Voting Record — MPs for Lancaster and Wyre

Note: our records only go back to 1997 for the Commons and 2001 for the Lords (more details).

Name	From	To	Party	Rebellions (explain...)	Attendance (explain...)
Ben Wallace (show only their votes)	5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Con	14 votes out of 815, 1.7%	815 votes out of 1288, 63.3%
Mr Hilton Dawson (show only their votes)	7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	39 votes out of 975, 4.0%	975 votes out of 1246, 78.3%
Mr Hilton Dawson (show only their votes)	1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	17 votes out of 925, 1.8%	925 votes out of 1273, 72.7%

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Interesting Votes

Votes in parliament for which this MP's vote differed from the majority vote of their party (Rebel), or in which this MP was a teller (Teller), or both (Rebel Teller).

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Votes by Ben Wallace MP
House	Date	Subject	Ben Wallace	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	6 Jan 2010	Video Recordings Bill (Allocation of Time) — Sittings of the House	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Candidate for MP becoming own election agent does not disclose home address	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Home address form must be correct	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Parliamentary candidates can keep their home addresses secret	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for sibling tissue compatibility	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for gender-related illness	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Jun 2007	Bill Presented — Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 1 (Fully Appointed) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Nov 2006	Short Speeches	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	1 Nov 2006	Legislative Process (Notice for Amendments in Public Bill Committee)	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	31 Oct 2006	Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs — Termination of Pregnancy	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Mar 2006	Animal Welfare Bill — New Clause "8" — Docking of dogs' tails	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	15 Dec 2005	National Insurance Contributions Bill — Clause 1 — Earnings: Power to Make Provision in Consequence of Retrospective Tax Legislation: Great Britain	both	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Jul 2005	Crossrail Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Votes by Mr Hilton Dawson MP
House	Date	Subject	Mr Hilton Dawson	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	7 Feb 2005	Serious Organized Crime and Police Bill -- Demonstrating without authorisation in a designated area	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Dec 2004	Mental Capacity Bill — New Clause 1 — Excluded decisions	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 12 — Reasonable punishment	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 12 — Reasonable punishment	tellaye	no	Rebel Teller
Commons	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Powers of consideration and representation by Children's Commissioner for Wales	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Children's Commissioner: functions	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to asylum seekers even when they make a late claim — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Asylum appeals should be referred to a higher court — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to failed asylum seekers and their families — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Burden of proof on prosecution rather than defendant in cases where immigrants to not have travel documents — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	17 Dec 2003	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Second Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	17 Dec 2003	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Decline to give a Second Reading — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 254 — Determination of Minimum Term in Relation to Mandatory Life Sentence	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 43 — Application by Prosecution for Trial to be Conducted without Jury where Danger of Jury Tampering	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 42 — Applications by Prosecution for Certain Complex or Lengthy Trials to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 2003	Sexual Offences Bill [Lords] — Clause 13 — Child Sex Offences Committed by Children or Young Persons	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — New Clause 29 — Rules of Court	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — New Clause 29 — Rules of Court	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Apr 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 85 — Defendant's Bad Character	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Mar 2003	Iraq — Declaration of War	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Mar 2003	Iraq — Case for war not established — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2003	Iraq — Support for the Government	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2003	Iraq — Case for war is unproven — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 6 (60 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 4 (80 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 2 (100 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Nov 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Asylum seekers can be placed in accommodation centres even if there is no local school pace for dependent children	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Modernisation of the House of Commons	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 Jun 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Allow the withdrawal of support from immigrants and asylum seekers in certain circumstances	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 May 2002	Liaison Committee: Power to Take Evidence	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 May 2002	Modernisation of the House of Commons — SELECT COMMITTEES (No. 1)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	15 Nov 2001	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Select Committees — Accommodation and Works — Transport, Local Government and the Regions	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Select Committees — Accommodation and Works — Foreign Affairs	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Jul 2001	Members' Allowances, Insurance &c. — Members' Pay (Money Resolution)	minority	aye	Rebel
Votes by Mr Hilton Dawson MP
House	Date	Subject	Mr Hilton Dawson	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	22 Mar 2001	Election of a Speaker — Election of Speaker by secret ballot	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Nov 2000	Programming of Bills - I. Programme orders: supplementary provisions	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	tellaye	no	Rebel Teller
Commons	10 May 2000	Transport Bill - Road traffic reduction strategy	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Jan 2000	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Jan 2000	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill - Statement of compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	17 Jan 2000	Pensioners	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Nov 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill - Interpretation	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	24 Feb 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Feb 1999	House of Lords Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	10 Dec 1997	Social Security Bill - Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Jun 1997	Firearms (Amendment) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	11 Jun 1997	Firearms (Amendment) Bill	minority	no	Rebel

Policy Comparisons

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

Agreement	Policy
61%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
100%	Business and community control of schools: For
100%	Cap or Reduce Civil Service Pay and Conditions
100%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
81%	Control Orders
0%	Crossrail - In favour
100%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
100%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency
17%	European Union - For
7%	Fully Elected House of Lords
77%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
100%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
19%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
5%	Identity cards - For introduction
100%	Increase VAT
100%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
1%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
38%	No detention without charge or trial
0%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
50%	Nuclear power - For
2%	Parliamentary scrutiny - Reduce
6%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
94%	Post office closures - against
100%	Privatise Royal Mail
77%	Promote Occupational Pensions
0%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
100%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
50%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
42%	Right to strike
100%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
50%	Smoking ban - In favour
81%	Stop climate change
88%	Termination of pregnancy - against
25%	Terrorism laws - For
100%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
50%	Transparency of Parliament
100%	Trident replacement - In favour
100%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
100%	University Tuition Fees - For
0%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
100%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

Shows which MPs voted most similarly to this one in the 2005-2010, Westminster Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both MPs attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between MPs that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.

Agreement	Name	Constituency	Party
99.7%	David Cameron	Witney	Con
99.0%	Caroline Spelman	Meriden	Con
98.9%	Paul Beresford	Mole Valley	Con
98.8%	Richard Spring	West Suffolk	Con
98.7%	Tim Yeo	South Suffolk	Con

Voting Record — MPs for Lancaster and Wyre

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