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Priti Patel
Conservative MP for Witham
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Priti Patel voted on key issues:
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Justice, Home Department, Business, Innovation and Skills, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Treasury
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Trade Unions, Departmental Pay, EU Law, Departmental Sick Leave, Departmental Sponsorship
(based on written questions asked by Priti Patel and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Postal Services Bill Committee (18 out of 21)
- Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Civil Aviation Bill Committee (12 out of 14)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (23 out of 26)
Most recent appearances
- Bill Presented — Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Electoral Registration and Administration Bill (23 May 2012)
“I have taken a degree of interest in the Bill, but unlike the hon. Member for Vale of Clwyd (Chris Ruane) I cannot say that I have had a 10-year interest in the matter, as I am a new Member of Parliament. This debate has thrown up a wide range of issues. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury (Simon Reevell), because he highlighted some important issues. That is why I...”
- Written Answers — Home Department: Deportation: Offenders (23 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national offenders from European Economic Area countries have been deported from the UK in each of the last five years; and what the nationality was of each such offender in each such year.”
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Trade Unions (23 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many trade union representatives in (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies had (i) part-time; and (ii) full-time paid facility time arrangements in 2011-12; (2) how many days were utilised for paid facility time by each trade union representative in (a) his Department and (b) each of...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 55 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 583 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 83.03% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 5 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 78 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Apr 2012. More about the Register