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Peter Luff
Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire

  • Also represented Worcester
  • Entered Parliament on 9 April 1992 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Peter Luff voted on key issues since 2001:

  • Voted strongly against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
  • Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
  • Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. 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 moderately against university tuition fees. votes
  • Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
  • Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
  • Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
  • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Home Department, Health, Defence, Education and Skills

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Asylum Accommodation Centres, Foot and Mouth, Bovine TB, Police, Digital Broadcasting

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Regional Planning and Development: Worcestershire (17 Jun 2013)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he has yet received the South Worcestershire Development Plan; and when he expects the independent examination of this plan to have been completed.”

GCHQ: Better Defence Acquisition (10 Jun 2013)

“The Secretary of State will understand how pleased I am that he has announced the implementation of the major elements of the report that I commissioned from Lord Currie on single-source pricing regulations—a highly technical but really important subject. On DE&S, does he share my concern that there may be forces even in his own Department, and certainly elsewhere in Government,...”

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

“I again pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the way she has engaged with the design and technology curriculum. Business engagement is crucial. She probably cannot prejudge it, but is she aware of how the Perkins review, which is being conducted by the chief scientist at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will address such issues? It is a cross-departmental matter, not just for...”

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  • Has spoken in 29 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 41 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 73.59% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 10 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above 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") 753 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

1. Remunerated directorships
Chairman of Democracy Forum Ltd, 34 South Molton Street, London W1K 5RG; a not-for-profit organisation promoting peace and democracy. Remuneration: retainer of £12,000 per annum, unrelated to hours worked, which average about one day per month.
Received on 23 January 2013, £1,000. (Registered 28 January 2013; updated 28 February 2013)
Received on 24 February 2013, £1,000. (Registered 28 February 2013)
Received on 15 March 2013, £1,000. (Registered 23 March 2013)
Received on 15 April 2013, £1,000. (Registered 23 April 2013)
Non-executive director of Marlin Group Holdings plc, suppliers of advanced industrial automation systems, from 2 February 2013. Address: Marlin House, Johnson Road, Fernside Park, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 7SE. Annual remuneration of £25,000 per annum unrelated to hours worked,  but which are expected to be about 1.5 days per month.  (Registered 4 February 2013)
Received on 29 April 2013, £6,250. (Registered 2 May 2013)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payments from ComRes, 4 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA, for completing parliamentary panel surveys. Payments donated to local charities.
£75 received on 24 February 2013. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 28 February 2013)
£75 received on 26 March 2013. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 23 April 2013)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: QinetiQ (personal invitation of Leo Quinn, CEO)
Address of donor : Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough GU14 0LX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: a day’s shooting in Gloucestershire, with meals and accommodation; approximate value £2,000
Date of receipt of donation: 15 December 2012
Date of acceptance of donation: 15 December 2012
Donor status: company, registration no 45862941 (Registered 15 December 2012)
8. Land and Property
Two small residential properties, one in Worcester and one in London, both jointly owned with my wife, from which a registrable income is derived.
11. Miscellaneous
Unremunerated post on the Advisory Board of NDI, a supply chain development association.  (Registered 28 November 2012)

Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

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Expenses

Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/05 (ranking out of 659)2003/04 (ranking out of 658)2002/03 (ranking out of 657)2001/02 (ranking out of 657)
Staying away from main home£22,982 (146th) £19,694 (403rd) £20,014 (386th) £19,483 £19,435 (336th) £19,016 (318th) £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) £13,649 (465th)
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,055 (111th) £0
Office running costs£11,751 (544th) £20,994 (176th) £18,962 (432nd) £23,775 £18,328 (334th) £18,433 (417th) £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) £19,637 (173rd)
Staffing costs£88,300 (475th) £83,194 (464th) £83,816 (340th) £70,265 £61,507 (595th) £64,273 (joint 458th with 31 others) £61,980 (joint 397th with 36 others) £43,110 (437th)
Communications Allowance£12,327 (joint 78th with 1 other) £4,784 (470th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£5,702 (399th)1 £5,327 (448th)2 £5,749 (414th)3 £6,777 £7,121 (459th) £9,537 (340th) £8,938 (378th) £9,080 (269th)
Members' Staff Travel£840 (89th) £146 (354th) £596 (200th) £353 £299 (327th) £0 £121 (joint 408th with 1 other) £238 (333rd)
Members' Spouse Travel£821 (joint 145th with 1 other) £617 (188th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Family Travel£0 £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Purchased Stationery£3,777 (291st) £1,134 (183rd) £954 (joint 296th with 1 other) £1,253 £740 (386th) £1,142 (205th) £1,076 (304th) £1,125 (287th)
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,790 (joint 416th with 1 other) £2,848 (302nd) £3,836 £1,819 (joint 435th with 1 other) £3,395 (217th) N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,335 (joint 142nd with 3 others) £1,132 (joint 197th with 5 others) £0 £2,040 (27th) £2,040 (23rd) £2,040 (23rd) £1,827 (joint 369th with 1 other)
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total£146,500 (370th) £139,015 (421st) £134,071 (396th) £125,742 £112,907 (514th) £119,410 (329th) £113,166 (325th) £88,666 (329th)

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,025 (186th). Rail £1,671 (385th). Misc £6 (247th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,853 (128th). Rail £364 (506th). Misc £110 (152nd).

3 Car £3,981 (243rd). Rail £1,768 (355th).

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Other offices held in the past

  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Defence Equipment, Support and Technology), Defence (14 May 2010 to 4 Sep 2012)
  • Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (2 Feb 2010 to 11 May 2010)
  • Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (14 Jan 2010 to 19 Jan 2010)
  • Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (formerly Quadripartite Committee) (7 Oct 2009 to 11 May 2010)
  • Chairman, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (7 Oct 2009 to 11 May 2010)
  • Member, Committee on Arms Export Controls (18 Apr 2008 to 7 Oct 2009)
  • Chairman, Business and Enterprise Committee (18 Apr 2008 to 7 Oct 2009)
  • Chairman, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee (14 Nov 2007 to 18 Apr 2008)
  • Member, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee (7 Nov 2007 to 14 Nov 2007)
  • Chairman, Trade & Industry Committee (1 Nov 2005 to 7 Nov 2007)
  • Member, Liaison Committee (1 Nov 2005 to 11 May 2010)
  • Member, Trade & Industry Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 1 Nov 2005)
  • Member, Administration Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 16 May 2006)
  • Member, Selection Committee (to 11 Apr 2005)
  • Member, Information Committee (to 11 Apr 2005)
  • Member, Administration Committee (to 11 Apr 2005)
  • Assistant Chief Whip, Whips (10 May 2004 to 20 May 2005)

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