Alan Johnson compared to 'Stop climate change'

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Alan Johnson MP, Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle

voted ambiguously on the policy

by scoring 44.6% compared to the votes below

House	Date	Subject	Agreement with policy above
Commons	8 Nov 2004	Housing Bill — Improvements in Energy Efficiency — rejected	absent
House	Date	Subject	Agreement with policy above
Commons	8 May 2007	Climate Change — new sense of urgency — rejected	absent
Commons	30 Apr 2008	Energy Bill — Renewable energy feed-in tariff — rejected	absent
Commons	2 Jun 2008	Planning Bill — Consideration of climate change — rejected	disagrees with policy
Commons	9 Jun 2008	Climate Change Bill — Second Reading	agrees with policy
Commons	28 Oct 2008	Climate Change Bill — Electricity generating station performance standards — rejected	absent
Commons	28 Oct 2008	Climate Change Bill — International aviation and shipping emission projections — rejected	absent
Commons	28 Oct 2008	Climate Change Bill — Report on the civil estate	absent
Commons	28 Oct 2008	Climate Change Bill — Third Reading (and other amendments)	absent
Commons	21 Oct 2009	Government to sign up to 10:10 climate change campaign — rejected	disagrees with policy

How the number is calculated

The MP's votes count towards a weighted average where the most important votes get 50 points, less important votes get 10 points, and less important votes for which the MP was absent get 2 points. In important votes the MP gets awarded the full 50 points for voting the same as the policy, no points for voting against the policy, and 25 points for not voting. In less important votes, the MP gets 10 points for voting with the policy, no points for voting against, and 1 (out of 2) if absent.

Questions about this formula can be discussed on the forum.

	No of votes	Points	Out of
Most important votes (50 points)
MP voted with policy	0	0	0
MP voted against policy	0	0	0
MP absent	1	25	50
Less important votes (10 points)
MP voted with policy	1	10	10
MP voted against policy	2	0	20
Less important absentees (2 points)
MP absent*	6	6	12
Total:		41	92
*Pressure of other work means MPs or Lords are not always available to vote – it does not always indicate they have abstained. Therefore, being absent on a less important vote makes a disproportionatly small difference.

agreement score =

MP's points

total points

= 44.6 %.