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Simon Hughes

Liberal Democrat MP for North Southwark & Bermondsey

• Also represented Southwark and Bermondsey; Southwark Bermondsey
• Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (since 8 Jan 2009)

• Entered Parliament on 24 February 1983 — unknown
• Majority: 5,406 votes. — 393rd out of 643 MPs.

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• Voting record
• Committees and topics of interest
• Most recent appearances
• Numerology
• Register of Members’ Interests
• Expenses

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Simon Hughes voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted very strongly for a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted a mixture of for and against introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes, speeches

Read about how the voting record is decided.

More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership

• Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (since 20 Aug 2008)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Home Department, Health, Education and Skills, Treasury, Energy and Climate Change

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Asylum Seekers, Probation Service, Criminal Offences, Prisons, Police

(based on written questions asked by Simon Hughes and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Legal Services Bill Committee (11 out of n/a)
• Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill Committee (7 out of n/a)
• Parliament (Joint Departments) Bill Committee (0 out of n/a)
• Compensation Bill Committee (3 out of n/a)
• Criminal Justice Bill Committee (28 out of n/a)
• Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Criminal Justice and Police Bill Committee (15 out of n/a)
• Private Security Industry Bill Committee (5 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

“Despite our difference of view on this matter, does the right hon. and learned Gentleman accept that the flaw in his argument is that when he was born more than 90 per cent. of the country voted either Labour or Conservative, whereas nowadays only about two thirds of the country vote for his party or the Labour party, and Governments are sometimes elected with only 22 or 23 per cent. of the...”

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

“Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Labour party has failed abysmally to reform the second Chamber, which is the largest entirely unelected second Chamber in Europe, if not the world? Rather than a draft Bill to tinker with it, if the Government really wanted to be seen as reformers, they ought to get rid of the hereditary principle and have an elected Chamber on the statute book...”

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

“There were, of course, some good measures in the Queen's Speech, but there was not a single word about housing. May I ask the Prime Minister why, after 10 years during which wages have risen by a third and house prices by 150 per cent., and when the number of people waiting for social housing is higher than it has been in any decade since the 1940s, there was nothing to show the sort of the...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 106 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 214 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee (0 as chair).
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 69% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 27 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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.
• 133 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Simon Hughes speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 3044 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Register last updated: 11 Nov 2009. 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 – 2007/08 receipts.

^* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £934 (529th).

^** Car £1,120 (522nd). Air £384 (169th). Other £888 (29th).