Angela Eagle’s voting in Parliament

Angela Eagle is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.

However, Angela Eagle sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Angela Eagle generally voted against introducing foundation hospitals, while most Labour MPs generally voted for. Show votes
• Angela Eagle generally voted for university tuition fees, while most Labour MPs generally voted against. Show votes

We have lots more plain English analysis of Angela Eagle’s voting record on issues like health, welfare, taxation and more. Visit Angela Eagle’s full vote analysis page for more.

Angela Eagle

Last updated: 19 Apr 2017

Recent appearances

• Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Zero-hours Contracts 27 Jun 2017

  I welcome the Minister’s statement that the Government are determined to ensure that employees get their employment rights. Why, then, did the Government introduce the huge fees for access to employment tribunals? Will they now abolish those fees?

• Brexit and Foreign Affairs 26 Jun 2017

  This Queen’s Speech is not a plan for a Government at the height of their powers with a refreshed mandate. It is a legislative programme for a Government in a holding pattern, led by an isolated and humiliated Prime Minister who has been shorn of her authority after a bruising encounter with the electorate in an election that she chose to call three years early. She flunked the test...

• Grenfell Tower 22 Jun 2017

  As the leader of a party that is responsible for seven years of austerity, which has cut 56% of the cash available to my local authority in the past seven years, and has spent its time talking about regulation as a bad thing, is the right hon. Lady now going to apologise to the country for the state of local government, when the richest borough in London could not cope with this emergency,...

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Profile

Labour MP for Wallasey

Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Social Media

• @angelaeagle
• https://facebook.com/angela4labour

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Angela Eagle campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Treasury
• Health
• Department for Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Education
• Work and Pensions
• Departmental Redundancy
• Partnership Agreements
• Race Relations
• Pay Audits
• NHS: Pensions

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (14 Sep 2015 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Member, Palace of Westminster (Joint Committee) (16 Jul 2015 to 16 Sep 2015)
• Member, House of Commons Commission (13 Jul 2015 to 14 Sep 2015)
• Member, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (7 Dec 2011 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (7 Oct 2011 to 14 Sep 2015)
• Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Shadow Minister (Treasury) (12 May 2010 to 8 Oct 2010)
• The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (9 Jun 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (19 Nov 2007 to 26 Oct 2009)
• The Exchequer Secretary (29 Jun 2007 to 9 Jun 2009)
• Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee (1 Aug 2005 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Treasury Sub-committee (27 Jan 2003 to 11 Jul 2005)
• Member, Treasury Committee (27 Jan 2003 to 6 Nov 2007)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (16 Oct 2002 to 3 Mar 2003)
• Parliamentary Secretary (Home office) (11 Jun 2001 to 28 May 2002)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security) (28 Jul 1998 to 7 Jun 2001)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (6 May 1997 to 29 Jul 1998)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (1 Jun 1996 to 1 May 1997)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (28 Nov 1995 to 11 Nov 1996)
• Member, Employment Committee (25 Apr 1994 to 17 Oct 1996)
• Member, Members' Interests Committee (27 Apr 1992 to 8 Nov 1995)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Lynda Chalker
• Ernest Marples
• George Reakes
• John Moore-Brabazon
• Robert Chadwick
• Bouverie McDonald

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 18)
• Finance Bill Committee (23 out of 24)
• Banking Bill Committee (15 out of 17)
• Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Civil Partnership Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Social Security Fraud Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

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• Has spoken in 48 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs. See all Angela Eagle’s speeches
• Has received answers to 22 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• People have made 50 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 105 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Angela Eagle’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 1068 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)