Robert Courts’s voting in Parliament

Robert Courts is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.

However, Robert Courts sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Robert Courts voted against investigations into the Iraq war, while most Conservative MPs generally voted for. Show votes

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

Robert Courts has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Last updated: 13 Jun 2018

Recent appearances

• Petition - Home Education: Draft Guidance and Consultation: Road Restructuring: Oxfordshire 18 Jul 2018

  In this House, we often spend a great deal of time discussing national and international issues, but we ought not to forget that sometimes it is the seemingly smaller issues that make a real difference to the lives of the residents we represent. For many of my constituents in West Oxfordshire—rural or town dwellers alike—their first journey to work or to school takes place in a...

• Petition - Home Education: Draft Guidance and Consultation: Road Restructuring: Oxfordshire 18 Jul 2018

  I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that excellent point and for joining me on that trip to RAF Brize Norton, which I like to speak about in the House as often as I can. This matter is important for tourism, absolutely, because it forms part of the offer and image that we project of our local area, but it is equally important for businesses, which are moving goods around and will...

• Petition - Home Education: Draft Guidance and Consultation: Road Restructuring: Oxfordshire 18 Jul 2018

  My hon. Friend makes a superb point. I have mentioned the concerns raised when I knock on people’s doors, and people express that frustration that potholes come back a few months after being repaired. They just wish it was done properly so that did not happen. The problem is particularly acute around street works, metalwork and so on. The Government are consulting on moves to try to...

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Profile

Conservative MP for Witney

Entered the House of Commons on 20 October 2016 — Byelection

• Personal website

Social Media

• @robertcourts

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Communities and Local Government
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Transport
• Department for International Trade
• Business: Government Assistance
• Antidepressants
• Pensions: Tax Allowances
• Turkey: Religious Freedom
• India: Foreign Relations

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Backbench Business Committee (16 Oct 2017 to 19 Mar 2018)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (30 Jan 2017 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• David Cameron
• Shaun Woodward
• Douglas Hurd

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Ivory Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (4 out of 4)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 125 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs. See all Robert Courts’s speeches
• Has received answers to 14 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Has voted in 94.20% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above 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 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 42 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Robert Courts’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 89 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)