Voting Record — Mark Williams MP, Ceredigion (11489)

Mark Williams

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
8 May 2015	3 May 2017	LDem	3 votes out of 292, 1.0%	292 votes out of 467, 62.5%	0 times
6 May 2010	30 Mar 2015	LDem	28 votes out of 895, 3.1%	895 votes out of 1239, 72.2%	0 times
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	LDem	12 votes out of 837, 1.4%	837 votes out of 1288, 65.0%	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	Mark Williams	LDem Vote	Rôle
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
3 May 2017	Stopped being Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Wales),
29 Oct 2016	Became Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Wales),
Commons	7 Dec 2015	Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill — New Clause 7 — English National Park Authorities: Powers	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Dec 2015	UK Airstrikes Against ISIL in Syria	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Dec 2015	UK Airstrikes Against ISIL in Syria — Decline to Authorise	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Sep 2015	Assisted Dying Bill — Second Reading	Majority	unknown	Unknown
13 Jul 2015	Became Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
House	Date	Subject	Mark Williams	LDem Vote	Rôle
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
Commons	23 Feb 2015	Serious Crime Bill — New Clause 1 — Making Clear Sex-Selective Abortion is Illegal	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Feb 2015	Infrastructure Bill — Safeguards and Conditions for Hydraulic Fracturing Activities (Fracking)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Feb 2015	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Jan 2015	Infrastructure Bill — New Clause 16 — Pubs and Bars — Demolition and Change of Use	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Jan 2015	Infrastructure Bill — New Clause 9 — Moratorium on Onshore Unconventional Petroleum — Review Impacts of Exploitation	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Dec 2014	Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England) Regulations 2014	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Oct 2014	Recall of MPs Bill — Process for Prompting a New Election for a Constituency's MP	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	30 Apr 2014	Wales Bill- Clause 11 — Referendum on Devolving Welsh Income Tax Rate Setting — Independent Setting of Each Rate	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Jan 2014	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — Clause 28 — Regulated Expenditure by Third Parties in General Elections	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Jan 2014	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — Schedule 3 — Inclusion of Staff Costs in Controlled Expenditure	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Jan 2014	Offender Rehabilitation Bill — New Clause 5 — Provision of Probation Services: Report to Parliament	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Jan 2014	Offender Rehabilitation Bill — New Clause 4 — Probation Reform Pilot Schemes	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Jan 2014	Offender Rehabilitation Bill — New Clause 1 — Probation Service Reform: Parliamentary Approval	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 Oct 2013	Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Jun 2013	Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Requirement to Set a Decarbonisation Target Range	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — New Clause 6 — Protection of Beliefs About Marriage	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Apr 2013	Finance Bill — New Schedule — Devolution of Air Passenger Duty to Wales	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 Jan 2013	Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill — Third Reading — Capping Increase of Specified Benefits at 1%	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Mar 2012	Election of Backbench Business Committee	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 Mar 2012	Election of Backbench Business Committee by Parties	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Feb 2012	Welfare Reform Bill — Clause 11 — Housing costs	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	30 Nov 2011	Regulation of Hairdressers — Fines for Hairdressing Commercially Without a Licence	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	31 Oct 2011	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Definition of Domestic Abuse Used In Relation to Eligibility for Civil Legal Aid	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Sep 2011	Energy Bill — Clause 42 — Energy Efficiency Requirement for Landlords of Private Rental Properties	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Feb 2011	Access and Conservation Arrangements After Sell Off of England's Public Forests	both	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Feb 2011	Sale of Public Forest Estate	both	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Dec 2010	Draft Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 — Permitting Beak Trimming of Laying Hens	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Dec 2010	University Tuition Fee Cap — Set Basic Limit at £6,000 Per Year	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Dec 2010	University Tuition Fee Cap — Raise Upper Limit to £9,000 Per Year	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 2010	Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010	minority	aye	Rebel
6 May 2010	Stopped being Shadow Minister (Wales),
6 May 2010	Stopped being Shadow Minister (Innovation, Universities and Skills),
House	Date	Subject	Mark Williams	LDem Vote	Rôle
Commons	12 Nov 2008	Cannabis — reclassification from class C back to class B	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Clause 68 — Commencement	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Clause 4 — Prohibitions in connection with genetic material not of human origin	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2008	Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Prospects for life of handicapped child must be given before abortion — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Sibling compatibility only regenerative tissue — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for sibling tissue compatibility	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for gender-related illness	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Animal DNA may be inserted into an embryo	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Cannot use gametes or pronuclei — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	16 May 2008	Motion to sit in private — Fixed Term Parliament Bill	Majority	unknown	Unknown
20 Dec 2007	Became Shadow Minister (Innovation, Universities and Skills),
Commons	5 Jul 2006	Deferred Divisions — adjournment (summer)	Majority	no	Rebel
10 Mar 2006	Became Shadow Minister (Wales),
10 Mar 2006	Stopped being Shadow Minister (Education),
Commons	23 Jan 2006	Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day] — Schedule 5 — Assembly Measures	tellaye	aye	Teller
17 Jul 2005	Became Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
10 May 2005	Became Shadow Minister (Education),

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
63%	Academy Schools - for
50%	Action to prevent domestic violence and abuse
1%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
36%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
53%	Apprenticeships
0%	Assisted Dying
24%	Asylum System - More strict
25%	Balance the Budget Without Borrowing
17%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
50%	Brexit veto for Scotland, Wales and NI
14%	Business and community control of schools: For
70%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
98%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
92%	Closed Material Proceedure
85%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
0%	Control Orders
50%	Crossrail - In favour
75%	Cull Badgers
23%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
50%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
100%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
100%	Do more to help refugees inclding children
64%	Easier access to abortion
100%	Employee Shareholder Status
29%	Encourage and incentivise saving
100%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
17%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
50%	English Votes on English Laws etc.
100%	Environmental water quality
56%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
74%	European Union Integration - For
61%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
3%	Extend Right to Buy to Housing Associations
83%	Fixed Term Parliaments
100%	For the UK to Remain a Member of the EU
82%	Fully Elected House of Lords
51%	Further devolution to Scotland
69%	Further devolution to Wales
23%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
79%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
0%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
50%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
58%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
65%	Higher taxes on banks
25%	Higher taxes on sugary drinks
100%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
92%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
100%	HS2 - In Favour
77%	Human Rights and Equality
0%	Identity cards - For introduction
0%	In Favour of Mass Surveillance
60%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
83%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
94%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
62%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
100%	Increase the state pension age
91%	Increase VAT
92%	Inheritance Tax
95%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
6%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
4%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
7%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
88%	Localise Council Tax Support
43%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
20%	Make High Earners Pay Market Rent for Council Home
60%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
13%	Mansion Tax
50%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
71%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
50%	Member trustees on pension boards
50%	Merge Police and Fire under Police & Crime Cmmr
33%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
6%	Minimum Wage
16%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100%	More funds for social care
42%	More powers for local councils
100%	No detention without charge or trial
7%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
58%	Nuclear power - For
50%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
58%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
10%	Phase out of Tenancies for Life
92%	Police and Crime Commissioners
0%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
100%	Post office closures - against
100%	Preserve Environmental Protection on EU Withdrawal
25%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
53%	Privatise Royal Mail
84%	Promote Occupational Pensions
58%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
69%	Public Ownership of Railways
12%	Rail Fares - Lower
3%	Reduce capital gains tax
75%	Reduce central funding for local government
100%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
47%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
50%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
41%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
99%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
51%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
100%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
48%	Register of Lobbyists
17%	Regulate letting agent fees
25%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
84%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
0%	Replace Higher Education Grants with Loans
38%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
64%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
77%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
75%	Retain funds from council house sales locally
76%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
100%	Right for EU Citizens in the UK to Stay
50%	Right to strike
81%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
100%	Same Sex Marriage - for
68%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
50%	Sell England's Public Forests
91%	Smoking ban - In favour
55%	State control of bus services
69%	Stop climate change
17%	Support current and former armed service members
65%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
41%	Termination of pregnancy - against
67%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
13%	Tougher on illegal immigration
2%	Trade Unions - Restrict
61%	Transparency of Parliament
21%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
8%	University Tuition Fees - For
48%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
83%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
100%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
40%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
33%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Mark Williams MP, Ceredigion (11489)

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