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Ian Mearns is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.
However, Ian Mearns sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:
We have lots more plain English analysis of Ian Mearns’s voting record on issues like health, welfare, taxation and more. Visit Ian Mearns’s full vote analysis page for more.
Ian Mearns has hardly ever rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.
I thank the Leader of the House for the business statement and for announcing the Backbench business for next Thursday, 22 April. I also associate myself with the comments about Dame Cheryl Gillan, who among many other things was a regular customer at the Backbench Business Committee and an excellent chair of the all-party parliamentary group on autism. Will the Leader of the House do...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on care home visiting during the covid-19 outbreak of the restriction by some private sector care homes of visits to residents by friends and families despite guidance from his Department that visits are permitted; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the closure of gym and fitness facilities as a result of the covid-19 restrictions on (a) physical and (b) mental public health.
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Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election
Ian Mearns campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC
Last updated: 12 Apr 2021.
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