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Philip Davies
Conservative MP for Shipley
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Philip Davies voted on key issues:
- Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. 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: Justice, Home Department, Health, Treasury, Culture Media and Sport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Equality, Borders: Personal Records, Departmental Carbon Emissions, Sentencing, Plain English
(based on written questions asked by Philip Davies and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill Committee (1 out of 3)
- Concessionary Bus Travel Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Bill Presented — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill: Transparency and Consistency of Sentencing (2 Feb 2012)
“As getting the hon. Gentleman to agree with me is already a red-letter day for me, I shall push my luck. In the last Parliament, his Government introduced a system whereby people who were tagged could have that time knocked off their prison sentence, in the same way as remand in prison would be. Will he repent of that measure and agree that the time people are on a tag should not count...”
- Bill Presented — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill: Transparency and Consistency of Sentencing (2 Feb 2012)
“I asked the Ministry of Justice what was the highest number of crimes that somebody had committed while still not being sent to prison—the number of previous convictions. The answer was 578. Somebody with 578 previous convictions was not sent to prison. That was 300 for shoplifting, 131 for drunk and disorderly behaviour, 79 for public disorder, 18 for breach of bail, 14 for criminal...”
- Bill Presented — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill: Transparency and Consistency of Sentencing (2 Feb 2012)
“I agree with everything my hon. Friend is saying. Is it not all the more terrible that 10% of all crimes and 20% of all burglaries are committed by people on bail? Given that, should not the Government be doing something to tighten up the bail rules, instead of making it harder for courts to remand people in custody?”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 79 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 308 written questions in the last year — well 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 73.72% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 50 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 604 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Address of donor: The Peninsula, 2 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, M4 4FB
Register last updated: 13 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 | £23,886 (78th) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,102 (joint 199th with 3 others) | £21,634 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £14,603 (443rd) | £19,985 (241st) | £19,912 (375th) | £19,956 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £100,599 (141st) | £90,257 (215th) | £87,803 (131st) | £84,124 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £14,931 (29th) | £10,732 (84th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £11,878 (140th)1 | £11,664 (156th)2 | £10,868 (176th)3 | £9,769 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £334 (joint 217th with 2 others) | £194 (330th) | £250 (joint 303rd with 2 others) | £640 | ||||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £212 (277th) | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £66 (93rd) | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £4,748 (202nd) | £1,002 (225th) | £1,196 (224th) | £1,347 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,276 (201st) | £4,847 (142nd) | £5,030 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,107 (joint 485th with 2 others) | £1,082 (joint 276th with 17 others) | £1,082 | |||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £171,258 (68th) | £161,300 (82nd) | £148,060 (119th) | £143,582 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,680 (404th). Rail £10,011 (45th). Other: Air £187 (26th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,680 (425th). Rail £9,852 (52nd). Other: Air £132 (40th).