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Tony Baldry
Conservative MP for Banbury
- Second Church Estates Commissioner (since 21 Jun 2010) (note about dates)
- Entered Parliament on 9 June 1983 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Tony Baldry voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately against more EU integration. votes
- Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: International Development, Health, Home Department, Work and Pensions, Communities and Local Government
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Asylum Seekers, Iraq, Asylum and Immigration, Departmental Accounts, Businesses: Orders and Regulations
(based on written questions asked by Tony Baldry and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Crime and Security Bill Committee (9 out of 12)
- Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
- Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Climate Change Bill Committee (7 out of 10)
- International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill Committee (6 out of 9)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Employment Law (Beecroft Report) (21 May 2012)
“Adrian Beecroft, who is a constituent of mine, has spent a considerable amount of time on this report. Would it not be sensible for right hon. and hon. Members to take the time to read what he has to say before expressing views on a document, the conclusions of which none of them has yet had the opportunity to consider? When they do get around to reading it, perhaps the only test should be...”
- Written Answers — Health: Palliative Care (21 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment his Department has made of the effects of electronic palliative care co-ordination systems on choice at the end of life; (2) what plans his Department has to encourage the use of electronic palliative care co-ordination systems.”
- Written Answers — Health: Palliative Care (21 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consideration his Department has given to improving access to social care to improve choice for people at the end of life.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 99 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 72 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 84.75% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 19 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 19–20 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") 1379 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
1. Remunerated directorships
Deputy Chairman, Woburn Energy plc, 16 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0AF; AIM listed company specialising in oil exploration and recovery. Work includes attending meetings and advising on business opportunities.
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 25 May 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 29 June 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 27 July 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 31 August 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 27 September 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 5 hrs. (Registered 28 November 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 29 December 2011)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 27 January 2012)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 28 February 2012)
Received payment of £3,333 Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 27 March 2012)
Taha & Partners Ltd (non-executive); investment and business development in Iraq. Address: Barbican House, 26 – 34 Old Street, London EC1V 9QR. Work includes attending meetings and advising on business opportunities.
HCFI Limited (non-executive); a publicly quoted company in Egypt, with a range of commercial activities from aviation and tourism to medical equipment. Resigned from directorship in October 2011, rejoined Board in December 2011.
Received directors’ fees of £10,000. Hours: 12 hrs. (Registered 2 June 2011)
Received directors’ fees of £30,000. Hours: 35 hrs. (Registered 14 February 2012)
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Practising barrister, arbitrator and mediator.
Zaiwalla & Co., solicitors. Address: Sarosh Zaiwalla Esq., Zaiwalla & Co., 46-47 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JE.
Received fee of £25,000 for advising clients. Hours: 25 hrs. (Registered 25 May 2011)
Received fee of £50,000 for advising clients. Hours: 50 hrs. (Registered 25 May 2011)
Received fee of £25,000 for advising clients. Hours: 27 hrs. (Registered 13 June 2011)
Received fee of £25,000 for advising clients. Hours: 28 hrs. (Registered 29 June 2011)
Received fee of £25,000 for advising clients. Hours: 28 hrs. (Registered 13 July 2011)
Received £7,200 for legal work. Hours: 10 hrs. (Registered 16 April 2012)
Received legal fees of £12,000 by direct access. Hours: 16 hrs. (Registered 24 May 2011)
Received legal fees of £3,900 by direct access. Hours: 7 hrs. (Registered 13 July 2011)
Payments from Penningtons, solicitors, of Abacus House, 33 Gutter Lane, London EC2V 8AR, for advising clients:
Received £4,560. Hours: 7 hrs. (Registered 16 February 2012)
Received £2,850. Hours: 5 hrs. (Registered 28 February 2012)
Received from Barlow Robbins Solicitors, The Oriel, Sydenham Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3SR, £3,120 for providing legal advice. Hours: 6 hrs. (Registered 8 March 2012)
Executive Partner in Diamond Film Partnership; a UK partnership promoting UK film and television production rights.
Received from the New Law Centre, 52/2 Nikolayamskaya St, Moscow: £17,500 for legal advice. Hours: 24 hrs. (Registered 19 March 2012)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
Name of donor: Lighting Industry Association Limited
Address of donor: Ground Floor, Westminster Tower, 3 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SL
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: I employ a research assistant who receives £700 per month direct from the Lighting Industry Association Limited, solely in connection with work that she does in support of the Associate All-Party Lighting Group.
Date of receipt: May 2011
Date of acceptance: May 2011
Donor status: company, registration 0604111
(Registered 17 May 2011)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Shaheed Nanak Singh Foundation
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £1,200
Destination of visit: Delhi and Patiala
Date of visit: 12-15 January 2012
Purpose of visit: To attend the fourth Shaheed Nanak Singh Memorial Lecture given by General JJ Singh, Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and former chief of the Indian Army
(Registered 18 January 2012)
7. Overseas benefits and gifts
See above under Category 2.
8. Land and Property
A cottage in Oxfordshire.
9. Registrable shareholdings
(b) Petroquest Ltd (owns shares in Westminster Oil Limited)
(b) Mastermailer plc; supplier of secure stationery
(b) Woburn Energy plc.
(b) Target Resources plc; gold and diamond mining in Sierra Leone
Register last updated: 30 Apr 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 | £7,829 (544th) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £2,596 (584th) | £12,079 | £19,007 (357th) | £17,348 (398th) | £17,700 (443rd) | £14,600 (398th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £14,379 (455th) | £11,124 (565th) | £21,916 (189th) | £19,843 | £19,121 (209th) | £16,411 (546th) | £18,149 (315th) | £10,946 (491st) |
| Staffing costs | £92,828 (387th) | £87,509 (331st) | £85,788 (266th) | £70,557 | £68,107 (450th) | £68,524 (214th) | £69,212 (joint 77th with 28 others) | £57,264 (36th) |
| Communications Allowance | £21,856 (4th) | £16,129 (15th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £4,454 (478th)1 | £4,996 (467th)2 | £4,656 (483rd)3 | £4,434 | £6,645 (476th) | £5,886 (486th) | £7,359 (437th) | £5,726 (436th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £0 | £0 | £15 | £154 (joint 390th with 2 others) | £0 | £18 (joint 461st with 1 other) | £125 (387th) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £106 (304th) | £155 (307th) | 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 | £3,739 (joint 298th with 1 other) | £784 (joint 320th with 1 other) | £1,282 (200th) | £877 | £1,091 (260th) | £715 (397th) | £1,202 (joint 251st with 1 other) | £1,521 (166th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £2,205 (345th) | £3,815 (210th) | £2,969 | £2,693 (306th) | £2,948 (270th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,159 (joint 397th with 2 others) | £1,345 (31st) | £40 | £1,537 (joint 564th with 1 other) | £1,497 (560th) | £1,447 (566th) | £1,447 (492nd) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £145,190 (384th) | £147,144 (318th) | £121,398 (543rd) | £110,814 | £118,355 (435th) | £113,329 (459th) | £115,087 (joint 277th with 1 other) | £91,629 (243rd) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,292 (156th). Rail £162 (548th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £4,261 (182nd). Rail £36 (575th). Other: European £699 (84th).
3 Car £3,533 (276th). Rail £159 (532nd). European £964 (43rd).