Colleen Fletcher’s voting in Parliament

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

This is a selection of Colleen Fletcher’s votes.

• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 40 votes for, 13 votes against, 28 absences, between 2017–2020.
• Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs Details 0 votes for, 0 votes against, 3 absences, between 2015–2020.
• Voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 3 absences, in 2016.
• Generally voted for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, between 2015–2016.
• Almost always voted against a reduction in spending on welfare benefits Show votes 0 votes for, 19 votes against, 4 absences, between 2015–2016.
• Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, in 2016.

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Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Children's Centres: Closures 15 Oct 2021

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Sure Start centres that have (a) closed and (b) reduced the services they provide in (i) Coventry North East constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England since 2010.

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Children: Poverty 24 Sep 2021

  To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of children in relative poverty where at least one adult in that household is in employment in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry in each of the last five years.

• Working People’s Finances: Government Policy 21 Sep 2021

  I thank the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Miriam Cates) for that very interesting analysis of what we ought to be doing now. For households and families living on the edge, a cost of living crisis is a crisis that they simply cannot afford. To cite just one statistic, in my constituency of Coventry North East, the rate of child poverty already stands at 29%. Once the cuts to...

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Profile

Labour MP for Coventry North East

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

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Colleen Fletcher campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Ministry of Justice
• Social Security Benefits: Appeals
• In Vitro Fertilisation
• Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
• Sexual Offences: Criminal Proceedings
• Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries

Currently held offices

• Member, Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords] Committee (since 4 Feb 2021)
• Member, Administration Committee (since 2 Mar 2020)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (since 19 Jul 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Administration Committee (30 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Bob Ainsworth
• John Hughes
• George Park

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parliamentary Constituencies Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill Committee (23 out of 32)
• Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)