Therese Coffey’s voting in Parliament

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

However, Therese Coffey sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Therese Coffey voted against investigations into the Iraq war, while most Conservative MPs generally voted for. Show votes

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

Therese Coffey has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Work and Pensions: Covid-19: Meeting Increased Demand for Services 29 Jun 2020

  I want to praise our excellent jobcentre staff and all Department for Work and Pensions staff and contractors for their tireless work through this emergency in supporting an unprecedented level of new claimants as well as existing claimants. To assist this effort, we redeployed thousands of staff and streamlined our processes where possible. Looking forward, we are now working with local...

• Work and Pensions: Covid-19: Meeting Increased Demand for Services 29 Jun 2020

  My hon. Friend is right to pay tribute to staff at his local jobcentre. Without the success of the furlough scheme introduced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, this could have been far worse. We are working hard across Government to help people in these challenging times to get back into work as soon as possible and to support an economic recovery that levels up all parts of the...

• Work and Pensions: Covid-19: Meeting Increased Demand for Services 29 Jun 2020

  My hon. Friend is spot on. The Department has acted at incredible pace to bring in measures as quickly as possible to help those most financially disadvantaged as a result of c-19. Through the digital universal credit system, we have enabled those changes while meeting that unprecedented demand. The legacy system, which was heavily paper-based, would simply have been unable to cope.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Social Media

• @theresecoffey
• https://facebook.com/ThereseCoffey

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Therese Coffey campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Transport
• Health
• Treasury
• Justice
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Shipping: Oil
• A14
• Clinical Commissioning Groups
• Prisoners: Repatriation
• Tolls

Currently held offices

• The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (since 8 Sep 2019)

Other offices held in the past

• The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (29 Jul 2019 to 8 Sep 2019)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (10 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (17 Jul 2016 to 25 Jul 2019)
• The Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (8 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (15 Jul 2014 to 8 May 2015)
• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 29 Oct 2012)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Gummer

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Infrastructure Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Deep Sea Mining Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Growth and Infrastructure Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Marine Navigation (No. 2) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Wreck Removal Convention Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 12 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs. See all Therese Coffey’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 low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 91.04% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 561 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)