Lord Foulkes of Cumnock compared to 'Schools

voted ambiguously on the policy

by scoring 41.9% compared to the votes below

Why Majority/minority instead of Aye/No?
House	Date	Subject	Mr George Foulkes	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	Mr George Foulkes	Policy vote
Commons	5 Feb 2002	Education Bill — Power of school to innovate without permission of the Secretary of State — rejected	absent	minority (strong)
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship — rejected	Majority	Majority
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship (No. 2) — rejected	Majority	Majority
Commons	6 Feb 2002	Education Bill — Abolish selection by aptitude in state schools — rejected	Majority	Majority
Commons	15 Jul 2002	Education Bill — Lords Amendment on Academies' Admissions Arrangements	Majority	minority
House	Date	Subject	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock	Policy vote
Lords	10 Jul 2006	Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 — rejected	Majority	minority
Lords	17 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Local Authorities to encourage 'Foundation' status — rejected	Majority	minority (strong)
Lords	24 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — IGCSE for state schools — rejected	Majority	minority
Lords	30 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Stop faith schools requiring that candidates for headteacher posts belong to the relevant faith — rejected	Majority	Majority
Lords	30 Oct 2006	Education and Inspections Bill — Faith schools must accept pupils from outside the faith — rejected	absent	Majority
House	Date	Subject	Lord George [Missing last name for 80312]	Policy vote
no votes listed

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	2	50	100
Less important votes (10 points)
MP voted with policy	5	50	50
MP voted against policy	4	0	40
Less important absentees (2 points)
MP absent*	3	3	6
Total:		103	246
*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

103

246

= 41.9 %.

How the number is calculated

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