Voting Record — Alan Meale MP, Mansfield (10428)

Alan Meale

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
8 May 2015	3 May 2017	Lab	1 vote out of 260, 0.4%	260 votes out of 467, 55.7%	0 times
6 May 2010	30 Mar 2015	Lab	11 votes out of 672, 1.6%	672 votes out of 1239, 54.2%	0 times
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Lab	26 votes out of 786, 3.3%	786 votes out of 1288, 61.0%	0 times
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	13 votes out of 597, 2.2%	597 votes out of 1246, 47.9%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	1 vote out of 886, 0.1%	886 votes out of 1273, 69.6%	0 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	Alan Meale	Lab Vote	Rôle
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Panel of Chairs
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Finance Committee (Commons)
7 Nov 2016	Became Member, Finance Committee (Commons)
Commons	18 Jul 2016	UK's Nuclear Deterrent — Replacement of Trident Nuclear Submarines — Maintenance of Continuous At Sea Deterrence	minority	aye	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Alan Meale	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	11 Mar 2015	Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	23 Feb 2015	Serious Crime Bill — New Clause 1 — Making Clear Sex-Selective Abortion is Illegal	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Feb 2015	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Oct 2014	Reappointment of Ian Kennedy as Chair of Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority	minority	aye	Rebel
16 Dec 2013	Stopped being Member, Draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill (Joint Committee)
4 Mar 2013	Became Member, Draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill (Joint Committee)
Commons	11 Jul 2012	Thursdays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	11 Jul 2012	Sitting Times of the House of Commons on Tuesdays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	11 Jul 2012	House of Commons Sitting Start Time on Tuesdays	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	12 Mar 2012	Election of Backbench Business Committee by Parties	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	23 Nov 2011	Deferred Division — Schengen Governance	minority	aye	Rebel
24 Jan 2011	Became Member, Panel of Chairs
Commons	24 Nov 2010	Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2010	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Nov 2010	Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010	Majority	no	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Alan Meale	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	4 Mar 2010	Election of Committee Chairs	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	1 Jul 2009	Parliamentary Standards Bill — Clause 10 — Proceedings in Parliament	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	1 Jul 2009	Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill — Clause 8 — Enforcement	minority	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	3 Jul 2008	MPs' salaries — £650 catch-up payment — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Jul 2008	MPs' salaries — Increase with Public Sector Earnings Index — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Jul 2008	MPs' salaries — Increases capped to 2.3% — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Fertility treatment requires male role model — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Fertility treatment requires father and mother — 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 — 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	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Human-animal hybrid licenses	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 Mar 2008	Post Office Closures — Commends the Government's action	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Mar 2008	Post Office Closures — Suspend for issues to be re-assessed — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 Jan 2008	Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill — Preventing prison officers from taking industrial action	minority	aye	Rebel
13 Nov 2007	Stopped being Chair, Crossrail Bill Committee
13 Nov 2007	Stopped being Chair, Crossrail Bill Committee
Commons	19 Mar 2007	Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Mar 2007	Trident Replacement — Maintain Nuclear Deterrent Beyond Existing System	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Mar 2007	Trident Replacement — Maintain the UK Nuclear Deterrent Beyond the Life of The Existing System	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 7 (100 per Cent. Elected)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Support for bicameral Parliament	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	1 Nov 2006	September Sittings	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Feb 2006	Health Bill — New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions — private clubs	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	31 Jan 2006	Racial and Religious Hatred Bill	Majority	aye	Rebel
13 Dec 2005	Became Chair, Crossrail Bill Committee
13 Dec 2005	Became Chair, Crossrail Bill Committee
13 Dec 2005	Stopped being Member, Crossrail Bill Committee
5 Dec 2005	Became Member, Crossrail Bill Committee
House	Date	Subject	Alan Meale	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	8 Nov 2004	Housing Bill — Decent Homes Standard for Social Housing	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	8 Nov 2004	Housing Bill — Improvements in Energy Efficiency — rejected	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 2004	Members' Allowances	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Oct 2004	Removal of References to Strangers	minority	aye	Rebel
22 Jul 2004	Stopped being Member, Draft Gambling Bill (Joint Committee)
Commons	30 Oct 2003	Pay for Chairmen of Select Committees — PAY FOR CHAIRMEN OF SELECT COMMITTEES (No. 2)	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	30 Oct 2003	Pay for Chairmen of Select Committees	minority	aye	Rebel
10 Jul 2003	Became Member, Draft Gambling Bill (Joint Committee)
Commons	14 Apr 2003	Smoking (Restaurants) Bill	minority	aye	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
1 Jul 2002	Stopped being Member, Court of Referees
Commons	13 Jun 2002	Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day] — Clause 21 — Duty to make references in relation to completed mergers	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Jan 2002	National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill — New Clause 5 — Establishment of Patients' Councils	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Select Committees — Accommodation and Works — Transport, Local Government and the Regions	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Jul 2001	Parliamentary Pensions	Majority	no	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Alan Meale	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	minority	aye	Rebel
29 Jul 1999	Stopped being Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions),
1 Jul 1999	Became Member, Court of Referees
28 Jul 1998	Became Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions),
1 Jul 1994	Stopped being Opposition Whip (Commons),
1 Jul 1992	Became Opposition Whip (Commons),
16 Mar 1992	Stopped being Member, Home Affairs Committee
19 Dec 1989	Became Member, Home 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
41%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
0%	Academy Schools - for
50%	Action to prevent domestic violence and abuse
92%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
5%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
84%	Apprenticeships
25%	Assisted Dying
75%	Asylum System - More strict
1%	Balance the Budget Without Borrowing
100%	Ban fox hunting
76%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
50%	Brexit veto for Scotland, Wales and NI
81%	Business and community control of schools: For
30%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
50%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
16%	Closed Material Proceedure
23%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
99%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
100%	Crossrail - In favour
25%	Cull Badgers
70%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
100%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
25%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
100%	Do more to help refugees inclding children
86%	Easier access to abortion
30%	Employee Shareholder Status
15%	Encourage and incentivise saving
0%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
89%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
0%	English Votes on English Laws etc.
50%	Environmental water quality
17%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
66%	European Union Integration - For
16%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
50%	Extend Right to Buy to Housing Associations
38%	Fixed Term Parliaments
35%	For the UK to Remain a Member of the EU
80%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
100%	Fox hunting - Ban
32%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
45%	Fully Elected House of Lords
58%	Further devolution to Scotland
50%	Further devolution to Wales
50%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
14%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
100%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
90%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
27%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
30%	Higher taxes on banks
25%	Higher taxes on sugary drinks
0%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
77%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
83%	HS2 - In Favour
57%	Human Rights and Equality
96%	Identity cards - For introduction
67%	In Favour of Mass Surveillance
80%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
100%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
28%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
8%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
23%	Increase the state pension age
36%	Increase VAT
67%	Inheritance Tax
54%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
8%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
83%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
93%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
93%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
13%	Localise Council Tax Support
25%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
50%	Make High Earners Pay Market Rent for Council Home
50%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
88%	Mansion Tax
81%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
46%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
100%	Member trustees on pension boards
0%	Merge Police and Fire under Police & Crime Cmmr
33%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
80%	Minimum Wage
99%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100%	More funds for social care
59%	More powers for local councils
20%	No detention without charge or trial
71%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
95%	Nuclear power - For
60%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
83%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
50%	Phase out of Tenancies for Life
0%	Police and Crime Commissioners
76%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
24%	Post office closures - against
100%	Preserve Environmental Protection on EU Withdrawal
100%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
0%	Privatise Royal Mail
38%	Promote Occupational Pensions
67%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
99%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
83%	Public Ownership of Railways
76%	Rail Fares - Lower
50%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
7%	Reduce capital gains tax
0%	Reduce central funding for local government
0%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
15%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
13%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
5%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
2%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
40%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
29%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
29%	Register of Lobbyists
66%	Regulate letting agent fees
38%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
97%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
17%	Replace Higher Education Grants with Loans
88%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
14%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
21%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
50%	Retain funds from council house sales locally
13%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
52%	Right for EU Citizens in the UK to Stay
58%	Right to strike
42%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
100%	Same Sex Marriage - for
23%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
0%	Sell England's Public Forests
65%	Smoking ban - In favour
99%	State control of bus services
63%	Stop climate change
50%	Support current and former armed service members
40%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
25%	Termination of pregnancy - against
17%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
6%	Tougher on illegal immigration
49%	Trade Unions - Restrict
26%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
46%	Transparency of Parliament
29%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
50%	University education fees - Should be free
30%	University Tuition Fees - For
49%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
91%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
42%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
70%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
75%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Alan Meale MP, Mansfield (10428)

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