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Rosie Cooper
Labour MP for West Lancashire
- 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 Rosie Cooper voted on key issues:
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Has never voted on equal gay rights. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Education and Skills, Work and Pensions, Home Department, Justice
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Housing, Legal Aid: Contracts, Departmental Policies, Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority, Tax Credits
(based on written questions asked by Rosie Cooper and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Health and Social Care Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
- Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
- Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
- Criminal Defence Service Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Industrial Health and Safety (6 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the Health and Safety Executive is required to conduct an investigation into a workplace incident within a set period of time.”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Industrial Health and Safety (6 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Health and Safety Executive will publish its report into its investigation of the incident at the PHS Waste Management site in Burscough.”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Industrial Health and Safety (6 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the timetable has been of the Health and Safety Executive's investigation of the incident at the PHS Waste Management site in Burscough since the beginning of the investigation.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 24 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 118 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 75.32% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 9 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 70 times in debates — below 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 | £20,339 (268th) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,000 (260th) | £20,382 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £18,927 (275th) | £18,580 (317th) | £19,458 (405th) | £18,919 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £87,463 (484th) | £72,096 (602nd) | £86,021 (259th) | £76,307 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £10,393 (176th) | £9,746 (joint 197th with 1 other) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £11,469 (151st)1 | £12,866 (124th)2 | £9,541 (236th)3 | £8,610 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £287 (245th) | £0 | £0 | £413 | ||||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £0 | 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 | £6,979 (joint 30th with 1 other) | £1,779 (52nd) | £1,636 (136th) | £2,491 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £4,848 (73rd) | £4,534 (156th) | £6,212 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,131 (448th) | £1,168 (joint 147th with 2 others) | £885 | |||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £155,857 (251st) | £144,129 (368th) | £144,358 (182nd) | £134,219 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,109 (363rd). Rail £8,845 (59th). Air £282 (135th). Misc £151 (143rd). Other: Mileage £82 (55th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,879 (401st). Rail £9,704 (56th). Other: European £1,283 (32nd).