A selection of Adam Price's votes

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• Consistently voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes
• Consistently voted against increasing the rate of VAT Show votes
• Consistently voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes
• Generally voted for a wholly elected House of Lords Show votes
• Consistently voted against university tuition fees Show votes
• Consistently voted for encouraging occupational pensions Show votes

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Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Defence: Low Flying 6 Apr 2010

  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many wind farm developers have agreed with his Department that low-flying aircraft activity may take place in the area of their wind farms.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Devolution Settlement 17 Mar 2010

  Why is it right for an English Minister to sit as judge and jury on the question of bilingual juries? Should this not be a decision made in Wales for Wales by a Welsh Government elected by the Welsh people?

• Business of the House: High Speed Rail 11 Mar 2010

  The Minister has stressed the economic benefits from HS2, but surely the corollary is that under his proposals, Wales will be the only nation in this island that will remain unconnected to the European high speed network, so it will be economically disadvantaged as a result. Will he explain to the people of Wales-they have, after all, loyally supported his party in successive elections-what...

More of Adam Price’s recent appearances

Profile

Former Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr

Entered the House of Commons on 7 June 2001 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

• Maiden speech
• Personal website
• Twitter feed
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Defence
• Trade and Industry
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Treasury
• Prime Minister
• Iraq
• Miners' Compensation
• Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
• Low Flying
• Departmental Databases

Other offices held in the past

• Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Transport; Business, Innovation and Skills; Treasury; Olympics; Energy and Climate Change) (21 Jul 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Transport) (7 Jan 2009 to 21 Jul 2009)
• Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence; Transport; Ministry of Justice) (29 Aug 2007 to 7 Jan 2009)
• Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government; Constitutional Affairs; Culture, Media and Sport; Defence) (20 Oct 2006 to 29 Aug 2007)
• Spokesperson (Energy; Trade & Industry; Transport; Treasury) (2 Aug 2006 to 20 Oct 2006)
• Spokesperson (Defence; Transport; Economy & Taxation; Miners Compensation; Regeneration; Trade & Industry) (16 Jan 2006 to 2 Aug 2006)
• Member, Culture, Media & Sport Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Spokesperson (Economy and Taxation; Education & Skills; Miner's Compensation; Regeneration; Trade & Industry) (19 Jan 2004 to 16 Jan 2006)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Alan Williams

Future MPs in this constituency

• Jonathan Edwards

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Pensions Bill Committee (16 out of 22)
• Finance Bill Committee (13 out of 16)

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More about this

• Has spoken in 21 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs. See all Adam Price’s speeches
• Has received answers to 22 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 57.69% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 9 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 46 people are tracking this MP
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 213 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)