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Stephen Pound
Labour MP for Ealing North
- Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Stephen Pound voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Home Department, Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, House of Commons Commission
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Forensic Science Service, Prison Service, Deportation: Convictions, Ict, Tenancy Money
(based on written questions asked by Stephen Pound and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Daylight Saving Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance Bill Committee (21 out of 24)
- Greater London Authority Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
- Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- Criminal Defence Service Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Police and Justice Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
- Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
- Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 3)
- Inquiries Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
- Gender Recognition Bill Committee (2 out of 6)
- Finance Bill Committee (15 out of 21)
- Civil Contingencies Bill Committee (5 out of 8)
- Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill Committee (17 out of 23)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Civil Aviation Bill (30 Jan 2012)
“The Irish Post?”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Private Sector Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
“I find the Minister of State’s selective comments to be quite extraordinary. The Queen of Hearts suggested that one should believe six impossible things every day before breakfast, but does the Minister seriously expect us to believe that a shrinking private sector can somehow compensate for the highest public sector job losses of any UK region? That sounds like “Alice in...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: High-speed Rail (10 Jan 2012)
“Further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), commencement is a long way down the line, but the contemporary concern in my constituency is blight and the fear of blight. The right hon. Lady has said that discussions on the details of mitigation will take place possibly this year and possibly next year. With respect, that is not good enough for...”
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- Has spoken in 40 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 9 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 72.38% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 7 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 273 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Received payment of £3,000 (before tax) for four articles written for The Sun newspaper between December 2009 and January 2010. Address: 1 Virginia Street, London E98 1SN. Hours: 10 hrs. (Registered 8 January 2010)
Payments from British Sky Broadcasting Ltd, Accounts Payable Department, 1 Macintosh Road, Kirkton Campus, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 7BW:
12 December 2010, received payment of £100 for paper review on Sky television. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 11 January 2011)
5 January 2011, received payment of £100 for paper review on Sky television. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 11 January 2011)
Received payment of £100 for paper review on Sky News on 24 December 2010. Hours: 1 hr 30 mins (Registered 3 February 2011)
26 January 2011
, received payment of £100 for paper review on Sky television. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 20 December 2011)
26 August
2011 received payment of £100 for paper review on Sky television. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 20 December 2011)
3 December 2010, I received 6 bottles of wine from the Spectator Magazine, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP., in consideration of a speech I gave earlier in the year. The wine was donated to charity. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 22 December 2010)
Payment
of £440 received on 5 November 2011 for lectures for Drew University. Address: 99 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LA. Hours: 4 hrs (Registered 20 December 2011)
Payment
of £200 received from Government Knowledge for presentations on 25 October 2011 and 8 November 2011. Address: 1 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BW Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 20 December 2011)
Payment of £100 received on 21 December 2011 for contribution to BBC Book Talk for BBC Parliament. Address: 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 5 January 2012)
Register last updated: 13 Jan 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.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (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 | £0 | £0 | £221 (590th) | £277 | £1,129 (607th) | £481 (609th) | £14,740 (528th) | £10,685 (551st) |
| London costs | £2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) | £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £127 (125th) | £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others) |
| Office running costs | £7,338 (619th) | £10,565 (579th) | £8,923 (627th) | £9,083 | £7,250 (636th) | £18,573 (391st) | £13,022 (583rd) | £5,871 (612th) |
| Staffing costs | £111,938 (5th) | £101,057 (11th) | £98,793 (5th) | £94,998 | £89,592 (6th) | £74,910 (45th) | £72,233 (33rd) | £64,166 (5th) |
| Communications Allowance | £7,634 (377th) | £9,854 (176th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £3,813 (512th)1 | £7,113 (344th)2 | £5,604 (430th)3 | £4,431 | £6,108 (494th) | £7,272 (427th) | £5,548 (502nd) | £4,952 (472nd) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| 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 | £4,770 (199th) | £1,157 (176th) | £1,160 (233rd) | £1,082 | £1,183 (240th) | £1,447 (joint 135th with 1 other) | £1,237 (joint 234th with 1 other) | £1,108 (294th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £2,685 (joint 270th with 1 other) | £3,245 (256th) | £3,099 | £3,230 (241st) | £3,559 (197th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,108 (joint 483rd with 1 other) | £1,006 (joint 416th with 5 others) | £1,022 | £1,904 (294th) | £1,904 (290th) | £1,874 (joint 350th with 2 others) | £1,874 (joint 330th with 1 other) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £1,599 (66th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £3,455 (33rd) | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £138,409 (474th) | £137,950 (435th) | £118,952 (561st) | £113,992 | £110,396 (542nd) | £111,601 (492nd) | £108,781 (419th) | £89,883 (295th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,676 (209th). Misc £137 (150th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,251 (184th). Misc £324 (92nd). Other: European £2,538 (7th).
3 Car £4,718 (167th). Air £754 (127th). European £132 (123rd).