Jonathan Lord’s voting in Parliament

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

However, Jonathan Lord sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

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

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

Jonathan Lord has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Last updated: 8 May 2018

Recent appearances

• Solitary Confinement (Children and Young People) — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] 1 May 2018

  I am pleased about the overall reduction but, as the Minister says, there is now a cohort of perhaps more difficult offenders. I admired the eloquence of the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), but I do not think that she was able to answer my earlier question. If someone in a young offenders institution is a danger to themselves and others, what alternatives are there to...

• Solitary Confinement (Children and Young People) — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] 1 May 2018

  I am encouraged by a lot of what the Minister has said and I urge him to keep up the good work in his Department and with these institutions. Does he agree that, given that solitary confinement has a clear definition in this space, and no young people are subject to solitary confinement in the UK, that pejorative phrase should not be used in such debates? Where removal from association is...

• Solitary Confinement (Children and Young People) — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] 1 May 2018

  If a young person is a danger to themselves and others, what remedies, whether elsewhere in the world or in our system, is the hon. Lady recommending? Solitary confinement, as she puts it, is presumably being put in place largely for safety reasons for the young person concerned and those in the same institution as him or her.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Woking

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @JonathanLord

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Jonathan Lord campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Transport
• Cabinet Office
• Department for Education
• Department of Health
• Justice
• Railways: Woking
• Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
• Schools: Admissions
• General Practitioners: Woking
• GCSE: Children in Care

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Humfrey Malins
• Cranley Onslow
• Harold Watkinson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Intellectual Property Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Citizenship (Armed Forces) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Sports Grounds Safety Authority Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 4 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs. See all Jonathan Lord’s speeches
• Has received answers to 14 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 82.93% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 1 annotation on this MP’s speeches — 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.
• 169 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Jonathan Lord’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 51 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)