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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
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Philip Davies voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted against equal gay rights. 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 very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly against more EU integration. 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 against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted strongly against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. 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)
- Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Concessionary Bus Travel Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Police (Administrative Burden) (21 May 2012)
“One of the most pointless, expensive and time-wasting aspects of the bureaucracy that the police have to deal with is the equality and diversity industry that mushroomed under the last Labour Government, which I saw for myself when I visited West Yorkshire police on Friday. Could I meet the Home Secretary or the Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice to discuss how we can streamline this...”
- Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Casinos and Bingo Clubs (21 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if he will place in the Library a copy of each response received to the 1996 paper Casinos and Bingo Clubs, A Consultation Paper.”
- Written Answers — Justice: Public Order Offences (21 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the highest number of previous convictions for public order acts offences for an individual convicted of public order acts offences without being sent to prison was in each of the last three years; and how many offences that individual had committed at the point of sentence for the latest offence.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 74 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 195 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 75.91% 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") 621 times in debates — well 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 | 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).