Voting Record — Keith Vaz MP, Leicester East (10614)

Keith Vaz

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
9 Jun 2017	6 Nov 2019	Lab	0 votes out of 159, 0.0%	159 votes out of 463, 34.3%	0 times
8 May 2015	3 May 2017	Lab	9 votes out of 239, 3.8%	239 votes out of 467, 51.2%	0 times
6 May 2010	30 Mar 2015	Lab	11 votes out of 623, 1.8%	623 votes out of 1239, 50.3%	0 times
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Lab	32 votes out of 700, 4.6%	700 votes out of 1288, 54.3%	1 time
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	7 votes out of 673, 1.0%	673 votes out of 1246, 54.0%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	2 votes out of 543, 0.4%	543 votes out of 1273, 42.7%	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	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
no rebellions, never teller
4 Dec 2017	Stopped being Member, International Trade Committee
11 Sep 2017	Became Member, International Trade Committee
House	Date	Subject	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Justice Committee
3 May 2017	Stopped being Member, Administration Committee
Commons	8 Feb 2017	Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) Between the European Union and Canada	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	6 Feb 2017	European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill — New Clause 26 — Agreement of Representatives of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Administrations	minority	no	Rebel
28 Nov 2016	Stopped being Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
31 Oct 2016	Became Member, Justice Committee
13 Sep 2016	Stopped being Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
13 Sep 2016	Stopped being Chair, Home Affairs Committee
13 Sep 2016	Stopped being Chair, Home Affairs Committee
Commons	18 Jul 2016	UK's Nuclear Deterrent — Replacement of Trident Nuclear Submarines — Maintenance of Continuous At Sea Deterrence	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Apr 2016	Printing Acts of Parliament on Vellum	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2016	Proposed European Union Directive on Measures to Combat Terrorism	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	29 Feb 2016	Referendum on the UK's Membership of the European Union — Dates	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	2 Dec 2015	UK Airstrikes Against ISIL in Syria	Majority	no	Rebel
30 Nov 2015	Became Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
10 Sep 2015	Became Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
Commons	7 Sep 2015	European Union Referendum Bill — New Clause 11 — Restrictions on Government Activities Which Could Influence Referendum	minority	no	Rebel
20 Jul 2015	Became Member, Administration Committee
Commons	18 Jun 2015	European Union Referendum Bill — Clause 2 — Entitlement of EU Citizens to Vote in Referendum on the UK's Membership of the EU	minority	no	Rebel
18 Jun 2015	Became Chair, Home Affairs Committee
18 Jun 2015	Became Chair, Home Affairs Committee
House	Date	Subject	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Chair, Home Affairs Committee
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Chair, Home Affairs Committee
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Member, Administration Committee
Commons	3 Feb 2015	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	30 Jan 2014	Immigration Bill — New Clause 15 — Exemptions to Automatic Deportation of Criminals on Human Rights Grounds	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Nov 2013	European Union (Referendum) Bill — Closure Motion on Debate on Eligibility to Vote in Referendum on the UK Membership of the EU	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	15 Jul 2013	Opt Out from European Union Police and Criminal Justice Measures	Majority	no	Rebel
29 Oct 2012	Became Member, Administration 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	7 Sep 2011	Health and Social Care Bill 2011 — Independent Abortion Advice	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	13 Jul 2011	Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 — Publication of Equality Objectives by Specified Public Bodies	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	13 Jul 2011	Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 — Application of Discrimination Laws to Mariners	Majority	no	Rebel
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
30 Nov 2010	Became Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Commons	14 Jul 2010	Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010	minority	unknown	Unknown
6 May 2010	Stopped being Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
6 May 2010	Stopped being Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee,
House	Date	Subject	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
13 Jan 2010	Became Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Commons	15 Jul 2009	Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — US-UK Extradition Treaty	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 2009	Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill — New Clause 3 — Right of Gurkhas to Live in the UK	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2009	Commission for the Compact — New Clause 1 — Destruction of samples etc: England and Wales	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	29 Apr 2009	Gurkha Settlement Rights — Government defeat	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Dec 2008	Review of House of Commons Proceedures Police Raid of Damian Green MP's Office — Committee to Investigate Immediately — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2008	Orders of the Day — Counter-Terrorism Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 Nov 2008	Counter-Terrorism Bill — Access to Information and Destruction of Samples Held by the Police	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	17 Jul 2008	Intelligence and Security Committee — Should belong to the House — rejected	both	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 — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 16 weeks — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 12 weeks — 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 — 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	6 May 2008	Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill — Parliamentary oversight of police and prison service pay — rejected	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Feb 2008	Prayers	tellno	no	Teller
Commons	9 Jan 2008	Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill — Preventing prison officers from taking industrial action	minority	aye	Rebel
26 Jul 2007	Became Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
26 Jul 2007	Became Chair, Home Affairs Committee
26 Jul 2007	Became Chair, Home Affairs Committee
26 Jul 2007	Stopped being Member, Home Affairs Committee
25 Jul 2007	Became Member, Home Affairs Committee
1 Jul 2007	Became Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee,
Commons	28 Mar 2007	Deferred Divisions — Immigration	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Mar 2007	Deferred Divisions — Immigration	minority	aye	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 — Composition Option 5 (60 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2007	House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 4 (50 per Cent. Elected) — rejected	minority	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	24 Oct 2006	Police and Justice Bill — Repeals of amendments	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Mar 2006	Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill — Allow failed asylum seekers to be given cash rather than vouchers — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Feb 2006	Health Bill — New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions — private clubs	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	16 Nov 2005	Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill	minority	no	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	26 Jan 2005	Modernisation of the House of Commons	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	22 Apr 2004	Installation of a Security Screen in the House of Commons Chamber	minority	no	Rebel
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	17 Dec 2003	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Second Reading	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	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 1 (Fully Appointed) — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — House of Lords to be abolished — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
7 Jun 2001	Stopped being Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office),
House	Date	Subject	Keith Vaz	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
11 Oct 1999	Became Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office),
28 Jul 1999	Stopped being Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Lord Chancellor's Department),
17 May 1999	Became Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Lord Chancellor's Department),
1 Jun 1997	Stopped being Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs),
26 Oct 1992	Stopped being Member, Home Affairs Committee
1 Jun 1992	Became Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs),
17 Jun 1987	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
77%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
6%	Academy Schools - for
50%	Action to prevent domestic violence and abuse
90%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
50%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
50%	Apprenticeships
0%	Assisted Dying
55%	Asylum System - More strict
0%	Balance the Budget Without Borrowing
100%	Ban fox hunting
76%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
75%	Brexit veto for Scotland, Wales and NI
87%	Business and community control of schools: For
20%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
2%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
33%	Closed Material Proceedure
26%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
90%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
100%	Crossrail - In favour
13%	Cull Badgers
50%	Decamp from Palace of Westminister During Works
35%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
50%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
25%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
50%	Do more to help refugees inclding children
30%	Easier access to abortion
40%	Employee Shareholder Status
0%	Employment rights
31%	Encourage and incentivise saving
0%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
86%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
0%	English Votes on English Laws etc.
100%	Environmental water quality
17%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
66%	European Union Integration - For
12%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
3%	Extend Right to Buy to Housing Associations
40%	Fixed Term Parliaments
63%	For the UK to Remain a Member of the EU
100%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
100%	Fox hunting - Ban
25%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
71%	Fully Elected House of Lords
57%	Further devolution to Northern Ireland
55%	Further devolution to Scotland
58%	Further devolution to Wales
42%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
6%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
67%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
77%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
100%	Higher Pay for Public Sector Workers
45%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
46%	Higher taxes on banks
50%	Higher taxes on sugary drinks
0%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
68%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
69%	HS2 - In Favour
65%	Human Rights and Equality
99%	Identity cards - For introduction
67%	In Favour of Mass Surveillance
67%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
67%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
33%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
28%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
26%	Increase the state pension age
25%	Increase VAT
67%	Inheritance Tax
98%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
27%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
78%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
87%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
86%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
0%	Localise Council Tax Support
53%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
10%	Make High Earners Pay Market Rent for Council Home
50%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
88%	Mansion Tax
68%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
56%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
100%	Member trustees on pension boards
50%	Merge Police and Fire under Police & Crime Cmmr
83%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
72%	Minimum Wage
100%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
100%	More Emergency Service Workers
50%	More funds for social care
65%	More powers for local councils
75%	MPs decide if to approve a withdrawal agreeement
50%	No detention without charge or trial
86%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
95%	Nuclear power - For
63%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
42%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
10%	Phase out of Tenancies for Life
40%	Police and Crime Commissioners
96%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
4%	Post office closures - against
50%	Preserve Environmental Protection on EU Withdrawal
100%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
1%	Privatise Royal Mail
22%	Promote Occupational Pensions
53%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
100%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
83%	Public Ownership of Railways
100%	Rail Fares - Lower
30%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
35%	Reduce capital gains tax
44%	Reduce central funding for local government
50%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
14%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
50%	Reduce taxes on domestic property transactions
33%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
22%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
14%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
76%	Referendum on any EU withdrawal arrangements
64%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
0%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
50%	Register of Lobbyists
99%	Regulate letting agent fees
50%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
92%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
17%	Replace Higher Education Grants with Loans
88%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
50%	Require voters to show photo ID before voting
18%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
21%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
100%	Retain funds from council house sales locally
19%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
67%	Right for EU Citizens in the UK to Stay
64%	Right to strike
67%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
56%	Same Sex Marriage - for
28%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
0%	Sell England's Public Forests
72%	Smoking ban - In favour
75%	State control of bus services
60%	Stop climate change
78%	Support current and former armed service members
35%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
58%	Termination of pregnancy - against
0%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
6%	Tougher on illegal immigration
5%	Trade Unions - Restrict
10%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
54%	Transparency of Parliament
57%	Trident replacement - In favour
0%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
7%	University education fees - Should be free
58%	University Tuition Fees - For
84%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
75%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
50%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
100%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
57%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Keith Vaz MP, Leicester East (10614)

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