Voting Record — Michael Weir MP, Angus (11312)

Policy Comparisons

This chart shows the percentage agreement between this MP and each of the policies in the database, according to their voting record.

AgreementPolicy
8% A stricter immigration system
68% Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
43% Academy Schools - for
100% Act to resolve refugee crisis in Europe (provisional)
33% Action to prevent domestic violence and abuse
92% Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
3% Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
22% Alcohol - increase its availability (provisional)
78% Alcohol - restrict its availability (provisional)
53% Alcohol Liberalisation (provisional)
47% Apprenticeships
50% Assisted Dying
0% Asylum seekers: no rights (provisional)
13% Asylum System - More strict
100% Backbench power (provisional)
0% Balance the Budget Without Borrowing
50% Ban fox hunting
89% Bankers' Bonus Tax
50% Banning ozone-depleting substances (provisional)
93% Big Business - against (provisional)
100% Brexit veto for Scotland, Wales and NI
50% Business and community control of schools: For
100% Call for a Report
50% Cap Care Costs
0% Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
83% Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
16% Closed Material Proceedure
41% Coalition Programme for Government - For
75% Common Sense Party (provisional)
0% Conservative Party policies - agree (provisional)
50% Contributory Benefits - For (provisional)
0% Control Orders
0% Crossrail - In favour
50% Cull Badgers
12% Cut Spending on Public Services (provisional)
34% Delegate more powers to government ministers
25% Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
0% Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
100% Devolution to Scottish and Welsh Parliament (provisional)
100% Do more to help refugees inclding children
50% Dogs' tails: docking of (provisional)
50% Easier access to abortion
50% Educational Reform Rebel (provisional)
0% Electronic voting - in favour (provisional)
10% Employee Shareholder Status
15% Encourage and incentivise saving
50% End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
83% Energy Prices - More Affordable
2% English Votes on English Laws etc.
0% Environmental water quality
0% Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
69% European Union Integration - For
24% Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
50% Extend Right to Buy to Housing Associations
98% Extradition - reciprocal between UK and US (provisional)
50% Faith schools: abolish (provisional)
50% Fast-track planning (provisional)
50% Fixed Term Parliaments
0% For Academic Selection in Schools (provisional)
50% For Directly Elected Mayors (provisional)
100% For the UK to Remain a Member of the EU
20% Foundation hospitals - In favour
50% Fox hunting - Ban
50% Fox hunting - Don't ban (provisional)
90% Free trade
50% Freedoms and rights for property owners (provisional)
69% Fully Elected House of Lords
92% Further devolution to Scotland
88% Further devolution to Wales
80% Gambling - Against permissiveness
26% Gambling - permissive (provisional)
36% GP Commissioning in the NHS
29% Greater regulation and transparency of lobbying (provisional)
0% Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
77% Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
50% Higher funding for the police (provisional)
0% Higher payments to the monarch (provisional)
7% Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
35% Higher taxes on banks
0% Higher taxes on sugary drinks
72% Higher wages for workers
50% Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
65% Homosexuality - Equal rights
49% Homosexuality - Not acceptable (provisional)
92% HS2 - In Favour
85% Human Rights and Equality
88% Identity cards - Against introduction (provisional)
4% Identity cards - For introduction
0% Identity Cards - In favour (provisional)
17% In Favour of Mass Surveillance
90% Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
100% Incentivise membership of press regulator
1% Income Tax - No 10% tax bracket (provisional)
0% Increase Air Passenger Duty
0% Increase taxes on the richest in society (provisional)
2% Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
0% Increase the state pension age
15% Increase VAT
83% Inheritance Tax
100% Innocent until proven guilty (provisional)
100% Integrate reserves with regular armed forces (provisional)
50% Intervenors To Be Liable for Other Party Costs (provisional)
100% Iraq 2003 - Against the invasion (provisional)
99% Iraq 2003 - For disarmament only (provisional)
0% Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
0% Iraq 2003 - pro-invasion (provisional)
100% Iraq Investigation - Necessary
100% Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
50% Jury trials: sacrosanct (provisional)
4% Labour's Terrorism laws - For
34% Legalise all adult consensual sex (provisional)
100% Liberal Democrat policies - agree (provisional)
64% Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
100% Local Transport Bill 2007-08 (provisional)
50% Localise Council Tax Support
40% Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
50% Make High Earners Pay Market Rent for Council Home
90% Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
88% Mansion Tax
0% Mass Retention of Communications Data
81% Me (provisional)
40% Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
50% Member trustees on pension boards
50% Merge Police and Fire under Police & Crime Cmmr
0% Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
0% Military expansion - Favour (provisional)
83% Minimum Wage
50% Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100% More criminal offences
50% More funds for social care
50% More money for schools and eductation (provisional)
52% More powers for local councils
100% No detention without charge or trial
93% No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
100% No to ID Cards (provisional)
0% Nuclear power - For
61% Openness and Transparency - In Favour
100% Oppose GM Farming (provisional)
50% Outlaw irrelevant clauses (provisional)
58% Pension auto-enrolment - For
67% Pension fund collapse: bail-out (provisional)
50% Phase out of Tenancies for Life
50% Police and Crime Commissioners
8% Post office - in favour of Government policy
92% Post office closures - against
100% Preserve Environmental Protection on EU Withdrawal
100% Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
100% Prevent rough sleeping (provisional)
50% Prisons and probation services: Privatise (provisional)
6% Privatise Royal Mail
53% Pro Fracking (provisional)
50% Pro international sanctions
2% Pro Science and technology (provisional)
78% Pro-human rights, pro-democracy (provisional)
75% Pro-Liberty (provisional)
50% Promote Occupational Pensions
86% Proportional Representation Voting System - For
42% Protest - Restrict
42% Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
69% Public Ownership of Railways
88% Rail Fares - Lower
21% Recognise Couples in the Tax and Benefits System (provisional)
36% Recreational drugs - Against legalization
14% Reduce capital gains tax
50% Reduce central funding for local government
50% Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
19% Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
4% Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
0% Reducing the number of MPs - for
29% Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
30% Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
50% Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
29% Register of Lobbyists
66% Regulate letting agent fees
29% Regulate nicotine and tobacco sales + advertising
50% Regulation of Lawyer's Fees in No-Win No-Fee Cases (provisional)
38% Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
100% Remove asylum seekers to third countries
100% Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
50% Renationalisation of public services (provisional)
17% Replace Higher Education Grants with Loans
63% Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
0% Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
50% Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
50% Retain funds from council house sales locally
50% Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
100% Right for EU Citizens in the UK to Stay
58% Right to strike
63% Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
63% Same Sex Marriage - for
50% Schools - Greater Autonomy
50% Selective schools: abolish (provisional)
0% Sell England's Public Forests
50% Sexuality Equalisation (provisional)
50% Smoking ban - In favour
100% Special Treatment of Sunday (provisional)
50% State control of bus services
71% Stop climate change
100% Stronger Consumer Protection Laws
84% Support current and former armed service members
22% Support marriage and civil partnerships
0% Supports Government Budgets (provisional)
47% Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
69% Taxes - Favour decreases (provisional)
20% Taxes - Favour increases (provisional)
75% Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
100% Temporary and agency workers: Equal rights (provisional)
50% Termination of pregnancy - against
97% Terrorism laws - Against (provisional)
50% The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
0% Tougher on illegal immigration
50% Tougher sentences
0% Trade Unions - Restrict
8% Transexuality - Against legal recognition
61% Transparency of Parliament
0% Trident replacement - In favour
0% Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
92% University education fees - Should be free
0% University tuition fees (provisional)
1% University Tuition Fees - For
24% Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
43% Vote 'aye' on every division in October 2007 (provisional)
78% Vote for Radical Change (provisional)
76% Voting age - Reduce to 16
98% War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
100% Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
92% Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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