Dawn Butler’s voting in Parliament

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

However, Dawn Butler sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Dawn Butler consistently voted against greater regulation of gambling, while most Labour MPs generally voted for. Show votes
• Dawn Butler generally voted for greater autonomy for schools, while most Labour MPs generally voted against. Show votes
• Dawn Butler generally voted for higher taxes on banks, while most Labour MPs generally voted against. Show votes

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

Dawn Butler

Last updated: 19 Apr 2017

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services: Registration 25 Apr 2017

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications to the National Dental Performers List are awaiting processing.

• Written Answers — Department for International Development: Iraq: Kurds 24 Apr 2017

  To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to make British medical aid available to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

• Business of the House: Points of Order 20 Apr 2017

  On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your guidance on the Prime Minister’s statement yesterday to the House, in which she stated that “leaving the election to 2020 would mean that we would be coming to the most sensitive and critical part of the negotiations in the run-up to a general election. That would be in nobody’s interests.”—[Official Report, 19 April...

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Profile

Labour MP for Brent Central

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Also represented Brent South

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

Social Media

• @dawnbutlerbrent

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Dawn Butler campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Department
• Department of Health
• Ministry of Justice
• Home Office
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Identity Cards
• NHS: Employment Agencies
• Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
• Extradition
• Personal Income

Currently held offices

• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Diverse Communities) (since 14 Jun 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Diverse Communities) (6 Oct 2016 to 1 Feb 2017)
• Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (3 Nov 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Young Citizens and Youth Engagement) (30 Oct 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Assistant Whip (17 Sep 2008 to 11 May 2010)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (12 Sep 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Children, Schools and Families Committee (9 Nov 2007 to 26 Jan 2009)
• Member, Children, Schools and Families Committee (7 Nov 2007 to 28 Jan 2009)
• PPS (Rt Hon Jane Kennedy, Minister of State), Department of Health (10 Nov 2005 to 8 May 2006)
• Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (13 Jul 2005 to 6 May 2010)

Future MPs in this constituency

• Sarah Teather

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill Committee (18 out of 18)
• Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Pensions Bill Committee (13 out of 20)
• Greater London Authority Bill Committee (8 out of 9)
• Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Health Bill Committee (12 out of 12)

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• Has spoken in 14 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs. See all Dawn Butler’s speeches
• Has received answers to 57 written questions in the last year — above 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 10 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 117 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Dawn Butler’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 76 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)