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Tom Levitt

Labour MP for High Peak

• Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
• Majority: 735 votes. — 614th 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 Tom Levitt voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted 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 very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for 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, Work and Pensions Committee (since 7 Nov 2007)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Work and Pensions, Health, Culture Media and Sport, Communities and Local Government

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Sight Impaired, Disabled People, Performance Targets, Digital Television, Bees: Diseases

(based on written questions asked by Tom Levitt and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill Committee (3 out of n/a)
• Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill Committee (18 out of n/a)
• Concessionary Bus Travel Bill Committee (2 out of n/a)
• Charities Bill Committee (9 out of n/a)
• International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)
• Commons Bill Committee (4 out of n/a)
• Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill Committee (12 out of n/a)
• Civil Defence (Grant) Bill Committee (1 out of n/a)

Most recent appearances

Written Answers — Home Department: Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (28 Oct 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of reducing from 16 to 14 the age at which section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 applies.”

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Property Development (28 Oct 2009)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of approved planning developments which have not proceeded pending resolution of applications to register land as a town or village green in the last five years.”

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009)

“I may not be the obvious Member of the House to speak about marine environments or coastal access, because we have neither coast nor marine environments in my constituency. However, High Peak is the philosophical home of the right to roam: we had the Kinder trespass in 1932 and the first open-access land designated under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, and we have more open-access...”

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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 39 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee (0 as chair).
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 86% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 3 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 89 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Tom Levitt speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 226 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

Register last updated: 28 Oct 2009. 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 – 2007/08 receipts.

^* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,556 (251st). Rail £7,351 (99th). Misc £6 (256th). Other: Rail £77 (131st).

^** Car £2,678 (348th). Rail £7,725 (74th). Air £588 (142nd). European £851 (48th).