Mr Bruce Grocott compared to 'Schools

voted moderately against the policy

by scoring 32.9% compared to the votes below

Why Majority/minority instead of Aye/No?
House	Date	Subject	Mr Bruce Grocott	Policy vote
Commons	11 Mar 1998	School Standards and Framework Bill — Exemption from strict class size limits — rejected	absent	minority
Commons	11 Mar 1998	School Standards and Framework Bill — Grant Maintained Schools (Parental Ballot) — rejected	Majority	minority
Commons	24 Mar 1998	School Standards and Framework Bill — End Partial Selection of Pupils — rejected	Majority	Majority
Commons	24 Mar 1998	School Standards and Framework Bill — Abolition of corporal punishment in schools	absent	minority
Commons	24 Mar 1998	School Standards and Framework Bill — Third Reading	absent	minority (strong)
House	Date	Subject	Lord Grocott	Policy vote
Lords	14 May 2002	Education Bill — Remove regulations concerning Annual Parents' Meetings	minority	Majority
Lords	14 May 2002	Education Bill — Schools Forums only set up if a majority of governing bodies voted for one — rejected	Majority	minority
Lords	17 Jun 2002	Education Bill — Exemption of Innovative Projects from legislation — rejected	tellno	minority
Lords	26 Jun 2002	Education Bill — Allow schools to set their own Drugs and Alcohol Policies — rejected	tellno	minority
Lords	3 Jul 2002	Education Bill — Leave out Clause 11 (Form or invest in companies)	tellno	minority
Lords	24 Feb 2005	Education Bill — Abolish Independent Appeals Panels — rejected	tellno	minority
Lords	2 Mar 2005	Education Bill — Requirements to be Registered with General Teaching Council — rejected	tellno	Majority
Lords	10 Jul 2006	Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 — rejected	tellno	minority
Lords	17 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Local Authorities to encourage 'Foundation' status — rejected	tellno	minority (strong)
Lords	24 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — IGCSE for state schools — rejected	tellno	minority
Lords	30 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Stop faith schools requiring that candidates for headteacher posts belong to the relevant faith — rejected	tellno	Majority
Lords	30 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Faith schools must accept pupils from outside the faith — rejected	tellno	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	0	0	0
MP voted against policy	1	0	50
MP absent	1	25	50
Less important votes (10 points)
MP voted with policy	5	50	50
MP voted against policy	8	0	80
Less important absentees (2 points)
MP absent*	2	2	4
Total:		77	234
*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

234

= 32.9 %.

How the number is calculated

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