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Stephen Twigg
Labour MP for Liverpool, West Derby
- Also represented Enfield, Southgate
- Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Stephen Twigg voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Has never voted on more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Education, Justice, Health, Work and Pensions
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Reading: Primary Education, Departmental Domestic Visits, UN World Conference Against Racism, Disability Living Allowance, Dangerous Dogs
(based on written questions asked by Stephen Twigg and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Education Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- School Transport Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Primary School Places (16 Jan 2012)
“How many primary school places could the Government fund with the money that the Secretary of State has proposed be spent on a new royal yacht? Does he regret his rushed decision in 2010 to abolish the Labour Government’s primary capital programme and would it not have been better to have reformed that programme to focus on the serious shortage of primary school places?”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Primary School Places (16 Jan 2012)
“Indeed, Mr Speaker. The Government have found £1.2 billion for new places, half of which is being spent on new free schools. Although 90% of the extra places that are needed by 2015 are in primary schools, the majority of the new free schools announced late last year are secondary schools. Instead of his dogmatic and ideological preference for his pet project, would it not make more...”
- Written Answers — Education: Email (11 Jan 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether (a) he and (b) his special advisers (1) sought legal advice as to whether the deletion of private emails concerning Government business sent or received by him or his special advisers constitutes a breach of section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000; (2) have used private email accounts to discuss the possible dismissal of...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 43 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 51 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2005, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 68.30% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below 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") 256 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source).
| Type | 2008/09 | 2007/08 | 2006/07 | 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 | £5,280 (612th) | £3,759 (606th) | |||
| London costs | £253 | £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) | £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) | £1,130 (joint 83rd with 26 others) | |||
| Office running costs | £0 | £9,664 (610th) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £16,797 (490th) | £3,825 (636th) | |||
| Staffing costs | £17,479 | £87,177 (7th) | £74,985 (joint 8th with 27 others) | £72,310 (joint 1st with 23 others) | £63,951 (7th) | |||
| Communications Allowance | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £0 | £470 (645th) | £1,488 (626th) | £1,476 (629th) | £1,456 (joint 613th with 1 other) | |||
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Members' Spouse Travel | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £0 | £2,498 (73rd) | £1,150 (201st) | £1,298 (217th) | £1,850 (94th) | |||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | N/A | N/A | £0 | £11,054 (36th) | £5,440 (96th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £0 | £1,840 (joint 408th with 3 others) | £1,840 (joint 401st with 3 others) | £1,840 (joint 391st with 3 others) | £1,840 (joint 357th with 3 others) | |||
| Other Costs | £20,026 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Total | £37,758 | £114,321 (499th) | £105,276 (562nd) | £100,528 (536th) | £77,811 (515th) |