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Robert Flello
Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South

    • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Robert Flello voted on key issues:

    • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. 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 for laws to stop climate change. votes
    • Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted for equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
    • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
    • Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Justice, Home Department, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Children, Schools and Families, Communities and Local Government

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Chief Coroner, Coroners, Serco, Communities First Fund, Special Educational Needs

    (based on written questions asked by Robert Flello and answered by departments)

    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Written Answers — Justice: Young Offenders (22 May 2012)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many young people in all parts of the secure youth estate transferred to the adult estate due to their age in each of the last three years; (2) how many adult prisoners who committed suicide did so within five years of them transferring from any part of the youth estate in each of the last five years; (3) how many children in any part of...”

    Written Answers — Justice: Young Offenders (22 May 2012)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the reoffending rate was amongst young people who were released from the adult estate and had previously been held in any part of the secure youth estate in each of the last five years.”

    Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour (21 May 2012)

    “Whether her Department has carried out an impact assessment on removing the deterrent of a criminal record in dealing with antisocial behaviour.”

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    • Has spoken in 54 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 83 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
    • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
    • Has voted in 72.05% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 33 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") 152 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
    Address of donor: Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke, ST4 1RN.
    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: provision of council parking permit. Estimated value: £750.
    Date of receipt of donation: 1 June 2011
    Date of acceptance of donation: 1 June 2011
    Donor status: local authority
    (Registered 19 July 2011)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: War on Want
    Address of donor: 44-48 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7JP
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): approximately £1,000, comprising approximately £600 for flights, approximately £150 for hotel accommodation and approximately £200 for meals and other transport costs.
    Destination of visit: Mozambique
    Date of visit: 18 to 23 September 2011
    Purpose of visit: As co-chair of APPG on Agro-Ecology and with parliamentary interests in sustainable agriculture, to look at farming and food sovereignty issues
    (Registered 25 October 2011)
    Name of donor: Justice for Colombia
    Address of donor: 4th floor, 75-77 St John St, London EC1M 4NN
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): flights, hotel accommodation, meals and other transport costs, with a total value of approximately £2,000
    Destination of visit: Colombia
    Date of visit: 26 February to 2 march 2012
    Purpose of visit: To see and hear first-hand the human rights abuses in Colombia.
    (Registered 22 March 2012)

    Register last updated: 30 Apr 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.

    Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
    Staying away from main home£12,793 (468th) £20,797 (357th) £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) £21,634        
    London costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
    Office running costs£22,672 (94th) £24,990 (55th) £27,140 (60th) £29,801        
    Staffing costs£98,586 (215th) £86,854 (356th) £78,546 (490th) £68,067        
    Communications Allowance£8,980 (310th) £9,389 (243rd) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Travel£10,094 (196th)1 £11,225 (173rd)2 £10,510 (197th)3 £10,114        
    Members' Staff Travel£57 (joint 370th with 1 other) £402 (239th) £1,300 (86th) £503        
    Members' Spouse Travel£0 £84 (334th) 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£6,998 (joint 8th with 4 others) £2,654 (4th) £3,704 (32nd) £1,722        
    Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£4,345 (120th) £14,983 (13th) £5,104 N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,376 (joint 84th with 2 others) £1,255 (61st) £1,255        
    Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
    Total£160,181 (195th) £162,116 (75th) £159,548 (22nd) £138,200        

    1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,743 (207th). Rail £5,577 (159th). Other: Mileage £87 (51st). European £687 (77th).

    2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,993 (115th). Rail £5,942 (156th). Other: Rail £290 (63rd).

    3 Car £2,986 (323rd). Rail £7,233 (86th). Air £291 (188th).