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Stephen Timms
Labour MP for East Ham
- Also represented Newham North East
- Entered Parliament on 9 June 1994 — unknown
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Stephen Timms voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. 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 allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
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- Never rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Work and Pensions, Treasury, Culture Media and Sport, Communities and Local Government, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Universal Credit, Employment Schemes, Social Security Benefits, Work Programme, Employment and Support Allowance
(based on written questions asked by Stephen Timms and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (25 out of 26)
- Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance Bill Committee (16 out of 18)
- Child Poverty Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
- Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 14)
- Rights of Savers Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Energy Bill Committee (12 out of 14)
- Communications Bill Committee (17 out of 25)
- Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
- Education Bill Committee (15 out of 20)
- Social Security Contributions Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes (2 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average is of the single payments contracted to be made to mandatory work activity providers.”
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Programme (2 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many voluntary sector providers in the Work programme supply chain were identified through the stocktake of 31 January 2012.”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 51 — Period of entitlement to contributory allowance (1 Feb 2012)
“The hon. Lady set out the fact that there was objection at her party conference to an arbitrary time limit. Does she accept the case for setting the limit, whatever it should be, in regulations instead of in the Bill? Putting it in the Bill means that it will take another Act of Parliament to change it in future.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 49 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 284 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 73.91% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 22 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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") 1026 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
4. Sponsorships
(a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by my party to the Electoral Commission:
(a)
(a) Name of donor: David and Ros Cleevely
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 10 May 2011)
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.
| 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 | £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 (607th) | £119,225 (605th) | £114,928 (586th) | £111,060 | £103,144 (597th) | £88,468 (636th) | £94,785 (591st) | £72,008 (577th) |