Voting Record — Joan Walley MP, Stoke-on-Trent North (10619)

Joan Walley

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	30 Mar 2015	Lab	7 votes out of 868, 0.8%	868 votes out of 1239, 70.1%	1 time
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Lab	18 votes out of 976, 1.8%	976 votes out of 1288, 75.8%	0 times
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	15 votes out of 897, 1.7%	897 votes out of 1246, 72.0%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	4 votes out of 893, 0.4%	893 votes out of 1273, 70.1%	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	Joan Walley	Lab Vote	Rôle
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Members' Expenses Committee
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
Commons	20 Jan 2015	Opposition Day — Trident Nuclear Weapons System Renewal	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Oct 2014	Recall of MPs Bill — Process for Prompting a New Election for a Constituency's MP	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	28 Apr 2014	High Speed Rail (London — West Midlands) Bill — Decline Second Reading	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Jun 2013	Energy Bill — Clause 11 — Subsidy of Nuclear Power Generation	minority	no	Rebel
18 Jul 2011	Became Member, Members' Expenses Committee
Commons	9 Feb 2011	Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) Code Revision — Stop and Search — Fingerprints and DNA — Entry and Search — CCTV	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Nov 2010	Motion to Sit in Private	tellno	no	Teller
20 Oct 2010	Stopped being Member, Panel of Chairs
19 Jul 2010	Became Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
Commons	15 Jun 2010	Business of the House — Backbench Business Committee	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Jun 2010	Business of the House — Size of the Backbench Business Committee	Majority	aye	Rebel
10 Jun 2010	Became Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
10 Jun 2010	Became Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
10 Jun 2010	Stopped being Member, Environmental Audit Committee
6 May 2010	Stopped being Member, West Midlands Regional Select Committee
House	Date	Subject	Joan Walley	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	26 Oct 2009	Marine Conservation Bill — Marine Conservation Zones designated to conserve marine ecosystem as a whole — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	18 May 2009	Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust	minority	no	Rebel
3 Mar 2009	Became Member, West Midlands Regional Select Committee
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Candidate for MP becoming own election agent does not disclose home address	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Home address form must be correct	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Mar 2009	Political Parties and Elections Bill — Parliamentary candidates can keep their home addresses secret	minority	aye	Rebel
22 Jul 2008	Stopped being Member, Draft Marine Bill (Joint Committee)
8 May 2008	Became Member, Draft Marine Bill (Joint Committee)
Commons	31 Mar 2008	Housing and Regeneration Bill — Subsidy arrangements: formula and exclusions	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	31 Mar 2008	Housing and Regeneration Bill — Code of practice for consultations — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
6 Mar 2008	Became Member, Panel of Chairs
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 6 (80 per Cent. Elected)	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Support for bicameral Parliament	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2007	Offender Management Bill — New Clause 11 — Restriction on certain arrangements under section 3(2)	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	17 Oct 2006	Points of Order — Gambling Act 2005 (Amendment)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	24 May 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — End selection by ability — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 May 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Regulate schools' admissions policies — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 May 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Ballot of parents to change from community school to foundation school — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Mar 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Second Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Mar 2006	Animal Welfare Bill — New Clause "8" — Docking of dogs' tails — Working dogs	Majority	aye	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Joan Walley	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 Nov 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill — Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Nov 2003	Fire Services Bill — Clause 1 — Powers of the Secretary of State	minority	no	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	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 — Endorse UN Security Council Resolution 1441 — Final Opportunity for Iraq to Disarm	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Feb 2003	Iraq — Case for war is unproven — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 4 (80 per Cent. Elected) — 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	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
House	Date	Subject	Joan Walley	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Apr 2000	Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill - Annual increase in basic retirement pension	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Feb 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)	minority	aye	Rebel
22 Jun 1998	Stopped being Member, Trade & Industry Committee
12 Nov 1997	Became Member, Environmental Audit Committee
27 Nov 1995	Became Member, Trade & Industry Committee
1 Jun 1995	Stopped being Shadow Spokesperson (Transport),
1 Jun 1990	Became Shadow Spokesperson (Transport),
1 Jun 1990	Stopped being Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs),
1 Jun 1988	Became Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs),

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
5%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
0%	Academy Schools - for
92%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
0%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
67%	Apprenticeships
50%	Assisted Dying
89%	Asylum System - More strict
100%	Ban fox hunting
88%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
38%	Business and community control of schools: For
20%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
0%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
16%	Closed Material Proceedure
13%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
100%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
100%	Crossrail - In favour
0%	Cull Badgers
73%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
75%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
25%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
92%	Easier access to abortion
10%	Employee Shareholder Status
0%	Encourage and incentivise saving
0%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
100%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
100%	Environmental water quality
0%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
77%	European Union Integration - For
12%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
40%	Fixed Term Parliaments
20%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
100%	Fox hunting - Ban
10%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
79%	Fully Elected House of Lords
50%	Further devolution to Scotland
50%	Further devolution to Wales
65%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
0%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
100%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
93%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
30%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
14%	Higher taxes on banks
50%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
87%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
40%	HS2 - In Favour
73%	Human Rights and Equality
93%	Identity cards - For introduction
80%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
100%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
28%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
3%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
0%	Increase the state pension age
18%	Increase VAT
0%	Inheritance Tax
7%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
3%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
89%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
99%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
100%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
25%	Localise Council Tax Support
38%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
60%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
100%	Mansion Tax
100%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
12%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
100%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
84%	Minimum Wage
85%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
66%	More powers for local councils
18%	No detention without charge or trial
92%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
100%	Nuclear power - For
53%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
83%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
0%	Police and Crime Commissioners
99%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
1%	Post office closures - against
100%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
0%	Privatise Royal Mail
31%	Promote Occupational Pensions
56%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
100%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
100%	Public Ownership of Railways
100%	Rail Fares - Lower
50%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
83%	Reduce capital gains tax
0%	Reduce central funding for local government
0%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
11%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
9%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
8%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
1%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
42%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
0%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
29%	Register of Lobbyists
99%	Regulate letting agent fees
67%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
96%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
83%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
0%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
10%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
24%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
98%	Right to strike
27%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
96%	Same Sex Marriage - for
9%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
0%	Sell England's Public Forests
89%	Smoking ban - In favour
100%	State control of bus services
65%	Stop climate change
94%	Support current and former armed service members
44%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
2%	Termination of pregnancy - against
33%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
8%	Trade Unions - Restrict
29%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
58%	Transparency of Parliament
0%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
8%	University education fees - Should be free
62%	University Tuition Fees - For
47%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
42%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
0%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
100%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
100%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Joan Walley MP, Stoke-on-Trent North (10619)

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