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Peter Tapsell
Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle
- Also represented Linsey East; Horncastle; Nottingham West
- Entered Parliament on 8 October 1959 — General election
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Peter Tapsell voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted strongly against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
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- Quite often rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Home Department, Defence, Work and Pensions, Prime Minister
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Crimes of Violence: Lincolnshire, Engagements, Army: Afghanistan, Pension Schemes
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Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Financial Services Bill (6 Feb 2012)
“As we are in the mood for recollection, and I am one of those who strongly opposed the tripartite system of supervision when it was introduced, may I say that I very much welcome the Bill? However, the whole strategic object of what we should be doing now is to ensure that we get rid of the shibboleth of the bank that is too big to fail. I doubt whether this admirable Bill, even combined with...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Financial Services Bill (6 Feb 2012)
“The shadow Chancellor raised the question of both Barings and BCCI, and it underlines the nature of the regulatory problem. The Barings failure was largely a failure of the Singapore regulatory authority. I was closely involved with Singapore as an adviser to the monetary authority at the time. The Government in Singapore were horrified by the fact that a British rogue trader had not been...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Syria (6 Feb 2012)
“I am certain that the Foreign Secretary needs no point of information from me, but may I nevertheless urge him to bear these facts in mind? Inside Syria—which, as he knows very well, contains an immensely complex ethnic and religious group of people—there has lived for many generations a large Christian community, now estimated to number over 350,000. Its archbishop has publicly...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 32 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below 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 45.55% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 21 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 20–21 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") 424 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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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.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (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 | £24,006 (joint 1st with 48 others) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,634 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £15,789 (joint 218th with 4 others) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £12,153 (531st) | £10,100 (590th) | £12,270 (595th) | £9,790 | £9,323 (617th) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £16,927 (269th) |
| Staffing costs | £110,245 (15th) | £100,790 (12th) | £95,444 (21st) | £94,290 | £84,215 (21st) | £71,773 (joint 85th with 44 others) | £68,960 (125th) | £53,352 (94th) |
| Communications Allowance | £1,401 (563rd) | £2,285 (547th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £5,330 (431st)1 | £5,128 (457th)2 | £5,123 (462nd)3 | £4,923 | £5,259 (528th) | £4,603 (537th) | £5,539 (503rd) | £4,307 (500th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £133 (359th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £277 (321st) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £1,440 (joint 81st with 2 others) | £1,199 (110th) | 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 | £2,637 (426th) | £407 (541st) | £561 (504th) | £533 | £555 (joint 474th with 2 others) | £303 (595th) | £1,056 (joint 309th with 2 others) | £367 (joint 600th with 1 other) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £2,584 (284th) | £2,140 (392nd) | £1,962 | £2,386 (348th) | £1,480 (joint 494th with 1 other) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,105 (488th) | £971 (465th) | £0 | £1,576 (joint 549th with 1 other) | £1,576 (joint 535th with 1 other) | £1,576 (joint 508th with 1 other) | £1,470 (joint 480th with 2 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £157,212 (235th) | £146,681 (327th) | £138,752 (305th) | £133,132 | £124,216 (303rd) | £118,867 (338th) | £115,087 (joint 277th with 1 other) | £92,489 (224th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,080 (481st). Rail £4,250 (226th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,380 (479th). Rail £3,748 (251st).