Teresa Pearce’s voting in Parliament

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

This is a selection of Teresa Pearce’s votes.

• Consistently voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 5 votes against, between 2010–2017
• Voted for a more proportional system for electing MPs Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 3 absences, between 2010–2016
• 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
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 30 votes for, 12 votes against, 25 absences, between 2010–2018
• Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, in 2010
• Consistently voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016

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Teresa Pearce has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Last updated: 21 Feb 2018

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements 16 May 2018

  This afternoon, 1,000 handwritten letters will arrive at Downing Street asking the Prime Minister to intervene personally in the stalemate between NHS England and the drug company Vertex to get the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi issued to patients in the UK without delay. One of those letters is from seven-year-old Luis, who says: “Dear Mrs May, Please can you give Orkambi to me so I...

• Backbench Business - Banking Misconduct and the Fcabackbench Business: Crossrail Extension to Ebbsfleet 10 May 2018

  I have listened carefully to the Minister. Would he not accept that south-east London is massively underserved by transport compared with the rest of London, and that stopping at Abbey Wood does not help Bexley at all?

• Backbench Business - Banking Misconduct and the Fcabackbench Business: Crossrail Extension to Ebbsfleet 10 May 2018

  Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that this is about not just housing development, but business development? In Abbey Wood, which is in the middle of my constituency, a major new supermarket has opened ahead of the opening of Crossrail. That has happened completely because of the Crossrail effect.

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Profile

Labour MP for Erith and Thamesmead

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @tpearce003
• https://facebook.com/TeresaPearce2017

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Teresa Pearce campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Work and Pensions
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Department of Health
• Education
• Health
• Remploy
• Education Maintenance Allowance
• Students: Finance
• Employment Schemes
• Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention (7 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Shadow Minister (Housing) (18 Sep 2015 to 7 Oct 2016)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (7 Jul 2015 to 26 Oct 2015)
• Member, Treasury Committee (14 Nov 2011 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (2 Nov 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Austin

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (0 out of 6)
• Housing and Planning Bill Committee (18 out of 20)
• Affordable Homes bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Taxation of Pensions Bill Committee (3 out of 4)
• Control of Horses Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• FINANCE BILL Committee (14 out of 16)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
• FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL Committee (4 out of 4)
• Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Scrap Metal Dealers Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Financial Services Bill Committee (17 out of 18)
• Welfare Reform Bill Committee (22 out of 26)
• Pensions Bill Committee (8 out of 8)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 12 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs. See all Teresa Pearce’s speeches
• Has received answers to 11 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 77.22% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• 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 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 86 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)