A selection of Simon Danczuk's votes

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• Consistently voted against encouraging occupational pensions Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011
• Voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 4 absences, in 2016
• Consistently voted for raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices Show votes 5 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2013
• Consistently voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016
• Consistently voted for a wholly elected House of Lords Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016
• Voted a mixture of for and against more EU integration Show votes 16 votes for, 10 votes against, 23 absences, between 2010–2017

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Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Communities and Local Government: Public Houses: Closures 21 Mar 2017

  To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the removal of permitted development rights for the conversion or demolition of pubs on trends in pub closures.

• Petition - No. 31 Bus Service to Cheadle from Hanley: Parental Alienation 15 Mar 2017

  I have spent much of my time in this place investigating and exposing allegations of child sexual abuse. Politicians, the media and the state were too slow to highlight such abuse. Parental alienation is another form of child abuse that has gone both unreported and under-discussed. Such abuse is not properly recognised by the United Kingdom Government. While Westminster remains silent on the...

• Petition - No. 31 Bus Service to Cheadle from Hanley: Parental Alienation 15 Mar 2017

  I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, and I know that she has good knowledge of these issues from her time before coming to this place. She makes an extremely good point, which adds to the discussion and debate that I hope we will continue to have on this issue. I am sure we would all agree that it is not normal for a child, in a short space of time, to go from loving a parent to seeing...

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Former Labour MP for Rochdale

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

Left the House of Commons on 3 May 2017 — Dissolved for election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @SimonDanczuk
• https://facebook.com/SimonDanczuk

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Simon Danczuk campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Communities and Local Government
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Justice
• Work and Pensions
• Education
• Kashmir
• Bangladesh
• Children: Day Care
• Schools: Sports
• Social Security

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (2 Nov 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Paul Rowen
• Lorna Fitzsimons
• Liz Lynne
• Cyril Smith
• John McCann
• Wentworth Schofield
• Joseph Hale
• Hyacinth Morgan
• William Kelly
• Thomas Jesson
• William Kelly
• John Muir
• Stanley Burgess
• Alfred Law
• Alexander Harvey
• Clement Royds
• Thomas Potter
• Richard Cobden
• Alexander Ramsay
• Edward Miall
• William Sharman-Crawford
• John Entwisle
• John Fenton
• John Entwisle
• John Fenton

Future MPs in this constituency

• Tony Lloyd

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (13 out of 15)
• Growth and Infrastructure Bill Committee (9 out of 14)
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (15 out of 17)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 36 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs. See all Simon Danczuk’s speeches
• Has received answers to 7 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 63.17% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 2 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 81 people are tracking this MP
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 131 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)