Voting Record — Mark Williams MP, Ceredigion (11489)

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	LDem	14 votes out of 604, 2.3%	604 votes out of 799, 75.6%	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
Commons	4 Jun 2013	Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Decarbonisation	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2013	Work and Pensions — New Clause 6 — Beliefs about marriage	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Apr 2013	Finance (No. 2) Bill — New Clause 4 — Air passenger duty: Wales	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 Jan 2013	Education — Clause 1 — Up-rating of certain social security benefits for tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Mar 2012	Communities and Local Government — Backbench Business Committee	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 Mar 2012	Communities and Local Government — Backbench Business Committee	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Feb 2012	Prime Minister — Clause 11 — Housing costs	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	30 Nov 2011	Hairdressers Registration (Amendment)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	31 Oct 2011	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Schedule 1 — Civil legal services	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Sep 2011	Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Feb 2011	Public Forest Estate — Government's proposals ensure continued public access	both	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Feb 2011	Public Forest Estate — rethink decision to sell — rejected	both	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Dec 2010	Deferred Division — Animals	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
11 May 2010	Stopped being a member of the Welsh Affairs Committee
11 May 2010	Stopped being Shadow Minister for Wales,
House	Date	Subject	Mark Williams	LDem Vote	Rôle
8 Jan 2009	Stopped being Shadow Minister, Welsh Affairs
8 Jan 2009	Became Shadow Minister for Wales,
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
Commons	5 Jul 2006	Deferred Divisions — adjournment (summer)	Majority	no	Rebel
21 Mar 2006	Became Shadow Minister, Welsh Affairs
21 Mar 2006	Stopped being Shadow Minister, Education & Skills
Commons	23 Jan 2006	Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day] — Schedule 5 — Assembly Measures	tellaye	aye	Teller
19 Oct 2005	Became Shadow Minister, Education & Skills
20 Jul 2005	Became a member of the Welsh Affairs Committee

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
31%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
14%	Business and community control of schools: For
83%	Cap or Reduce Civil Service Pay and Conditions
98%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
0%	Control Orders
50%	Crossrail - In favour
50%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
86%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency
75%	European Union - For
86%	Fully Elected House of Lords
77%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
100%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
83%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
0%	Identity cards - For introduction
87%	Increase VAT
97%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
16%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100%	No detention without charge or trial
0%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
50%	Nuclear power - For
1%	Parliamentary scrutiny - Reduce
0%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
100%	Post office closures - against
69%	Privatise Royal Mail
77%	Promote Occupational Pensions
29%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
99%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
100%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
42%	Right to strike
58%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
81%	Smoking ban - In favour
99%	Stop climate change
40%	Termination of pregnancy - against
4%	Terrorism laws - For
67%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
61%	Transparency of Parliament
33%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
0%	University Tuition Fees - For
100%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
100%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

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Voting Record — Mark Williams MP, Ceredigion (11489)

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