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Stephen Timms

Labour MP for East Ham

  • Also represented Newham North East
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (since 10 Aug 2009)
    Financial Secretary, HM Treasury (since 6 Oct 2008)
  • Entered Parliament on 9 June 1994 — unknown
  • Majority: 13,155 votes. — 89th out of 643 MPs.

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

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Committees and topics of interest

Select Committee membership
  • Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) (since 13 Jan 2009)

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): UK Competitiveness

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Written Answers — Treasury: Billing: Enforcement (8 Feb 2010)

“HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) issued the following number of VAT default surcharges in the last six- and 12-month periods for which information is available: Number 1 August 2009 to 31 January 2010 276,141 1 February 2009 to 31 January 2010 537,077 Information is not readily available on VAT default surcharges issued to businesses of different size and could be obtained only at...”

Written Answers — Treasury: Corporation Tax (8 Feb 2010)

“The information requested is not available, as HM Revenue and Customs does not have the necessary data to calculate the revenue implications of the various aspects of the UK's corporation tax regime that provide relief for debt.”

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax (8 Feb 2010)

“Anti-avoidance rules are already in place in tax legislation to prevent the conversion of income into capital. The effectiveness of these rules is kept under review. Most recently, Finance Act 2009 introduced principles based legislation to address attempts to convert interest-like returns on investments into a capital gain (the disguised interest rules) and attempts to dispose of rights to...”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 31 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
  • 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 84% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 13 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
  • 104 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Stephen Timms speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 901 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Nil

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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£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
London costs£2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) £2,712 (joint 1st with 46 others) £2,613 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others)
Office running costs£4,904 (636th) £5,315 (636th) £12,653 (592nd) £14,370 £10,402 (599th) £11,803 (620th) £17,902 (388th) £9,362 (538th)
Staffing costs£97,695 (249th) £99,526 (24th) £93,994 (30th) £89,710 £86,456 (11th) £70,698 (169th) £71,734 (joint 54th with 1 other) £57,703 (32nd)
Communications Allowance£6,557 (421st) £4,953 (465th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £924 (joint 637th with 2 others) £912 (joint 638th with 1 other) £896 (joint 631st with 1 other)
Members' Staff Travel£0 £0 £0 £7 £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£4,272 (233rd) £744 (343rd) £1,446 (joint 171st with 1 other) £839 £966 (303rd) £435 (joint 548th with 1 other) £866 (joint 395th with 1 other) £976 (342nd)
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£2,485 (joint 296th with 2 others) £3,058 (284th) £2,644 £1,858 (428th) £1,190 (530th) N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,250 (joint 264th with 3 others) £1,065 (joint 305th with 9 others) £877 £1,844 (joint 401st with 1 other) £1,844 (joint 394th with 1 other) £1,844 (joint 385th with 1 other) £1,844 (joint 354th with 1 other)
Other Costs£0 £2,140 (51st) £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
Total£116,345 (605th) £119,225 (605th) £114,928 (586th) £111,060 £103,144 (597th) £88,468 (636th) £94,785 (591st) £72,008 (577th)