A selection of Nigel Mills's votes

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• Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits Show votes 46 votes for, 0 votes against, 8 absences, between 2012–2016
• Generally voted against more EU integration Show votes 15 votes for, 28 votes against, 6 absences, between 2011–2017
• Almost always voted for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax") Show votes 13 votes for, 0 votes against, 4 absences, between 2012–2014
• Almost always voted for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU Show votes 8 votes for, 1 vote against, 1 absence, between 2011–2016
• Consistently voted for encouraging occupational pensions Show votes 3 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2011
• Consistently voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 5 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2016

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Recent appearances

• Finance (No. 2) Bill 18 Apr 2017

  It is a pleasure to speak on this nice, brief and moderate Bill. I suspect the Bill that finally clears the House in the next couple of weeks will be a little thinner. I am not sure that I welcome the change to printing the Finance Bill in one block, rather than two; it feels worse. My speech will focus on the content of the Bill rather than on trying to start the general election campaign,...

• Finance (No. 2) Bill 18 Apr 2017

  I welcome more funding to help children to be healthy and more funding for sports. I especially welcome the fact that the largest employer in my constituency, Thorntons, as part of the Ferrero group, gives big funding to school sports. More funding for healthy activities for children has to be a good thing. I am a little nervous about hypothecating taxes for individual spending, because there...

• Finance (No. 2) Bill 18 Apr 2017

  I agree that changing what people consume without their knowing it, and without their having to change their own behaviour, will get the calorie reductions that we want. If that is the argument, I am intrigued about why we are going for the soft drinks industry, which has produced diet brands that use no sugar and contain no calories, and has innovated with things such as Coca-Cola Life that...

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Former Conservative MP for Amber Valley

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

Left the House of Commons on 3 May 2017 — Dissolved for election

• Wikipedia page
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Social Media

• @NigelMillsMP
• https://facebook.com/nigelmillsmp

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Nigel Mills campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health
• Transport
• HM Treasury
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Business
• Innovation and Skills
• E. coli
• Railways: Electrification
• Insolvency
• Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
• Railways: Tickets

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Administration Committee (20 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (7 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (6 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (29 Oct 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (28 Nov 2011 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Administration Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Judy Mallaber
• Philip Oppenheim

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
• Taxation of Pensions Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Immigration Bill Committee (9 out of 11)
• FINANCE BILL Committee (12 out of 16)
• Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform)Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Small Charitable Donations Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL Committee (4 out of 4)
• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Civil Aviation Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Identity Documents Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill Committee (18 out of 20)

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• Has spoken in 37 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs. See all Nigel Mills’s speeches
• Has received answers to 9 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 88.65% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 1 annotation 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.
• 85 people are tracking this MP
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 230 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)