Marion Fellows’s voting in Parliament

Marion Fellows is a Scottish National Party MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Scottish National Party MPs.

This is a selection of Marion Fellows’s votes.

• Consistently voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, between 2015–2016
• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Consistently voted against a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU Show votes 0 votes for, 0 votes against, between 2015–2016
• Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes 0 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2016
• Has never voted on reducing central government funding of local government
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 35 votes for, 7 votes against, 17 absences, between 2017–2019

Last updated: 4 Sep 2019. Please share these votes responsibly.

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

Marion Fellows has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Prison Officers: Pension Age 8 Oct 2019

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson. I congratulate the hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Gordon Henderson) for securing this important debate. Prison officers are another group in a long line of people in the UK that this Government have let down. They deal with some of the most threatening and disruptive people in society, and their retirement age should...

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Finance 8 Oct 2019

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department paid to Sodexo to provide the Aspen card service in each year for which data is available; and what estimate her Department has made of the future costs of that service.

• Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Post Offices: Burglary 8 Oct 2019

  To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) break-ins and (b) robberies at Post Offices there have been in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland, and (d) each region of England in each month in each of the last three years.

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Profile

Scottish National Party MP for Motherwell and Wishaw

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

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

Social Media

• @marionfellows
• https://facebook.com/marionfellows

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Marion Fellows campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Home Office
• Cabinet Office
• Treasury
• Children: Maintenance
• Post Offices
• Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
• Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
• Independent Case Examiner

Currently held offices

• Member, Administration Committee (since 22 Oct 2018)
• Member, Education Committee (since 11 Sep 2017)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Small Business, Enterprise and Innovation) (since 20 Jun 2017)
• SNP Whip (since 20 May 2015)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee (12 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Education Committee (6 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Frank Roy
• Jeremy Bray
• George Lawson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Children and Social Work Bill Committee (3 out of 7)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 87 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs. See all Marion Fellows’s speeches
• Has received answers to 287 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 55.38% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• 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") 127 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)