Louie French’s voting in Parliament

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

This is a random selection of Louie French’s votes.

• Consistently voted for increasing the rate of VAT Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2022.
• Generally voted against a reduction in spending on welfare benefits Show votes 2 votes for, 3 votes against, 1 absence, in 2022.
• Voted a mixture of for and against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability Show votes 1 vote for, 1 vote against, 1 absence, in 2022.
• Voted against more EU integration Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, in 2022.
• Consistently voted for raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2022.

Last updated: 18 May 2022. Learn more about our voting records and what they mean.

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Louie French has hardly ever rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Local Government Finance: Greater London 20 Sep 2023

  To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding the Greater London Authority received from the public purse in each of the last five financial years.

• Home Department: Knife Crime 18 Sep 2023

  What steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime.

• Home Department: Knife Crime 18 Sep 2023

  I welcome the news that the Government are seeking to close the legal loopholes around the sale of so-called zombie knives, but does my right hon. Friend agree that stop and search and the like are powerful tools for the police to get knives off the street and to save lives? Will he also look closely at scan and search to help to detect such weapons?

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Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup

Entered the House of Commons on 2 December 2021 — Byelection

• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Levelling Up
• Housing and Communities
• Department for Transport
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Owner Occupation: Carbon Monoxide
• Motor Vehicles: Theft
• Community Diagnostic Centres: Greater London
• Tolls
• Low Emission Zones: Greater London

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Procurement Bill [HL] Committee (25 Jan 2023 to 21 Feb 2023)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (15 Mar 2022 to 26 Jun 2023)
• Member, Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (26 Jan 2022 to 2 Feb 2022)
• Member, Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 27 Jan 2022)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• James Brokenshire
• Derek Conway
• Edward Heath

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Procurement Bill Committee (8 out of 9)
• Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)