Andrew Mitchell’s voting in Parliament

Andrew Mitchell is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.

However, Andrew Mitchell sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Andrew Mitchell consistently voted for allowing terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their life, while most Conservative MPs generally voted against. Show votes

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Andrew Mitchell

Last updated: 19 Apr 2017

Recent appearances

• Debate on the Address: [1st Day] 21 Jun 2017

  It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz), who always speaks a good deal of sense on these occasions. I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and I should like to thank my constituents for so generously returning me to represent them in this place for a fifth time. This is clearly going to be...

• Debate on the Address: [1st Day] 21 Jun 2017

  My hon. Friend has got that absolutely right. Indeed, that is very much the point I am trying to make. My suggestion to my right hon. and hon. Friends is that we let our negotiator get on with this task without undue noises off. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union clearly has the skills and experience to deliver the best deal. I am sure that we should...

• Debate on the Address: [1st Day] 21 Jun 2017

  My hon. Friend is making, with great eloquence, the point I am trying to make: we need to have a national debate. We cannot continue with this sticking plaster approach on all these matters. Let me conclude my remarks, so that others can get in, by ending on a consensual note. It would be churlish of this House not to recognise the effective election campaign waged by the Leader of the...

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Profile

Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield

Entered the House of Commons on 11 June 1987 — General election

Also represented Gedling

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Andrew Mitchell campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• International Development
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Home Department
• Health
• Transport
• Local Government and the Regions
• Burma
• Initiatives (Funding)
• Burma: Overseas Aid
• Sudan: Peacekeeping Operations
• Afghanistan

Other offices held in the past

• Chief Whip (4 Sep 2012 to 19 Oct 2012)
• The Secretary of State for International Development (12 May 2010 to 6 Sep 2012)
• Shadow Secretary of State (Home Office) (20 May 2005 to 6 May 2010)
• Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) (10 Sep 2004 to 20 May 2005)
• Member, Draft Charities Bill (Joint Committee) (29 Apr 2004 to 15 Sep 2004)
• Shadow Minister (Treasury) (10 Nov 2003 to 10 Sep 2004)
• Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (4 Dec 2002 to 22 Jan 2004)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (16 Jul 2001 to 6 May 2003)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security) (6 Jul 1995 to 1 May 1997)
• Government Whip (20 Jul 1994 to 6 Jul 1995)
• Member, Members' Interests Committee (20 Jun 1994 to 17 Jul 1995)
• Vice-Chair, Conservative Party (1 Jul 1992 to 1 Jul 1993)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (11 Jan 1992 to 20 Jul 1994)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Norman Fowler
• Geoffrey Lloyd
• John Mellor

Future MPs in this constituency

• Norman Fowler

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 3)
• Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Divorce (Religious Marriages) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

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• Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs. See all Andrew Mitchell’s speeches
• Has received answers to 18 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• People have made 5 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 120 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Andrew Mitchell’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 601 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)