Jeremy Hunt’s voting in Parliament

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

This is a selection of Jeremy Hunt’s votes.

• Voted a mixture of for and against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes
• Consistently voted for greater restrictions on campaigning by third parties, such as charities, during elections Show votes
• Generally voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs Show votes
• Consistently voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices Show votes
• Consistently voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes
• Generally voted for reducing central government funding of local government Show votes

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

Jeremy Hunt has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health: Katrina Percy 15 Sep 2016

  NHS Improvement (NHSI) regularly updates me on the performance of both the organisations for which it has responsibility and those which it regulates using agreed frameworks. I meet regularly with the Chief Executive of NHSI as well as with a number of the organisation’s other senior leaders. Our discussions cover a number of issues falling under NHSI’s remit, including, where...

• Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Illness: Children 14 Sep 2016

  Provisional data provided by NHS Digital record the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of a mental and behavioural disorder where the patient age was between 0 and 18 years, for the year 2015-16 as: Activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector Year FAEs 2015-16 12,231 ...

• Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Illness: Children 14 Sep 2016

  The data for 2015-16 is not yet available.

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Profile

Conservative MP for South West Surrey

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

• Maiden speech
• 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

• Culture Media and Sport
• Children
• Schools and Families
• Work and Pensions
• Health
• Treasury
• Departmental Information Officers
• Tourism
• Departmental Plants
• National Lottery
• Departmental Staff

Currently held offices

• The Secretary of State for Health (since 6 Sep 2012)

Other offices held in the past

• The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (12 May 2010 to 6 Sep 2012)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (3 Jul 2007 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, International Development Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 24 Jul 2006)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (10 May 2005 to 3 Jul 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Virginia Bottomley
• Maurice Macmillan

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (12 out of 12)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 21 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs. See all Jeremy Hunt’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 84.23% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 17 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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.
• 257 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Jeremy Hunt’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 1056 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)