Voting Record — Barry Gardiner MP, Brent North (10220)

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
40% Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
6% Abusive Tax Avoidance Should be Illegal
8% Academy Schools - for
90% Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
94% Alcohol - increase its availability (provisional)
6% Alcohol - restrict its availability (provisional)
73% Alcohol Liberalisation (provisional)
92% American imperialist hegemony: welcome (provisional)
83% Apprenticeships (provisional)
100% Asylum seekers: no rights (provisional)
93% Asylum System - More strict (provisional)
0% Backbench power (provisional)
100% Ban fox hunting
83% Bankers' Bonus Tax
100% Banning ozone-depleting substances (provisional)
10% Big Business - against (provisional)
25% British Humanist (provisional)
100% Build More Homes (provisional)
85% Business and community control of schools: For
71% Cambridge Liberal Conservative (provisional)
0% Cap or Reduce Civil Service Redundancy Payments
0% Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
32% Closed Material Proceedure
23% Coalition Programme for Government - For
20% Common Sense Party (provisional)
0% Conservative Party policies - agree (provisional)
100% Contributory Benefits - For (provisional)
99% Control Orders
50% Corporal punishment of children - Against
100% Crossrail - In favour
0% Cull Badgers
0% Current Attitudes towards Climate Change (provisional)
1% Cut Spending on Public Services (provisional)
75% Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
50% Devolution to Scottish and Welsh Parliament (provisional)
0% Dogs' tails: docking of (provisional)
0% Educational Reform Rebel (provisional)
30% Employee Shareholder Status
0% End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
100% Energy Prices - More Affordable
18% Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
77% European Union - For
8% Excess Bedroom Benefit Penalty for Social Tenants
5% Extradition - reciprocal between UK and US (provisional)
2% Faith schools: abolish (provisional)
100% Fast-track planning (provisional)
40% Fixed Term Parliaments
100% Foundation hospitals - In favour
100% Fox hunting - Ban
0% Fox hunting - Don't ban (provisional)
10% Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
55% Fully Elected House of Lords
42% Further Devolution to Scotland
55% Further devolution to Wales
66% Gambling - Against permissiveness
62% Gambling - permissive (provisional)
7% GP Commissioning in the NHS
100% Higher funding for the police (provisional)
32% Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
50% Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
85% Homosexuality - Equal rights
47% Homosexuality - Not acceptable (provisional)
31% Human Rights and Equality
13% Identity cards - Against introduction (provisional)
88% Identity cards - For introduction
100% Identity Cards - In favour (provisional)
60% Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
40% Income Tax - No 10% tax bracket (provisional)
22% Increase Air Passenger Duty
69% Increase Taxes on Companies Investing in Assets
6% Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
14% Increase VAT
2% Innocent until proven guilty (provisional)
50% Integrate reserves with regular armed forces (provisional)
33% Intervenors To Be Liable for Other Party Costs (provisional)
1% Iraq 2003 - Against the invasion (provisional)
1% Iraq 2003 - For disarmament only (provisional)
99% Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
100% Iraq 2003 - pro-invasion (provisional)
2% Iraq Investigation - Necessary
100% Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
0% Jury trials: sacrosanct (provisional)
63% Legalise all adult consensual sex (provisional)
0% Liberal Democrat policies - agree (provisional)
93% Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
100% Local Transport Bill 2007-08 (provisional)
13% Localise Council Tax Support
44% Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
52% Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP (provisional)
100% Mansion Tax
95% Mass Retention of Communications Data
52% Me (provisional)
95% Mental health- easier detention + forced treatment (provisional)
100% Military expansion - Favour (provisional)
100% Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
93% More Generous Benefits for Ill and Disabled
69% More powers for local councils
36% No detention without charge or trial
58% No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
0% No to ID Cards (provisional)
100% Nuclear power - For
0% Occupational Pensions - For (provisional)
2% Oppose GM Farming (provisional)
0% Outlaw irrelevant clauses (provisional)
100% Parliamentary scrutiny - Reduce
0% Parliamentary scrutiny - Strengthen (provisional)
37% Pay MPs More (provisional)
83% Pension auto-enrolment - For
33% Pension fund collapse: bail-out (provisional)
8% Police and Crime Commissioners
96% Post office - in favour of Government policy
4% Post office closures - against
100% Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
100% Prisons and probation services: Privatise (provisional)
15% Privatise Royal Mail
100% Pro American Pro War and Anti-Euro Party (provisional)
74% Pro Science and technology (provisional)
21% Pro-human rights, pro-democracy (provisional)
11% Pro-Liberty (provisional)
50% Promote Occupational Pensions
50% Proportional Representation Voting System - For
46% Protesting near Parliament - Unrestricted
100% Rail Fares - Lower
16% Recognise Couples in the Tax and Benefits System (provisional)
16% Recreational drugs - Against legalization
6% Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
0% Reduce spending power of local government
13% Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
8% Reducing the number of MPs - for
13% Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
42% Referendum on the UK's membership of the EU - For
21% Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
29% Register of Lobbyists
100% Regulate letting agent fees (provisional)
0% Regulation of Lawyer's Fees in No-Win No-Fee Cases (provisional)
68% Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
3% Renationalisation of public services (provisional)
83% Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
0% Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
11% Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
12% Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
42% Right to strike
100% Same Sex Marriage - for
24% Schools - Greater Autonomy
6% Scrap Universal Benefits (provisional)
5% Selective schools: abolish (provisional)
0% Sell England's Public Forests
50% Sexuality Equalisation (provisional)
69% Smoking ban - In favour
50% Socially Free, Economically Free. True Libertarian (provisional)
50% Stand as an MP based on signatures of support (provisional)
69% Stop climate change
100% Stop climate change (old) (provisional)
78% Stronger Military Covenant
98% Supports Government Budgets (provisional)
28% Taxation - For Progressive Taxation (provisional)
45% Taxes - Favour decreases (provisional)
43% Taxes - Favour increases (provisional)
50% Temporary and agency workers: Equal rights (provisional)
50% Termination of pregnancy - against
0% Terrorism laws - Against (provisional)
98% Terrorism laws - For
50% The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
26% Transexuality - Against legal recognition
33% Transparency of Parliament
100% Trident replacement - In favour
0% Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
8% University education fees - Should be free
55% University tuition fees (provisional)
59% University Tuition Fees - For
76% Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
54% Vote 'aye' on every division in October 2007 (provisional)
88% Vote for Radical Change (provisional)
50% Voting age - Reduce to 16
42% War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
100% Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices

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