Rebecca Harris’s voting in Parliament

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

However, Rebecca Harris sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Rebecca Harris consistently voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, while most Conservative MPs generally voted against. Show votes

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

Rebecca Harris has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Online Abuse 7 Jul 2016

  Does my hon. Friend agree that we could take that slightly further? I have knocked on the doors of people who have been particularly abusive, and they crumble.

• Online Abuse 7 Jul 2016

  Tragically, online abuse has become part of all our lives. I have been subject to it, although I am not a member of a minority religion or race. Like many hon. Members I have received online abuse. Nothing has really hurt or affected me terribly, but on one occasion I simply posted some comments about boy racers who were causing antisocial behaviour. Within about an hour I was being abused...

• Support for Life-shortening Conditions — [Andrew Percy in the Chair] 7 Jun 2016

  I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) on instigating this debate. Life-shortening illness is an issue that many hon. Friends will have experience of from their surgeries; it is invariably moving and humbling. I felt driven to speak in this debate because of a constituent of mine, a truly inspirational young woman called Lucy Watts. Lucy is 22 and suffers from a...

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Profile

Conservative MP for Castle Point

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

• Maiden speech
• Wikipedia page
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Health
• Transport
• Communities and Local Government
• Home Department
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Visual Impairment
• Roads: Accidents
• Railways: Accidents
• Private Sector Investment
• Met Office

Currently held offices

• Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (since 12 Oct 2015)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (3 Dec 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Bob Spink
• Christine Butler
• Bob Spink
• Bernard Braine

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Immigration Bill Committee (15 out of 15)
• Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Offender Rehabilitation Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Consumer Rights Bill Committee (14 out of 15)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Scrap Metal Dealers Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Daylight Saving Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Postal Services Bill Committee (19 out of 21)

Numerology

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More about this

• Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs. See all Rebecca Harris’s speeches
• Has received answers to 2 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 92.86% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below 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.
• 111 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Rebecca Harris’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 65 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)