Voting Record — Mr Andrew Bennett MP, Denton and Reddish (10038)

Mr Andrew Bennett

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
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	69 votes out of 821, 8.4%	821 votes out of 1246, 65.9%	2 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	20 votes out of 935, 2.1%	935 votes out of 1273, 73.4%	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	Mr Andrew Bennett	Lab Vote	Rôle
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Member, Urban Affairs Sub-committee Committee
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee)
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Chairman, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee
11 Apr 2005	Stopped being Member, Liaison Committee
Commons	10 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Insisted Amendment — Privy Council Review	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Insisted Amendments — Application to a Court	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of New Lords' Clause — Duration of Control Orders	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of Lords' Amendment to Clause 3 — Balance of Probability	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Clauses 1 to 13	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Amendment to Clause 1 — Power to make control orders	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Programme — Alteration	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Feb 2005	Identity Cards Bill — Clause 31 — Tampering with the Register etc.	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Feb 2005	Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Jan 2005	Modernisation of the House of Commons	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Jan 2005	Gambling Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Dec 2004	Identity Cards Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Dec 2004	Identity Cards Bill — Second Reading	tellaye	no	Rebel Teller
Commons	26 Oct 2004	Programming of Bills	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Oct 2004	Programming of Bills	minority	no	Rebel
28 May 2004	Became Member, Urban Affairs Sub-committee Committee
28 May 2004	Became Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee)
28 May 2004	Became Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
28 May 2004	Became Chairman, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee
28 May 2004	Became Member, Liaison Committee
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Asylum appeals should be referred to a higher court — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to failed asylum seekers and their families — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Jan 2004	Higher Education Bill — Second Reading — Increase in University Tuition Fees	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	17 Dec 2003	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Decline to give a Second Reading — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill — Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill — Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 42 — Applications by Prosecution for Certain Complex or Lengthy Trials to be Conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Nov 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 41 — Application by Defendant for Trial to be conducted without Jury	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Nov 2003	Water Bill [Lords] — Clause 58 — Fluoridation of Water Supplies	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	10 Nov 2003	Water Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Prohibition of Artificial Fluoridation of Water Supplies	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Jul 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill — NHS Foundation Trusts	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	10 Jun 2003	Mersey Tunnels Bill (By Order) — Schedule 1 — Amendment of the 1980 Act: Levying, Revision and Application of Tolls	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 May 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 May 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Mar 2003	Iraq — Declaration of War	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	18 Mar 2003	Iraq — Case for war not established — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2003	Iraq — Case for war is unproven — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 2 (100 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — House of Lords to be abolished — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Jan 2003	Defence in the World	tellaye	no	Rebel Teller
Commons	5 Nov 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Clause 82 — Appeal from within United Kingdom: Unfounded Human Rights or Asylum Claim	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Nov 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Asylum seekers can be placed in accommodation centres even if there is no local school pace for dependent children	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Start Sittings of the House of Commons at 11.30 am rather than 14.30 on Tuesdays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	New Provision for Earlier Sittings on Wednesdays, and for Thursdays and Fridays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	New Provision for Earlier Sittings on Wednesdays, and for Thursdays and Fridays	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Parliamentary Questions	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	13 Jun 2002	Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day] — Clause 21 — Duty to make references in relation to completed mergers	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 Jun 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 May 2002	Liaison Committee: Power to Take Evidence	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — Abolish selection by aptitude in state schools — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship (No. 2) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Jan 2002	Identity Card	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Dec 2001	Deferred Divisions — European Arrest Warrant and the Surrender Procedures Between Member States	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Dec 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Government Amendments	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Dec 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Lords' Amendment No. 6	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Amendment to Clause 17 — Disclosure Powers	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Clauses 79 to 87 — Fissile Nuclear Material, Aviation Security	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Clause 38 — Religious Hatred	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Public emergency threatening the life of the nation — approved	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Amendment to Clause 109 — Implementation of the third pillar	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Special Immigration Appeals Commission	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Indefinite detention of suspected terrorists	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Terrorist certification by Home Secretary	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — New Clause 6 — Sunset Clause	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Programme — Timetable of Debate	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Programme — Committee of the Whole House	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Select Committees — Accommodation and Works — Transport, Local Government and the Regions	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Select Committees — Accommodation and Works — Foreign Affairs	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Business of the House	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Jul 2001	Parliamentary Pensions	Majority	no	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Mr Andrew Bennett	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Nov 2000	Sittings in Westminster Hall	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	25 Jul 2000	Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Parliamentary approval of transfer scheme	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Transfer to be to not for profit company	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Transfer to be to company owned by Crown	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Apr 2000	Organ Transplants (Presumed Consent)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2000	Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	24 May 1999	Modernisation of the House of Commons	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Feb 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Feb 1999	House of Lords Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Jul 1998	Competition Bill [Lords] - Abuse of dominant position	tellaye	no	Rebel Teller
Commons	17 Feb 1998	Iraq	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Dec 1997	Doctor Assisted Dying Bill — Leave to Bring In	minority	no	Rebel

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
50%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
100%	Assisted Dying
50%	Asylum System - More strict
100%	Ban fox hunting
100%	Business and community control of schools: For
40%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
100%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
50%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
0%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
100%	Fox hunting - Ban
12%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
40%	Fully Elected House of Lords
50%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
77%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
21%	Identity cards - For introduction
2%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
1%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
34%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
100%	Minimum Wage
79%	No detention without charge or trial
97%	Nuclear power - For
28%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
97%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
3%	Post office closures - against
100%	Promote Occupational Pensions
50%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
50%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
66%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
0%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
0%	Same Sex Marriage - for
6%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
42%	Smoking ban - In favour
86%	Stop climate change
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
29%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
65%	University education fees - Should be free
56%	University Tuition Fees - For
1%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
0%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
0%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

Shows which MPs voted most similarly to this one in the 2001-2005, Westminster Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both MPs attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between MPs that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.

Agreement	Name	Constituency	Party
91.8%	Dr Jim Marshall	Leicester South	Lab
90.9%	Michael Clapham	Barnsley West and Penistone	Lab
90.8%	Gwyneth Dunwoody	Crewe and Nantwich	Lab
90.7%	Mr Harold Best	Leeds North West	Lab
90.6%	Mr Brian Sedgemore	Hackney South and Shoreditch	Lab

Voting Record — Mr Andrew Bennett MP, Denton and Reddish (10038)

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