Barry Gardiner compared to 'Supports Government Budgets'

voted strongly for the policy

by scoring 98.3% compared to the votes below

Why Majority/minority instead of Aye/No?
House	Date	Subject	Barry Gardiner	Policy vote
Commons	27 Apr 1998	Finance (No. 2) Bill 1998 — Regulations to allow the implementation of rules that would introduce instalment payments of corporation tax	Majority	Majority
Commons	1 Mar 1999	Revoke the Corporation Tax (Instalment Payments) Regulations 1998 — rejected	Majority	Majority
House	Date	Subject	Barry Gardiner	Policy vote
Commons	14 Apr 2003	Budget Resolutions — Corporation Tax (Charge And Rate For 2004)	Majority	Majority
Commons	23 Mar 2004	Budget Resolutions 2004 — Corporation Tax (Charge and Rate for 2005)	Majority	Majority
Commons	23 Mar 2004	Budget Resolutions 2004 — Non-Corporate Distribution Rate	Majority	Majority
Commons	22 Mar 2005	Budget Resolutions 2005 — Corporation Tax (Charge and Rate for 2006)	absent	Majority
House	Date	Subject	Barry Gardiner	Policy vote
Commons	28 Mar 2006	Budget Resolutions 2006 — Abolish corporation tax starting rate	absent	Majority
Commons	28 Mar 2006	Budget Resolutions 2006 — Remove Income tax exemption for computer equipment	absent	Majority
Commons	2 May 2006	Finance (No. 2) Bill 2006 — Remove income tax exemption for computer equipment	Majority	Majority
Commons	5 Jul 2006	Finance (No.2) Bill 2006 — Income tax exemption for computer equipment — rejected	Majority	Majority
Commons	23 Apr 2007	Orders of the Day — Finance Bill	Majority	Majority (strong)
Commons	18 Mar 2008	Income Tax — Abolition of 10% starting rate	Majority	Majority
Commons	18 Mar 2008	Corporation tax (small companies' rates and fractions for financial year 2008)	Majority	Majority
Commons	28 Apr 2008	Income Tax — Abolition of starting and savings rates and creation of starting rate for savings	Majority	Majority
Commons	28 Apr 2009	Corporation Tax (Charge and Main Rates for Financial Year 2010)	Majority	Majority
Commons	28 Apr 2009	Corporation Tax (Small Companies' Rates and Fractions for Financial Year 2009)	Majority	Majority

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	1	50	50
MP voted against policy	0	0	0
MP absent	0	0	0
Less important votes (10 points)
MP voted with policy	12	120	120
MP voted against policy	0	0	0
Less important absentees (2 points)
MP absent*	3	3	6
Total:		173	176
*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

173

176

= 98.3 %.

How the number is calculated

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