Phillip Lee’s voting in Parliament

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

This is a selection of Phillip Lee’s votes.

• Consistently voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes
• Generally voted for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax") Show votes
• Consistently voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes
• Generally voted against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes
• Generally voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs Show votes
• Consistently voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits Show votes

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

Phillip Lee has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Breast Ironing: Prosecutions 20 Sep 2016

  The information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Mental Capacity 16 Sep 2016

  The Ministry of Justice plan to publish a report on the use of section 44 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in due course.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Prisoners: Females 16 Sep 2016

  Prisoners’ status under the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme will move during the course of their imprisonment to reflect their pattern of behaviour and engagement with their rehabilitation, so that some may have been on the basic level on multiple occasions in each period, and sentence length and the duration of time spent on basic will vary for each prisoner and each...

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Conservative MP for Bracknell

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
• Energy and Climate Change
• Department of Health
• Treasury
• Education
• Departmental Public Expenditure
• Blood: Contamination
• Clinical Commissioning Groups
• Wind Power
• Pharmacy: Standards

Currently held offices

• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (since 17 Jul 2016)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Administration Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 3 Dec 2012)
• Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Andrew MacKay

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Citizenship (Armed Forces) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Energy Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• Sports Grounds Safety Authority Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs. See all Phillip Lee’s speeches
• Has received answers to 8 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 87.50% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — 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 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 119 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Phillip Lee’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 97 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)