Ian Mearns’s voting in Parliament

Ian Mearns is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.

This is a selection of Ian Mearns’s votes.

• Consistently voted against greater restrictions on campaigning by third parties, such as charities, during elections Show votes 0 votes for, 12 votes against, between 2013–2016
• Consistently voted against encouraging occupational pensions Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011
• Consistently voted for a wholly elected House of Lords Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016
• Almost always voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 7 votes against, 4 absences, between 2011–2016
• Almost always voted against reducing central government funding of local government Show votes 0 votes for, 5 votes against, 1 absence, between 2010–2017
• Voted a mixture of for and against a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU Show votes 3 votes for, 2 votes against, 5 absences, between 2011–2016

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

Last updated: 19 Apr 2017

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 22 Jun 2017

  I welcome the Leader of the House to her place. Has she seen a copy of the letter that I, as the then Chair of the Backbench Business Committee, sent her predecessor asking whether, if there is any time for general debates before the Committee is established, the Leader of the House would consider giving time to Back-Bench business that was residual—debates that had not yet been...

• Business of the House 20 Apr 2017

  The Backbench Business Committee has concluded its business for this Parliament, and I am grateful to the Leader of the House because we have had our full allocation of Back-Bench time in the Chamber in this Session. We have half a dozen outstanding debate applications lying unheard and, if it is all right with the Leader of the House, I will ask our Committee Clerk to write to his office to...

• Written Answers — Department for Transport: Shipping: Apprentices 20 Apr 2017

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has been made of the number of UK-based seafarer rating apprentices that will be trained in the maritime industry in the next five years.

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Profile

Labour MP for Gateshead

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

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

Social Media

• @IanMearnsMP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

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

• Education
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Education
• Work and Pensions
• Health
• Departmental Public Expenditure
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• Ministerial Policy Advisers
• Schools: Vocational Guidance
• Academies

Other offices held in the past

• Chair, Backbench Business Committee (24 May 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee (25 Nov 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (10 Sep 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Education Committee (6 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Backbench Business Committee (18 Jun 2015 to 12 May 2016)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (30 Jun 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill (Commons) Committee (29 Apr 2014 to 7 Jul 2015)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (10 Jun 2013 to 14 May 2014)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (12 Jun 2012 to 25 Apr 2013)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (8 Nov 2010 to 1 May 2012)
• Member, Education Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Konni Zilliacus
• Thomas Magnay
• Herbert Evans
• James Melville
• John Beckett
• John Dickie
• John Brotherton
• Herbert Surtees
• Harold Elverston
• John Johnson
• William Allan
• Walter James
• William Hutt
• Cuthbert Rippon

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Trade Union Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Finance Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• FINANCE BILL Committee (16 out of 16)
• Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [LORDS] Committee (1 out of 1)
• FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL Committee (4 out of 4)
• Antarctic Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• HGV Road User Levy Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Terrorist Asset-Freezing Etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Localism Bill Committee (20 out of 24)

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• Has spoken in 32 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs. See all Ian Mearns’s speeches
• Has received answers to 31 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below 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.
• 111 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Ian Mearns’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 132 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)