A selection of Ian Murray's votes

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• Voted a mixture of for and against a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU Show votes 2 votes for, 2 votes against, 6 absences, between 2011–2016
• Voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 4 absences, in 2016
• Consistently voted against reducing central government funding of local government Show votes 0 votes for, 8 votes against, between 2010–2019
• Consistently voted for a wholly elected House of Lords Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016
• Voted for a more proportional system for electing MPs Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 3 absences, between 2010–2016
• Consistently voted against encouraging occupational pensions Show votes 0 votes for, 2 votes against, 1 absence, in 2011

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Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Home Office: British Nationals Abroad: Syria 5 Nov 2019

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of local authority capacity to support British children returning from North east Syria.

• Written Answers — Home Office: Proof of Identity: Scotland 5 Nov 2019

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people in Scotland who do not have a (a) passport and (b) driving licence.

• Child Poverty in Scotland — [Sir David Crausby in the Chair] 30 Oct 2019

  My hon. Friend mentioned the key fact from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: much of the debate tends to focus on people being out of work, when in fact most children living in poverty in Scotland are from families and households who are in work. The previous Labour Government took 120,000 children in Scotland out of poverty through measures such as tax credits and the national minimum wage....

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Profile

Former Labour MP for Edinburgh South

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

Left the House of Commons on 6 November 2019 — Dissolved for election

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Social Media

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Ian Murray campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Home Office
• HM Treasury
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Employment Tribunals Service
• Royal Mail
• Social Security Benefits: Scotland
• Asylum: Housing
• Land Registry

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Foreign Affairs Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Foreign Affairs Committee (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee (5 Sep 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Public Accounts Commission (4 Nov 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland (8 May 2015 to 26 Jun 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) (7 Oct 2011 to 8 May 2015)
• Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (2 Nov 2010 to 24 Oct 2011)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 10 Dec 2012)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (formerly Quadripartite Committee) (12 Jul 2010 to 24 Oct 2011)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Nigel Griffiths
• Michael Ancram
• Michael Hutchison
• William Darling
• Samuel Chapman
• Charles Murray
• James Parrott
• Arthur Dewar
• Charles Lyell
• Arthur Dewar
• Andrew Agnew
• Arthur Dewar
• Herbert Paul
• Robert Cox
• Herbert Paul
• Hugh Childers
• George Harrison

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Data Protection Bill Committee (5 out of 8)
• Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Committee (15 out of 16)
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (17 out of 17)
• Growth and Infrastructure Bill Committee (13 out of 14)
• Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Wreck Removal Convention Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (13 out of 14)
• Daylight Saving Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 90 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs. See all Ian Murray’s speeches
• Has received answers to 79 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 80.78% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 92 people are tracking this MP
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 471 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)