Helen’s Voting Record
In the 2007/08 parliamentary session, Helen has voted in 94.6% of divisions, which is well above the Commons average of 73.5%.
Helen’s voting record for previous parliamentary sessions is shown below:
| SESSION | NO. OF DIVISIONS | HELEN’S VOTING ATTENDANCE (%) | AVERAGE VOTING ATTENDANCE (%) |
| 2007/08* |
92 |
94.6 |
73.5 |
| 2006/07 |
221 |
85.6 |
64.4 |
| 2005/06 |
343 |
92.4 |
72.0 |
Helen has also contributed to no fewer than 48 parliamentary debates in the 2007/08 session (up to 25 February 2008) and since being elected in 2005 she has spoken on a range of issues from tax credits and incapacity benefit, to climate change, House of Lords Reform and the North East Regional Spatial Strategy.
Helen has supported a number of Bills since 2005, including the Childcare Bill, the Climate Change Bill, and the Sexual Equality Act, and she has also opposed legislation to introduce ‘supercasinos’.
A summary of Helen’s voting record on major issues is shown below:
● ANIMAL WELFARE: Voted for Animal Welfare Bill
● CLIMATE CHANGE: Voted for a strong climate change bill, and voted for the Energy White Paper committing the Government to reducing UK CO2 emissions by 60% by 2050.
● CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER BILL: Voted for corporate manslaughter and company homicide bill.
● COUNCIL TAX: voted to impose limits on local authorities to increase Council Tax for 2005/06.
● HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM: Voted for the removal of all remaining hereditary peers and voted for proposals for a 50%, 60% and 80% elected second chamber, but voted against a wholly elected House of Lords.
● LIBSON TREATY (EU REFORM BILL): Voted for ratification and voted against subjecting treaty to a referendum
● NORTHERN ROCK: Voted to take bank into public ownership.
● RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATRED: Voted for legislation to create new offence of incitement to religious hatred.
● RENEWAL OF TRIDENT NUCLEAR DETERANT: Voted for renewal and voted against rebel amendment to defer a decision
● SEXUAL EQUALITY: Voted for Sexual Orientation Equality Act.
● SUPERCASINOS: Voted against proposals to increase the proposed number of supercasinos from one to eight.
● SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES BILL: Voted for
● TRIAL BY JURY: Voted to allow judges to sit without juries in complex fraud cases.
You can read a more detailed account of Helen’s voting record here, and you can also find out more about the issues that that concern Helen most by clicking here.
