Voting Record — Mr Llew Smith MP, Blaenau Gwent (10551)

Mr Llew Smith

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
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Lab	64 votes out of 803, 8.0%	803 votes out of 1246, 64.4%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Lab	34 votes out of 982, 3.5%	982 votes out of 1273, 77.1%	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	Mr Llew Smith	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of Lords' Amendment — Rules of the Court	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of New Lords' Amendment — Sunset Clause	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of New Lords' Clause — Review by Privy Council	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of New Lords' Clause — Duration of Control Orders	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Rejection of Lords' Amendment to Clause 3 — Balance of Probability	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Derogating Control Orders	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Mar 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Programme — Lords' Amendments	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Amendment to Clause 1 — Power to make control orders	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Second Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	23 Feb 2005	Prevention of Terrorism Bill — Second Reading — Amendment	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Feb 2005	Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — Abolish the offense of Blasphemy — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Feb 2005	Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — New Clause 3 — Racial and religious hatred	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Jan 2005	Railways Bill — Transfer Schemes at End of Franchising Agreements	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Jan 2005	Gambling Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Dec 2004	Identity Cards Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Dec 2004	Identity Cards Bill — Second Reading	minority	no	Rebel
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	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 12 — Reasonable punishment	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Nov 2004	Children Bill [Lords] — New Clause 12 — Reasonable punishment	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Nov 2004	Gambling Bill — 2nd reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 Jul 2004	Iraq — Adjournment Debate	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	31 Mar 2004	Higher Education Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	31 Mar 2004	Higher Education Bill — New Clause 5 — Abolition of tuition fees chargeable to qualifying student	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	1 Mar 2004	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to asylum seekers even when they make a late claim — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	27 Jan 2004	Higher Education Bill — Second Reading — Increase in University Tuition Fees	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	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	4 Jun 2003	Iraq — Weapons of Mass Destruction Inquiry	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Jun 2003	Fire Services Bill — Title	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — New Clause 29 — Rules of Court	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — New Clause 29 — Rules of Court	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 May 2003	Fire Services Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 May 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 May 2003	Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	2 Apr 2003	Criminal Justice Bill — Clause 85 — Defendant's Bad Character	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	10 Mar 2003	Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day] — New Clause 11 — Repeal of Section 2A of Local Government Act 1986	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 — House of Lords to be abolished — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	25 Nov 2002	Iraq — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 — Second resolution necessary — rejected	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Nov 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Asylum seekers can be placed in accommodation centres even if there is no local school pace for dependent children	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	Start Sittings of the House of Commons at 11.30 am rather than 14.30 on Tuesdays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	New Provision for Earlier Sittings on Wednesdays, and for Thursdays and Fridays	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	29 Oct 2002	New Provision for Earlier Sittings on Wednesdays, and for Thursdays and Fridays	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	13 Jun 2002	Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day] — Clause 21 — Duty to make references in relation to completed mergers	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Jun 2002	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Do not allow appeals against rejected asylum claims from within the UK if the claim is unfounded	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	15 Apr 2002	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill — New Clause 1 — Exclusion of Crown Property	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Dec 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Reinstating Clause 39 — Religious hatred offences	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	12 Dec 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Government Amendments	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Third Reading	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Amendment to Clause 17 — Disclosure Powers	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	26 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Clause 38 — Religious Hatred	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Clause 109 and 110 — Implementation of the third pillar	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Amendment to Clause 109 — Implementation of the third pillar	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 Nov 2001	Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — Special Immigration Appeals Commission	minority	aye	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
Commons	16 Jul 2001	Business of the House	minority	aye	Rebel
House	Date	Subject	Mr Llew Smith	Lab Vote	Rôle
Commons	28 Nov 2000	Transport Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	28 Nov 2000	Transport Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	15 Nov 2000	Transport Bill - After clause 61	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	15 Nov 2000	Transport Bill - Transfer schemes made by CAA	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	7 Nov 2000	Programming of Bills - I. Programme orders: supplementary provisions	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	31 Oct 2000	Stem Cell Research	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	23 Oct 2000	Election of Speaker	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	4 Jul 2000	Local Government Bill [Lords] - Application for locally developed arrangements	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Parliamentary approval of transfer scheme	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Transfer to be to not for profit company	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 May 2000	Transport Bill - Transfer to be to company owned by Crown	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Apr 2000	Freedom of Information Bill — Formulation of government policy	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	5 Apr 2000	Freedom of Information Bill — Discretionary disclosures	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	3 Apr 2000	Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill - Annual increase in basic retirement pension	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	7 Mar 2000	Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	28 Feb 2000	Defence White Paper — Decline to approve	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	24 Jan 2000	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	9 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: reduction for pension payments	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	9 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - New allowances for bereaved spouses	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	3 Nov 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	14 Jul 1999	City of London (Ward Elections) Bill	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	22 Jun 1999	Access to Justice Bill [Lords] - Community Legal Service: excluded services.	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 1999	Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - Incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	16 Feb 1999	House of Lords Bill	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	8 Jun 1998	Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	17 Feb 1998	Iraq	minority	aye	Rebel
Commons	10 Dec 1997	Social Security Bill - Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents	minority	no	Rebel

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
26%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
50%	Assisted Dying
63%	Asylum System - More strict
100%	Ban fox hunting
100%	Business and community control of schools: For
22%	Control Orders
100%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
100%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
50%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
30%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
100%	Fox hunting - Ban
30%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
20%	Fully Elected House of Lords
75%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
86%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
20%	Identity cards - For introduction
0%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
54%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
40%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
100%	Minimum Wage
36%	No detention without charge or trial
100%	Nuclear power - For
44%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
97%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
3%	Post office closures - against
100%	Promote Occupational Pensions
99%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
50%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
82%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
0%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
0%	Same Sex Marriage - for
29%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
42%	Smoking ban - In favour
95%	Stop climate change
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
8%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
97%	University education fees - Should be free
18%	University Tuition Fees - For
8%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
0%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
0%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

Shows which MPs voted most similarly to this one in the 2001-2005, Westminster Parliament. This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same). Only votes that both MPs attended are counted. This may reveal relationships between MPs that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.

Agreement	Name	Constituency	Party
91.0%	Mike Wood	Batley and Spen	Lab
90.1%	Paul Truswell	Pudsey	Lab
89.3%	Robert Wareing	Liverpool, West Derby	Lab
88.5%	Desmond Turner	Brighton, Kemptown	Lab
88.4%	Rudi Vis	Finchley and Golders Green	Lab

Voting Record — Mr Llew Smith MP, Blaenau Gwent (10551)

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