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Stephen Dorrell
Conservative MP for Charnwood

  • Also represented Loughborough
  • Entered Parliament on 3 May 1979 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Stephen Dorrell voted on key issues since 2001:

  • Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
  • Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes
  • Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
  • Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
  • Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
  • Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
  • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted moderately against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Voted moderately against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
  • Voted strongly against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Health, Treasury, Education and Skills, Home Department, Deputy Prime Minister

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Government Offices (East Midlands), Capital Spending (Leicestershire), Crimes of Violence: Charnwood, Speech and Language Therapists, Information Officers

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Opposition Day: NHS (Private Sector) (16 Jan 2012)

“It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame M. Morris). He and I are both members of the Health Committee and, surprisingly perhaps, we more often find ourselves in agreement about the objectives that we are trying to deliver than is obvious from the nature of the debates across the Floor of the House. I shall focus my remarks on the speech by the shadow Health...”

Opposition Day: NHS (Private Sector) (16 Jan 2012)

“I would be delighted to.”

Opposition Day: NHS (Private Sector) (16 Jan 2012)

“The right hon. Gentleman is in danger of creating another consensus. Indeed, there is a debate about whether the Bill moves things forward as far as the rhetoric suggests. I am on the record many times saying that the claims made for the Bill by, if I am honest, both the Government and the Opposition spokesmen are grossly overstated. It introduces greater engagement by clinicians in...”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 73.75% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 2 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below average amongst MPs.
  • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 20–21 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") 1051 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

1. Remunerated directorships
Faithful Group Ltd., 1-3 College Yard, Worcester. Provider of management services.
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payment of £250, donated directly to charity, in respect of a speech made at a dinner organised by Speechly Bircham LLP on 11 May 2011. Address: Speechly Bircham LLP, 6 New Street Square, London EC4A 3LX. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 26 May 2011)
11 July 2011, payment of £400 from News International Trading, 1 Virginia Street, London E98 1XY, for an article for The Times newspaper. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 15 July 2011)
Payment of £150 from BBC for appearance on ‘Any Questions’ on 9 September 2011. Address: British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, 6 OB Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS82LR Hours: 50 mins. (Registered 22 September 2011)
9. Registrable shareholdings
(a) Faithful Group Ltd.

Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. More about the Register

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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.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/05 (ranking out of 659)2003/04 (ranking out of 658)2002/03 (ranking out of 657)2001/02 (ranking out of 657)
Staying away from main home£16,458 (400th) £22,368 (272nd) £18,595 (433rd) £18,421 £18,045 (396th) £18,726 (332nd) £19,022 (joint 363rd with 2 others) £10,620 (553rd)
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Office running costs£9,752 (581st) £5,638 (632nd) £10,110 (619th) £6,606 £10,120 (605th) £9,539 (636th) £9,167 (631st) £5,886 (611th)
Staffing costs£60,272 (632nd) £87,978 (316th) £63,408 (619th) £55,434 £51,802 (641st) £50,141 (636th) £51,924 (613th) £42,063 (468th)
Communications Allowance£387 (588th) £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£6,118 (373rd)1 £5,967 (398th)2 £5,930 (404th)3 £5,377 £10,682 (313th) £9,277 (353rd) £9,509 (346th) £7,748 (333rd)
Members' Staff Travel£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Members' Spouse Travel£234 (269th) £153 (joint 308th with 1 other) 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£2,865 (397th) £700 (360th) £194 (630th) £547 £528 (485th) £513 (502nd) £960 (joint 355th with 2 others) £413 (583rd)
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£2,540 (290th) £1,342 (532nd) £1,862 £1,076 (562nd) £1,195 (529th) N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,135 (joint 443rd with 1 other) £964 (472nd) £0 £1,945 (joint 204th with 5 others) £1,945 (joint 199th with 6 others) £1,945 (joint 196th with 6 others) £1,945 (joint 186th with 5 others)
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total£96,087 (634th) £126,479 (563rd) £100,543 (631st) £88,247 £94,198 (635th) £91,336 (629th) £92,527 (600th) £68,675 (606th)

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £6,053 (40th). Rail £65 (567th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £5,926 (55th). Rail £41 (573rd).

3 Car £5,930 (79th).