Voting Record — Kenneth Clarke MP, Rushcliffe (10115)

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

From	To	Party	Rebellions (explain...)	Attendance (explain...)	Teller
6 May 2010	still in office	Con	1 vote out of 479, 0.2%	479 votes out of 776, 61.7%	0 times
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Con	45 votes out of 688, 6.5%	688 votes out of 1288, 53.4%	0 times
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Con	26 votes out of 610, 4.3%	610 votes out of 1246, 49.0%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Con	5 votes out of 543, 0.9%	543 votes out of 1273, 42.7%	1 time

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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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House	Date	Subject	Kenneth Clarke	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	5 Feb 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
11 May 2010	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Business
House	Date	Subject	Kenneth Clarke	Con Vote	Rôle
10 Nov 2009	Stopped being Chairman, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
27 Jul 2009	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
27 Jul 2009	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Business
4 Jun 2009	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
4 Jun 2009	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Commons	3 Mar 2009	Business of the House — Select Committees (Chairmen), Liaison Committee and Green Book	Majority	no	Rebel
19 Jan 2009	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
19 Jan 2009	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
19 Jan 2009	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
19 Jan 2009	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
19 Jan 2009	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill Third Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Clause 68 — Commencement	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Clause 4 — Prohibitions in connection with genetic material not of human origin	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Jul 2008	MPs' salaries — £650 catch-up payment — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	25 Jun 2008	Deferred Division — Diplomatic and Consular Protection of union citizens in third countries	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Second Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	6 May 2008	Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: Blasphemy	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Third Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — The Treaty does not affect the supremacy of the UK parliament — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Clause on 'Commencement' of the Bill should remain in the Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Referendum (No. 2) — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Referendum — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Clause on 'parliamentary control of decisions' to remain in the Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Act of Parliament needed to modify the Lisbon Treaty — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Parliamentary control of decisions made at the European Union level — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Parliamentary control of decisions made at the European Union level — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Increase of powers of European Parliament	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Mar 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Accept the changes of terminology in the Lisbon Treaty	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Enshrine the Lisbon Treaty into UK law	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Excludes the European Union from imposing an obligation on Parliament — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	27 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to climate change	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Disapproves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to climate change — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to the European Union's institutions	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Disapproves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to the European Union's institutions — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Remove foreign policy role of the President of the European Council — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to foreign affairs	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Disapproves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to foreign affairs — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Prevent competition rules from becoming an exclusive policy area of the European Union — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty with regards to the single market	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	30 Jan 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Exclude energy from being a shared policy area in the European Union — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	30 Jan 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty in relation to energy	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	30 Jan 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Disapproves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty in relation to energy — rejected	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Jan 2008	Lisbon Treaty — Second Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2007	Opposition Day — [17th allotted day] — Alleged Overseas Corruption	minority	unknown	Unknown
Commons	5 Jun 2007	Bill Presented — Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Remove Hereditary Places	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 7 (100 per Cent. Elected)	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 6 (80 per Cent. Elected)	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 5 (60 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
11 Jan 2007	Stopped being Chairman of the Democracy Task Force, Conservative Party
Commons	31 Oct 2006	Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs — Termination of Pregnancy	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	17 Oct 2006	Points of Order — Gambling Act 2005 (Amendment)	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Feb 2006	Deferred Division — Intellectual Property	Majority	no	Rebel
16 Dec 2005	Became Chairman of the Democracy Task Force, Conservative Party
6 Dec 2005	Became Chairman, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
Commons	26 Oct 2005	Terrorism Bill — Second Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Mr Kenneth Clarke	Con Vote	Rôle
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Chairman, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being a member of the House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)
Commons	5 Apr 2005	Mental Capacity Bill — Clause 2 — People who lack capacity	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Apr 2005	Mental Capacity Bill — Clause 2 — People who lack capacity	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Feb 2005	European Union Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Feb 2005	Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — Abolish the offense of Blasphemy — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Jan 2005	Car Mileage Allowance	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Jan 2005	Connecting Parliament with the Public	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Dec 2004	Mental Capacity Bill — Schedule 3 — Property and affairs: supplementary provisions	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Dec 2004	Mental Capacity Bill — Clause 24 — Advance decisions to refuse treatment: general	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Dec 2004	Mental Capacity Bill — Clause 4 — Best interests	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Dec 2004	Mental Capacity Bill — New Clause 5 — Appointment of independent advocates (No. 2)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Nov 2004	Categories of civil partners other than same sex couples	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	11 Oct 2004	Mental Capacity Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	28 Jun 2004	Human Tissue Bill — New Clause 1 — Determination of consent for removal, storage and use of organs from Adults for purpose of transplantation	minority	no	Rebel
28 May 2004	Became Chairman, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
28 May 2004	Became a member of the House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)
Commons	25 May 2004	Gender Recognition Bill [Lords] — Successful applications: married couples	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	10 Nov 2003	Water Bill [Lords] — Clause 58 — Fluoridation of Water Supplies	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Nov 2003	Water Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Prohibition of Artificial Fluoridation of Water Supplies	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2003	Deferred Division — Recovery Plan for Cod and the Recovery of the Northern Hake Stock	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	17 Sep 2003	Deferred Division — Implementation and Compliance of the Common Fisheries Policy	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Mar 2003	Iraq — Case for war not established — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2003	Iraq — Case for war is unproven — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Nov 2002	Adoption and Children Bill — Suitability Of Adopters	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Ministerial Statements proposals	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Modernisation of the House of Commons	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 May 2002	Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — Applications for adoption	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 May 2002	Modernisation of the House of Commons — SELECT COMMITTEES (No. 1)	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	29 Nov 2001	Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords]	Majority	aye	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Mr Kenneth Clarke	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	22 Mar 2001	Election of a Speaker — Election of Speaker by secret ballot	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	16 Mar 2001	Transplant of Human Organs Bill	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Apr 2000	Organ Transplants (Presumed Consent)	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	10 Nov 1999	House of Lords Bill — Exceptions from the rule that hereditary peers should be abolished	minority	aye	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
33%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
0%	Ban fox hunting
73%	Business and community control of schools: For
100%	Cap or Reduce Civil Service Pay and Conditions
50%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
1%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
8%	Crossrail - In favour
100%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
100%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency
84%	European Union - For
20%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
0%	Fox hunting - Ban
50%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
90%	Fully Elected House of Lords
58%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
100%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
56%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
21%	Identity cards - For introduction
79%	Increase VAT
30%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
96%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
16%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
39%	No detention without charge or trial
25%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
50%	Nuclear power - For
1%	Parliamentary scrutiny - Reduce
9%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
91%	Post office closures - against
84%	Privatise Royal Mail
77%	Promote Occupational Pensions
0%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
58%	Protesting near Parliament - Unrestricted
84%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
100%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
61%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
50%	Right to strike
82%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
28%	Smoking ban - In favour
59%	Stop climate change
50%	Termination of pregnancy - against
13%	Terrorism laws - For
67%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
26%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
54%	Transparency of Parliament
100%	Trident replacement - In favour
100%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
90%	University education fees - Should be free
42%	University Tuition Fees - For
0%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
17%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

Shows which MPs voted most similarly to this one in the 2010-present, 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.

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Voting Record — Kenneth Clarke MP, Rushcliffe (10115)

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