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Lord Trimble
Conservative Peer, Former UUP MLA for Upper Bann
- Also represented Upper Bann
- Changed party from Crossbench on 16 Apr 2007
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- Entered the House of Lords on 6 June 2006
- Previously MP for Upper Bann until 11 April 2005 — General election (stood again)
- Positions held at time of appointment: Former Member of Parliament for Upper Bann; former Leader, Ulster Unionist Party. (from Number 10 press release)
- Entered Parliament on 17 May 1990 — unknown
- Entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 — General election
- Left the Assembly on 30 January 2007 — Dissolved for election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Lord Trimble voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly against more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
- Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Has never voted on allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted strongly against introducing student top-up fees. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against introducing a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Has never voted on a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Most recent appearances
- Debt Management Office — Question (20 Jul 2010)
“My Lords, coming back to the original Question, does my noble friend the Minister agree that an increase in the money supply would be highly desirable from the point of view of the recovery? If there has been no increase in the money supply because of the inter-relationship between debt management and quantitative easing, is that not something that should be looked at again?”
- European Council — Statement (21 Jun 2010)
“Further to the point made earlier by my noble friend Lord Higgins, I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to what happened under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates whereby on occasions Germany revalued the deutschmark upwards, thus taking account of the changes between it and other countries on competitiveness. Surely what we need in the eurozone is some mechanism of...”
- Economy: Eurozone — Question (21 Jun 2010)
“To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to members of the European Union to protect the British economy from the financial situation in the eurozone.”
More of Lord Trimble's recent appearances
Numerology
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- Has spoken in 17 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords.
- Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
- Responsiveness to messages sent via WriteToThem.com in 2005: Too little data for valid analysis.
- Has voted in 31% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 1 annotation on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
- 21 people are tracking whenever this peer speaks — email me whenever Lord Trimble speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 65 times in debates — above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)
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 | £835 | £15,363 (480th) | £16,618 (419th) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £18,009 (joint 2nd with 55 others) | |||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Office running costs | £4,991 | £19,314 (joint 120th with 2 others) | £14,085 (590th) | £11,057 (610th) | £4,651 (623rd) | |||
| Staffing costs | £17,069 | £48,395 (648th) | £64,273 (joint 458th with 31 others) | £62,236 (392nd) | £39,119 (529th) | |||
| Communications Allowance | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £426 | £18,974 (70th) | £15,286 (137th) | £18,723 (67th) | £8,514 (297th) | |||
| Members' Staff Travel | £0 | £1,885 (84th) | £1,844 (61st) | £796 (198th) | £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 | £826 (348th) | £269 (605th) | £979 (340th) | £841 (393rd) | |||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | N/A | N/A | £0 | £2,954 (274th) | £479 (624th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,083 | £1,083 (640th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Other Costs | £34,630 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |||
| Total | £59,034 | £108,794 (560th) | £112,854 (464th) | £113,513 (314th) | £71,134 (586th) |