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
100% Abolish the House of Lords (provisional)
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)
50% American imperialist hegemony: welcome (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
73% British Humanist (provisional)
50% Business and community control of schools: For
38% Cambridge Liberal Conservative (provisional)
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
100% Current Attitudes towards Climate Change (provisional)
12% Cut Spending on Public Services (provisional)
50% Defence Spending - At least 2% of GDP (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
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)
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
0% Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
77% Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
50% Higher funding for the NHS (provisional)
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
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% Mental health- easier detention + forced treatment (provisional)
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
50% More funds for social care
50% More money for schools and eductation (provisional)
52% More powers for local councils
50% More powers for National Park Authorities (provisional)
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
50% Occupational Pensions - For (provisional)
61% Openness and Transparency - In Favour
100% Oppose GM Farming (provisional)
50% Outlaw irrelevant clauses (provisional)
34% Pay MPs More (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
50% Pro American Pro War and Anti-Euro Party (provisional)
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
100% Protect UK Industry (provisional)
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
50% Regulation of Lawyer's Fees in No-Win No-Fee Cases (provisional)
38% Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
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
0% Scrap Universal Benefits (provisional)
50% Selective schools: abolish (provisional)
0% Sell England's Public Forests
50% Sexuality Equalisation (provisional)
50% Smoking ban - In favour
50% Socially Free, Economically Free. True Libertarian (provisional)
100% Special Treatment of Sunday (provisional)
32% Stand as an MP based on signatures of support (provisional)
50% State control of bus services
71% Stop climate change
84% Support current and former armed service members
0% Supports Government Budgets (provisional)
47% Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100% Taxation - For Progressive Taxation (provisional)
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
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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