2013)
9. Registrable shareholdings
(a) AJWB Travel Ltd; travel company
11. Miscellaneous
Director of AJWB Travel Ltd; non-remunerated at present.
Owner of P W Bone Chartered Accountants; non-remunerated at present.
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. 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 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 | 2003/04 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £22,447 (169th) | £23,061 (168th) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,567 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £13,152 (498th) | £17,240 (382nd) | £17,278 (505th) | £19,812 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £109,184 (22nd) | £94,600 (60th) | £90,188 (70th) | £84,232 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £10,245 (213th) | £9,939 (158th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £5,094 (441st)1 | £4,997 (466th)2 | £6,114 (395th)3 | £4,793 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £538 (148th) | £596 (176th) | £752 (joint 166th with 1 other) | £683 | ||||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £639 (175th) | £641 (179th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £58 (95th) | £121 (78th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £3,245 (346th) | £1,519 (joint 91st with 1 other) | £671 (428th) | £1,531 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,890 (69th) | £2,578 (328th) | £2,110 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,065 (joint 523rd with 3 others) | £1,014 (joint 385th with 19 others) | £1,014 | |||||
| Other Costs | £4,368 (44th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £168,969 (84th) | £158,669 (115th) | £140,705 (269th) | £135,742 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,059 (179th). Rail £887 (473rd). Misc £46 (204th). Other: Mileage £102 (43rd).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,066 (204th). Rail £854 (453rd). Misc £52 (195th). Other: Rail £25 (175th).
3 Car £3,923 (248th). Rail £1,449 (384th). European £742 (59th).