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Tom Watson
Labour MP for West Bromwich East
- Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Tom Watson voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. 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 strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Home Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Culture Media and Sport, Health, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Internet, Departmental Official Cars, Demos, Departmental Theft, Departmental Manpower
(based on written questions asked by Tom Watson and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law Of Succession) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Protection of Freedoms Bill Committee (12 out of 20)
- Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Financial Services Bill Committee (7 out of 14)
- Children, Schools and Families Bill Committee (1 out of 12)
- Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Crossrail Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
- National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
- Finance Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Consumer Credit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Gambling Bill Committee (2 out of 14)
- Human Tissue Bill Committee (1 out of 8)
- Civil Partnership Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
- Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 21)
- Gambling Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
- National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Fireworks Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Retirement Income Reform Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Communications Bill Committee (10 out of 25)
- Proceeds of Crime Bill Committee (26 out of 39)
Most recent appearances
- Business of the House (2 Feb 2012)
“A debate on the future of the Freedom of Information Act would allow us to test the use of private e-mails by Ministers. I fear that my constituents are losing out because Sandwell council may not have been able to test the validity of the decision to cut the Building Schools for the Future programme from £120 million to zero. However, there is a way of getting round that, which is for...”
- Written Answers — Home Department: Members: Surveillance (1 Feb 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what safeguards her Department has put in place to ensure that hon. Members do not have their telephone conversations covertly heard by (a) the police, (b) the Serious Organised Crime Agency and (c) other Government agencies.”
- Written Answers — Home Department: Telephone Tapping: Warrants (31 Jan 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many interception warrants for telephone tapping she has authorised under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 since December 2010.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 34 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 96 written questions in the last year — 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 45.88% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 16 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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") 156 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payments from Guardian News and Media Ltd. Address:, 1 Scott Place, Manchester M3 3GG.
Received £100 for 2 articles in the Guardian. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 22 September 2010)
Payment of £75 from Populus, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0AT, received 18 March 2011, for opinion research in February 2011. Hours: 15 mins. Payment donated to constituency party. (Registered 21 April 2011)
Payment of £75, received 26 May 2011, for opinion research in March 2011. Hours: 15 mins. Payment donated to constituency party. (Registered 13 June 2011)
Payment of £75, received 16 June 2011, for opinion research in May 2011. Hours: 30 mins. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 28 June 2011)
Payment of £1,500 from Hat Trick Productions Ltd, 10 Livona St, London W1F 8AF, for appearance on ‘Have I Got News For You’. Hours: 6 hrs. (Registered 9 January 2012)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Unite the Union
Address of donor: 128 Theobalds Rd, London WC1X 8TN
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): Flights and hotel; total cost £6,300
Destination of visit: Los Angeles, USA
Date of visit: 20-23 October 2011
Purpose of visit: to visit the News Corporation Annual General Meeting in the United States in order to raise the issue of company reform as a result of the UK police investigation into phone hacking.
(Registered 14 November 2011)
Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. 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 – 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 | £14,487 (441st) | £16,069 (475th) | £19,740 (398th) | £19,029 | £13,995 (506th) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £19,567 (310th) | £17,997 (66th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £470 (123rd) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £16,882 (362nd) | £19,927 (243rd) | £24,459 (106th) | £22,259 | £19,325 (joint 11th with 77 others) | £18,761 (joint 295th with 4 others) | £17,533 (442nd) | £24,140 (84th) |
| Staffing costs | £78,304 (584th) | £82,801 (475th) | £82,748 (joint 383rd with 1 other) | £78,203 | £75,593 (joint 129th with 1 other) | £74,552 (56th) | £72,310 (joint 1st with 23 others) | £54,884 (73rd) |
| Communications Allowance | £5,978 (449th) | £8,309 (313th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £6,414 (362nd)1 | £6,711 (366th)2 | £6,519 (365th)3 | £6,991 | £10,548 (320th) | £9,599 (338th) | £14,826 (145th) | £10,844 (173rd) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £397 (joint 187th with 1 other) | £539 (197th) | £684 (178th) | £0 | £69 (436th) | £1,519 (joint 98th with 1 other) | £235 (363rd) | £1,035 (joint 129th with 1 other) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £414 (217th) | £646 (joint 175th with 1 other) | 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 | £6,990 (23rd) | £1,709 (61st) | £4,823 (14th) | £3,556 | £4,836 (23rd) | £2,273 (46th) | £1,497 (163rd) | £4,269 (7th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £5,280 (36th) | £11,366 (26th) | £7,108 | £12,761 (26th) | £7,746 (45th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,257 (joint 253rd with 2 others) | £1,049 (349th) | £0 | £2,000 (joint 67th with 7 others) | £2,000 (joint 60th with 7 others) | £2,000 (joint 60th with 7 others) | £2,000 (joint 59th with 7 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £8,852 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £129,866 (543rd) | £143,248 (377th) | £151,388 (73rd) | £145,998 | £139,597 (65th) | £136,783 (54th) | £127,968 (43rd) | £115,169 (11th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £6,414 (125th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,261 (488th). Rail £5,450 (167th).