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Peter Bone
Conservative MP for Wellingborough
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Peter Bone voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. 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 against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a smoking ban. 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, Secondary Schools (Wellingborough)
(based on written questions asked by Peter Bone and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- 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)
- Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Charities Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
- Work and Families Bill Committee (1 out of 3)
- Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Business of the House (9 Feb 2012)
“The whole House will thank the Leader of the House for provisionally publishing the dates of recess and for private Members’ Bills, which is a welcome move. If the hon. Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) does not like those dates and wants to be here on Wednesdays, she can lead the Opposition through the Division Lobby and vote against it. Indeed, I might well be with her on that occasion....”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Feed-in Tariffs (9 Feb 2012)
“We are very lucky today in having an urgent question answered by the greenest Member of this House; nobody here is more committed to renewable energy. The Opposition attacking the Government for not leaking in advance a written statement is also novel. However, will the Minister look into the problem with the Nene valley hydro scheme? It is an excellent scheme that I know his Department...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: E-petitions (9 Feb 2012)
“I think I am right in saying that virtually every e-petition a Member has brought to the Backbench Business Committee that has reached 100,000 signatures has been debated in one way or the other. The Government should be enormously congratulated on bringing the public in line with Parliament. The Leader of the House has not had enough praise for that. Without this system, we would not have...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 177 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 95 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 88.30% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 109 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") 537 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. 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).