Voting Record — Hywel Williams MP, Arfon (11323)

Hywel Williams

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From	To	Party	Rebellions (explain...)	Attendance (explain...)	Teller
13 Dec 2019	30 May 2024	PC	1 vote out of 774, 0.1%	774 votes out of 1069, 72.4%	4 times
9 Jun 2017	6 Nov 2019	PC	0 votes out of 360, 0.0%	360 votes out of 463, 77.8%	0 times
8 May 2015	3 May 2017	PC	0 votes out of 308, 0.0%	308 votes out of 467, 66.0%	14 times
6 May 2010	30 Mar 2015	PC	3 votes out of 795, 0.4%	795 votes out of 1239, 64.2%	21 times

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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	Hywel Williams	PC Vote	Rôle
30 May 2024	Stopped being Member, Welsh Grand Committee
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Work and Pensions),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Trade),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Development),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Foreign Affairs),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Defence),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Cabinet Office),
30 May 2024	Stopped being Shadow PC Chief Whip,
12 Dec 2023	Stopped being Member, Media Bill Committee
29 Nov 2023	Became Member, Media Bill Committee
Commons	17 Oct 2023	Devolution (Employment) (Scotland)	tellno	aye	Rebel Teller
1 Mar 2023	Stopped being Member, Powers of Attorney Bill Committee
22 Feb 2023	Became Member, Powers of Attorney Bill Committee
Commons	24 Jan 2022	Cost of Living Increases — Income — Poverty — Universal Credit — Energy Payment — Child Payments	tellno	no	Teller
18 Jan 2022	Became Member, Welsh Grand Committee
Commons	10 Jan 2022	Charter for Budget Responsibility	both	no	Rebel
2 Nov 2021	Stopped being Member, Health and Care Bill Committee
15 Oct 2021	Stopped being Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Commons	20 Sep 2021	Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill — Decline Second Reading	tellaye	aye	Teller
7 Sep 2021	Became Member, Health and Care Bill Committee
24 Jun 2021	Stopped being Member, Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
12 May 2021	Became Member, Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
21 Jul 2020	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Development),
21 Jul 2020	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Foreign Affairs),
21 Jul 2020	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Defence),
21 Jul 2020	Became Shadow PC Chief Whip,
21 Jul 2020	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Brexit),
20 May 2020	Became Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Commons	11 Feb 2020	Distinct Immigration Policy for Scotland	tellaye	aye	Teller
House	Date	Subject	Hywel Williams	PC Vote	Rôle
no rebellions, never teller
6 Nov 2019	Stopped being Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
6 Nov 2019	Stopped being Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
12 Dec 2017	Became Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
11 Sep 2017	Became Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union
1 Jun 2017	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Trade),
1 Jun 2017	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Cabinet Office),
1 Jun 2017	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Brexit),
1 Jun 2017	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Development),
1 Jun 2017	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Europe),
1 Jun 2017	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Defence),
1 Jun 2017	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport),
1 Jun 2017	Stopped being Plaid Cymru Westminster Leader,
House	Date	Subject	Hywel Williams	PC Vote	Rôle
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Commons	23 Nov 2015	Northern Ireland (Welfare Reform) Bill — Allocation of Time	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	9 Nov 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 27 — Equal Opportunities	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	9 Nov 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 18 — Giving the Scottish Parliament Powers Relating to Tax Credits	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	9 Nov 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 36 — Power for Scottish Parliament to Call a Scottish Independence Referendum	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	9 Nov 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 35 — Consent of the Scottish Parliament to certain Westminster Acts	tellaye	aye	Teller
12 Oct 2015	Became Plaid Cymru Westminster Leader,
17 Sep 2015	Stopped being Member, Panel of Chairs
Commons	14 Jul 2015	Summer Budget 2015 Resolution 21 — Application of Climate Change Levy to Electricity from Renewable Sources	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	14 Jul 2015	Summer Budget 2015 Resolution 2 — Future Taxation: Rates of Income Tax	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	14 Jul 2015	Summer Budget 2015 — VAT and Scottish Police and Fire and Rescue Services	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	6 Jul 2015	Scotland Bill — Clause 53 — Consultation with Scottish Ministers On Renewable Electricity Incentive Schemes	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	6 Jul 2015	Scotland Bill — Clause 32 — Equal Opportunities — Scottish Public Authorities — Powers of the Scottish Parliament	tellaye	aye	Teller
1 Jul 2015	Became Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Commons	30 Jun 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 39 — Powers of the Scottish Parliament — National Insurance	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	30 Jun 2015	Scotland Bill — Clause 24 — Power of Scottish Ministers to Change Regulations on Benefits in Respect of Rent	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	29 Jun 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 54 — Devolution of Power Over Income Tax in Scotland	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	29 Jun 2015	Scotland Bill — New Clause 33 — Full Fiscal Autonomy for Scotland	tellaye	aye	Teller
8 May 2015	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Europe),
8 May 2015	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Defence),
8 May 2015	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport),
House	Date	Subject	Hywel Williams	PC Vote	Rôle
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Health),
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Shadow PC Spokesperson (Education),
Commons	13 Jan 2015	Charter for Budget Responsibility: Autumn Statement 2014 Update	tellno	no	Teller
20 Oct 2014	Stopped being Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Commons	25 Mar 2014	Budget Resolution — Air Passenger Duty Rates from 1 April 2014	tellno	no	Teller
10 Mar 2014	Stopped being Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
Commons	30 Jan 2014	Immigration Bill — Third Reading	tellno	no	Teller
6 Jan 2014	Became Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
Commons	4 Dec 2013	Categories of Gaming Machine (Amendment) Regulations 2014 — Stake and Prize Limit Increases	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Dec 2013	European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Colombia and Peru Trade Agreement) Order 2013	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 Apr 2013	Finance Bill — Clause 183 — Air passenger duty: rates of duty from 1 April 2013	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	18 Apr 2013	Finance Bill — Part 2 — Devolution of Wales Long Haul Rates of Duty	tellaye	aye	Teller
18 Mar 2013	Stopped being Shadow Spokesperson (Cabinet Office),
Commons	9 Jan 2013	Opposition Day — Pub Companies — Require Free-of-Tie Option for Tenants	minority	unknown	Unknown
Commons	29 Nov 2012	Scotland and the Union	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	29 Nov 2012	Scotland and the Union	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	29 Oct 2012	Public Service Pensions Bill — Second Reading	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	26 Mar 2012	Budget Resolutions — Air Passenger Duty Rates from 1 April 2012	tellno	no	Teller
27 Feb 2012	Became Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	21 Jun 2011	Scotland Bill — Chapter 5 — Empower Scottish Parliament to Tax Company Profits	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	30 Mar 2011	Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill — Clause 152 — Director of Public Prosecution's Consent — Universal Jurisdiction Arrest Warrants in Private Prosecutions	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	29 Mar 2011	Budget Resolution — Taxation of UK Oil and Gas Production	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	9 Mar 2011	Welfare Reform Bill — Second Reading	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	7 Mar 2011	Scotland Bill — Clause 13 — Return Responsibility for Regulating Health Professionals in Scotland to UK Parliament	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	7 Mar 2011	Scotland Bill — Clause 12 — Return of Certain Insolvency Powers from Scotland to the UK Parliament	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	7 Mar 2011	Scotland Bill — Clause 11 — Devolution to Scotland of Powers to Regulate Specially Dangerous Air Weapons	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	9 Feb 2011	Taxation of the Financial Sector — Financial Transaction Tax — Banking Levy	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Feb 2011	Opposition Day — Reduction of Fuel Duties for the Most Remote Areas	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	13 Jan 2011	National Insurance Contributions Bill — Clause 4 — Regional Exclusions from National Insurance Exemption for New Businesses	minority	unknown	Unknown
Commons	7 Dec 2010	European Union Bill — Decline Second Reading	minority	unknown	Unknown
18 Nov 2010	Became Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Commons	20 Oct 2010	Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Clause 8 — Electoral Registration and Reports of the Boundary Commissions	Majority	unknown	Unknown
Commons	12 Oct 2010	Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Clause 1 — Date of referendum on the alternative vote system	tellaye	aye	Teller
Commons	13 Jul 2010	Finance Bill — Rate of Value Added Tax	tellaye	aye	Teller
18 Jun 2010	Became Shadow Spokesperson (Cabinet Office),
Commons	8 Jun 2010	Queen's Speech — Inclusion of Nuclear Deterrent in Strategic Defence Review	tellaye	aye	Teller
6 May 2010	Stopped being Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
10 May 2006	Stopped being Shadow Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport),
11 Jul 2005	Stopped being Member, Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
10 Jun 2005	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Education),
24 May 2005	Became Member, Panel of Chairs
10 May 2005	Became Shadow Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport),
20 Jul 2004	Became Member, Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
10 May 2004	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Development),
26 Jan 2004	Became Member, Welsh Affairs Committee
10 May 2001	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Work and Pensions),
10 May 2001	Became Shadow PC Spokesperson (Health),

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
0%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
31%	Academy Schools - for
84%	Action to prevent domestic violence and abuse
59%	Action to Reduce Spread of COVID-19
92%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
36%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
47%	Apprenticeships
50%	Assisted Dying
8%	Asylum System - More strict
0%	Authorised Criminal Conduct by Undercover Sources
16%	Balance the Budget Without Borrowing
5%	Ban fox hunting
92%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
100%	Brexit veto for Scotland, Wales and NI
32%	Business and community control of schools: For
8%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
83%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
8%	Closed Material Proceedure
25%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
15%	Control Orders
0%	Crossrail - In favour
50%	Cull Badgers
25%	Decamp from Palace of Westminister During Works
17%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
25%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
0%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
55%	Do more to help refugees inclding children
96%	Easier access to abortion
0%	Employee Shareholder Status
59%	Employment rights
15%	Encourage and incentivise saving
0%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
84%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
0%	English Votes on English Laws etc.
50%	Environmental water quality
7%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
76%	European Union Integration - For
4%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
3%	Extend Right to Buy to Housing Associations
100%	Fire Safety
72%	Fixed Term Parliaments
97%	For the UK to Remain a Member of the EU
0%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
5%	Fox hunting - Ban
25%	Free Market Within United Kingdom
77%	Fully Elected House of Lords
72%	Further devolution to Northern Ireland
82%	Further devolution to Scotland
86%	Further devolution to Wales
72%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
25%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
17%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
88%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
100%	Higher Pay for Public Sector Workers
22%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
53%	Higher taxes on banks
50%	Higher taxes on sugary drinks
100%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
91%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
11%	HS2 - In Favour
93%	Human Rights and Equality
20%	Identity cards - For introduction
76%	Imported Goods Must Equal UK Standards
0%	In Favour of Mass Surveillance
75%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
100%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
27%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
28%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
19%	Increase the state pension age
18%	Increase VAT
67%	Inheritance Tax
0%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
97%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
89%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
8%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
64%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
25%	Localise Council Tax Support
47%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
20%	Make High Earners Pay Market Rent for Council Home
100%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
75%	Mansion Tax
8%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
49%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
100%	Member trustees on pension boards
36%	Merge Police and Fire under Police & Crime Cmmr
0%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
85%	Minimum Wage
0%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100%	More Emergency Service Workers
100%	More funds for social care
64%	More powers for local councils
50%	More restrictive planning laws
100%	MPs decide if to approve a withdrawal agreeement
100%	No detention without charge or trial
71%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
12%	Nuclear power - For
76%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
98%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
20%	Phase out of Tenancies for Life
32%	Police and Crime Commissioners
9%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
91%	Post office closures - against
76%	Preserve Environmental Protection on EU Withdrawal
100%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
16%	Privatise Royal Mail
50%	Promote Occupational Pensions
89%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
100%	Protect tenants & leasholders from safety costs
13%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
69%	Public Ownership of Railways
100%	Rail Fares - Lower
1%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
7%	Reduce capital gains tax
20%	Reduce central funding for local government
70%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
11%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
0%	Reduce taxes on domestic property transactions
23%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
17%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
28%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
100%	Referendum on any EU withdrawal arrangements
38%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
0%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
52%	Register of Lobbyists
82%	Regulate letting agent fees
38%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
87%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
17%	Replace Higher Education Grants with Loans
75%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
1%	Require voters to show photo ID before voting
9%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
9%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
75%	Retain funds from council house sales locally
20%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
92%	Right for EU Citizens in the UK to Stay
100%	Right to strike
83%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
92%	Same Sex Marriage - for
39%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
0%	Sell England's Public Forests
77%	Smoking ban - In favour
75%	State control of bus services
75%	Stop climate change
77%	Support current and former armed service members
44%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
75%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
0%	Termination of pregnancy - against
100%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
11%	Tougher on illegal immigration
4%	Trade Unions - Restrict
8%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
80%	Transparency of Parliament
0%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
92%	University education fees - Should be free
0%	University Tuition Fees - For
24%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
79%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
100%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
86%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
86%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Hywel Williams MP, Arfon (11323)

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