Angela Rayner’s voting in Parliament

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

However, Angela Rayner sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Angela Rayner voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system, while most Labour MPs generally voted for. Show votes

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Angela Rayner has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Debate on the Address: Public Services 16 Oct 2019

  Let me welcome the Home Secretary and the whole House back after the conference season. I echo her words regarding supporting our police. They do an absolutely fantastic job across the United Kingdom. I also want to echo her words regarding our fallen friend PC Palmer. I recognise the commitment across the House of everybody who has worked, and continues to work, on the Domestic Abuse Bill....

• Debate on the Address: Public Services 16 Oct 2019

  The reason for the tone of my speech and for my upset is the Prime Minister describing my constituents as “letterboxes”, and then my constituents suffer racism on our streets. That is why I get passionate about what is happening on our streets and why I will not defend the cuts to our police services, when police officers in my constituency have faced attacks and cuts, and the Prime...

• Debate on the Address: Public Services 16 Oct 2019

  The Conservative party is very good at trying to do spin, but everybody knows that a Labour Government will invest in our public services and our police. They also know that you cannot trust a Tory with public services. Take the victims of the Windrush scandal: people who have spent their lives as citizens, working and paying their taxes, only for the Home Secretary’s Government to ruin...

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Profile

Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne

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

• Wikipedia page
• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Social Media

• @angelarayner
• https://facebook.com/Angela-Rayner

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Angela Rayner campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department of Health
• HM Treasury
• Treasury
• Schools: Finance
• Students: Loans
• Children: Day Care
• Academies
• Education: Finance

Currently held offices

• Shadow Secretary of State for Education (since 27 Jun 2016)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Women and Equalities) (27 Jun 2016 to 6 Oct 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (7 Jan 2016 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (18 Sep 2015 to 7 Jan 2016)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (13 Jul 2015 to 26 Oct 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• David Heyes
• Robert Sheldon
• Hervey Rhodes
• William Jowitt
• Fred Simpson
• John Broadbent
• Albert Bellamy
• Cornelius Homan
• Walter De Frece
• Albert Stanley
• Max Aitken
• Alfred Scott
• Herbert Whiteley
• John Addison
• Hugh Mason
• Thomas Mellor
• Thomas Gibson
• Charles Hindley
• George Williams

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Higher Education and Research Bill Committee (9 out of 14)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs. See all Angela Rayner’s speeches
• Has received answers to 289 written questions in the last year — well 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.
• Has voted in 76.23% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 89 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Angela Rayner’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 142 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)