Voting Record — Tim Yeo MP, South Suffolk (10658)

Tim Yeo

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	Con	10 votes out of 766, 1.3%	766 votes out of 1239, 61.8%	0 times
5 May 2005	12 Apr 2010	Con	4 votes out of 579, 0.7%	579 votes out of 1288, 45.0%	1 time
7 Jun 2001	11 Apr 2005	Con	6 votes out of 723, 0.8%	723 votes out of 1246, 58.0%	0 times
1 May 1997	14 May 2001	Con	1 vote out of 706, 0.1%	706 votes out of 1273, 55.5%	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	Tim Yeo	Con 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, Energy and Climate Change Committee
30 Mar 2015	Stopped being Chair, Energy and Climate Change Committee
Commons	23 Feb 2015	Serious Crime Bill — New Clause 1 — Making Clear Sex-Selective Abortion is Illegal	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Jun 2013	Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Requirement to Set a Decarbonisation Target Range	minority	no	Rebel
Commons	21 May 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Third Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — New Clause 8 — Domestic protection for persons	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — New Clause 6 — Protection of Beliefs About Marriage	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	20 May 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — New Clause 3 — Conscientious Objection From Registrars to Marrying Same Sex Couples	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	5 Feb 2013	Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Jul 2012	Sitting Times of the House of Commons on Tuesdays	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	11 Jul 2012	House of Commons Sitting Start Time on Tuesdays	Majority	aye	Rebel
30 Nov 2010	Became Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Commons	15 Jun 2010	Business of the House — Backbench Business Committee	minority	no	Rebel
10 Jun 2010	Became Chair, Energy and Climate Change Committee
10 Jun 2010	Became Chair, Energy and Climate Change Committee
6 May 2010	Stopped being Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
6 May 2010	Stopped being Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
House	Date	Subject	Tim Yeo	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for sibling tissue compatibility	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	19 May 2008	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for gender-related illness	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	6 May 2008	Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: Blasphemy	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	25 Oct 2007	Modernisation of the House of Commons — Handheld email devices	Majority	aye	Rebel
3 Aug 2007	Stopped being Member, Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)
18 Mar 2007	Became Member, Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)
Commons	26 Jan 2007	Orders of the Day — Energy Saving (Daylight) Bill	tellaye	aye	Teller
15 Dec 2005	Became Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
15 Dec 2005	Became Chair, Environmental Audit Committee
15 Dec 2005	Stopped being Member, Environmental Audit Committee
14 Dec 2005	Became Member, Liaison Committee (Commons)
14 Dec 2005	Became Member, Environmental Audit Committee
5 May 2005	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
House	Date	Subject	Tim Yeo	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	26 Jan 2005	Modernisation of the House of Commons	minority	aye	Rebel
14 Jun 2004	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
14 Jun 2004	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Health,
10 Nov 2003	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Health,
10 Nov 2003	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State (Trade and Industry),
Commons	10 Mar 2003	Local Government Bill — Maintain Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality (Section 28)	Majority	aye	Rebel
Commons	4 Feb 2003	House of Lords Reform — Option 6 (60 per Cent. Elected) — 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	9 Dec 2002	Extradition Bill	Majority	no	Rebel
23 Jul 2002	Became Shadow Secretary of State (Trade and Industry),
23 Jul 2002	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport,
18 Sep 2001	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport,
18 Sep 2001	Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
House	Date	Subject	Tim Yeo	Con Vote	Rôle
Commons	19 Dec 2000	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations	Majority	no	Rebel
Commons	13 Dec 2000	Deferred Divisions - Fisheries: Total Allowable Catches and Quotas 2001	both	no	Rebel
2 Jun 1998	Became Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
2 Jun 1998	Stopped being Vice-Chair, Conservative Party,
1 Jan 1998	Became Vice-Chair, Conservative Party,
21 Mar 1997	Stopped being Member, Treasury Committee
4 Nov 1996	Became Member, Treasury Committee
6 Jan 1994	Stopped being Minister (Department of Environment) (Environment and Countryside),
27 May 1993	Became Minister (Department of Environment) (Environment and Countryside),
27 May 1993	Stopped being Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health),
15 Apr 1992	Became Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health),
15 Apr 1992	Stopped being Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment),
28 Nov 1990	Became Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment),

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
50%	Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
84%	Academy Schools - for
0%	Additional Rate of Income Tax - Increase
50%	Against On-Shore Wind Turbines
50%	Apprenticeships
50%	Assisted Dying
54%	Asylum System - More strict
13%	Ban fox hunting
12%	Bankers' Bonus Tax
73%	Business and community control of schools: For
70%	Cap or Reduce Public Sector Redundancy Payments
100%	Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
84%	Closed Material Proceedure
78%	Coalition Programme for Government - For
3%	Control Orders
50%	Corporal punishment of children - Against
50%	Crossrail - In favour
75%	Cull Badgers
38%	Delegate more powers to government ministers
75%	Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
100%	Deprivation of Citizenship - Easier to Do
50%	Easier access to abortion
80%	Employee Shareholder Status
100%	Encourage and incentivise saving
100%	End support for some 16-18 yr olds in education
6%	Energy Prices - More Affordable
50%	Environmental water quality
100%	Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency - for
47%	European Union Integration - For
84%	Excess Bedroom Benefit Reduction - Social Tenants
71%	Fixed Term Parliaments
10%	Foundation hospitals - In favour
13%	Fox hunting - Ban
75%	Freedom of Information Bill 2000 - Strengthen
62%	Fully Elected House of Lords
25%	Further devolution to Scotland
15%	Further devolution to Wales
47%	Gambling - Against permissiveness
86%	GP Commissioning in the NHS
25%	Heathrow Third Runway - In Favour
21%	Higher Benefits for Ill and Disabled
83%	Higher taxes on alcoholic drinks
79%	Higher taxes on banks
50%	Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
55%	Homosexuality - Equal rights
80%	HS2 - In Favour
18%	Human Rights and Equality
16%	Identity cards - For introduction
40%	Incentivise Low Carbon Electricity Generation
100%	Incentivise membership of press regulator
89%	Increase Air Passenger Duty
89%	Increase the income tax - tax free allowance
77%	Increase the state pension age
90%	Increase VAT
50%	Inheritance Tax
99%	Iraq 2003 - For the invasion
89%	Iraq Investigation - Necessary
11%	Jobs Guarantee for Long Term Young Unemployed
19%	Labour's Terrorism laws - For
14%	Limit NHS Foundation Trust Private Patient Income
88%	Localise Council Tax Support
54%	Lower taxes on petrol & diesel for motor vehicles
50%	Make it easier to trigger a new election for an MP
13%	Mansion Tax
71%	Mass Retention of Communications Data
59%	Measures to reduce tax avoidance.
100%	Military Action against Daesh / ISIL
11%	Minimum Wage
16%	Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
38%	More powers for local councils
35%	No detention without charge or trial
8%	No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
50%	Nuclear power - For
43%	Openness and Transparency - In Favour
58%	Pension auto-enrolment - For
76%	Police and Crime Commissioners
0%	Post office - in favour of Government policy
100%	Post office closures - against
25%	Prevent abuse of zero hours contracts
84%	Privatise Royal Mail
65%	Promote Occupational Pensions
1%	Proportional Representation Voting System - For
50%	Protesting near Parliament - Restrict
50%	Public Ownership of Railways
25%	Rail Fares - Lower
84%	Recreational drugs - Against legalization
50%	Reduce capital gains tax
75%	Reduce central funding for local government
100%	Reduce max amount people may be charged for care
88%	Reduce Spending on Welfare Benefits
82%	Reduce the rate of Corporation Tax
92%	Reducing the number of MPs - for
99%	Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
40%	Referendum on UK's EU membership -For -Pre 2016
75%	Referendums for Directly Elected City Mayors
48%	Register of Lobbyists
0%	Regulate letting agent fees
17%	Regulation of Shale Gas Extraction
39%	Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
17%	Require Pub Companies to Offer Rent Only Leases
91%	Restrict 3rd party campaigners during elections
73%	Restrict Scope of Legal Aid
76%	Retention of Business Rates by Local Government
42%	Right to strike
62%	Role of MPs in the House of Commons - Strengthen
80%	Same Sex Marriage - for
86%	Schools - Greater Autonomy
100%	Sell England's Public Forests
55%	Smoking ban - In favour
0%	State control of bus services
67%	Stop climate change
1%	Support current and former armed service members
48%	Tax Incentives for Companies Investing in Assets
100%	Teach children about drugs, sexuality and health
50%	Termination of pregnancy - against
67%	The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
92%	Trade Unions - Restrict
50%	Transexuality - Against legal recognition
50%	Transparency of Parliament
50%	Trident replacement - In favour
100%	Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
92%	University education fees - Should be free
39%	University Tuition Fees - For
84%	Use of UK Military Forces Overseas
50%	Voting age - Reduce to 16
17%	War - Parliamentary authority not necessary
20%	Welfare benefits ought rise in line with prices
25%	Woman's pension age increase - slow transition

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Voting Record — Tim Yeo MP, South Suffolk (10658)

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