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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.

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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 Stephen Timms voted on key issues since 2001:

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

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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, 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

(based on written questions asked by Stephen Timms and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (16 out of n/a)
• Child Poverty Bill Committee (8 out of n/a)
• Finance Bill Committee (10 out of n/a)
• Rights of Savers Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Energy Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)
• Communications Bill Committee (17 out of n/a)
• Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Education Bill Committee (15 out of n/a)
• Social Security Contributions Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Finance Bill Committee (7 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

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

Register last updated: 6 Jan 2010. 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.