A selection of Baroness Hughes of Stretford's votes

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• Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, in 2010
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Almost always voted for more EU integration Show votes 42 votes for, 2 votes against, 4 absences, between 2006–2011
• Generally voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, 4 absences, in 2011
• Voted against increasing the rate of VAT Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, in 2008
• Consistently voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2007

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Recent appearances

• Children and Social Work Bill [HL] - Second Reading 14 Jun 2016

  My Lords, this Bill rehearses a number of themes with which we are all very familiar because we know they are important to improving the outcomes for children in care, and it revisits those themes with further measures. While we would all welcome the opportunity to improve the system even further, it is at the same time dispiriting that we need to return to these issues because the outcomes...

• Education and Adoption Bill: Report (2nd Day) 16 Dec 2015

  I really meant that, in the event that the provisions of government Amendment 24 were to be invoked because an academy was either coasting or failing, what did the Minister envisage would be the timescale to get it back on track?

• Education and Adoption Bill: Report (2nd Day) 16 Dec 2015

  My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to respond to the amendments in this group after our deliberations in Committee. Before doing so, I apologise to the House: I very much wanted to take a full part in this debate, having raised many of these issues in Committee, but I have a personal appointment first thing in the morning in Manchester which I must keep. I am afraid that I have had to book a...

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Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 26 July 2010

Previously MP for Stretford and Urmston until 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

Entered the House of Commons on 1 May 1997 — General election

Also represented Stretford and Urmston

• Personal website
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Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• DecaBDE

Other offices held in the past

• Member, EU Justice Sub-Committee (12 Jun 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Education) (13 Oct 2010 to 1 Jul 2014)
• Minister of State (Children, Young People and Families; Minister for the North West), Department for Children, Schools and Families (13 Jul 2007 to 10 Jun 2009)
• Minister of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families (28 Jun 2007 to 13 Jul 2007)
• Minister of State (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (Children and Youth Justice) (and Minister for the North West) (28 Jun 2007 to 5 Jun 2009)
• Minister of State (Children, Young People and Families), Department for Education and Skills (17 Jun 2005 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Minister of State (Children), Department for Education and Skills (11 May 2005 to 17 Jun 2005)
• Minister of State (Education and Skills) (Children, Young People and Families) (10 May 2005 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Minister of State (Citizenship and Immigration), Home Office (29 May 2002 to 1 Apr 2004)
• Minister of State (Home Office) (Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism) (29 May 2002 to 1 Apr 2004)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office (11 Jun 2001 to 29 May 2002)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (11 Jun 2001 to 28 May 2002)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (29 Jul 1999 to 7 Jun 2001)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (28 Jul 1999 to 11 Jun 2001)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (16 Jul 1997 to 9 Nov 1998)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Children and Young Persons Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Children and Adoption Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Childcare Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill Committee (11 out of 13)
• Sexual Offences Bill Committee (4 out of 10)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 0 debates in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all Baroness Hughes of Stretford’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 43.22% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 100 annotations on this Lord’s speeches — well above average amongst Lords.
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 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") 72 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)