PENNY MORDAUNT'S RECORD.
Consistently voted for stronger
enforcement of immigration rules
Consistently voted for
mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities
Consistently voted for requiring the
mass retention of information about communications
Consistently voted for a
stricter asylum system
Consistently voted for
merging police and fire services under Police and Crime Commissioners
Almost always voted against restrictions on
fees charged to tenants by
letting agents
Generally voted for restricting the scope of
legal aid
Almost always voted against greater
regulation of gambling
Generally voted for allowing national security sensitive evidence to be put before
courts in secret sessions
Consistently voted for the privatisation of
Royal Mail
Voted a mixture of for and against laws to promote
equality and human rights
Voted against
smoking bans
Almost always voted against slowing the rise in
rail fares
Consistently voted for higher
taxes on plane tickets
Generally voted against a
publicly owned railway system
Almost always voted against greater public control of
bus services
Almost always voted for reducing the rate of
corporation tax
Almost always voted against increasing the tax rate applied to
income over £150,000
Almost always voted against an annual tax on the value of expensive homes (popularly known as a
mansion tax)
Generally voted against a
banker’s bonus tax
Almost always voted for more restrictive
regulation of trade union activity
Almost always voted for higher taxes on
alcoholic drinks
Almost always voted for increasing the
rate of VAT
Generally voted against a
right to remain for EU nationals already in living in the UK
Consistently voted for use of
UK military forces in combat operations overseas
Almost always voted against
UK membership of the EU
Consistently voted for
military action against ISIL (Daesh)
Consistently voted for university
tuition fees
Voted for raising England’s
undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
Generally voted against measures to
prevent climate change
Consistently voted for selling England’s state owned
forests
Voted a mixture of for and against financial incentives for
low carbon emission
electricity generation methods
Generally voted against a more
proportional system for electing MPs
Consistently voted against a
wholly elected House of Lords
Almost always voted against transferring
more powers to the Senedd/Welsh Parliament
Almost always voted for reducing central government
funding of local government
Consistently voted against removing
hereditary peers from the House of Lords
Generally voted against more
powers for local councils
Almost always voted for reforming the
NHS so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
Almost always voted for making local councils responsible for helping those in
financial need afford their
council tax and reducing the amount spent on such support
Consistently voted against raising
welfare benefits at least in line with prices
Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to
illness or disability
Almost always voted for reducing
housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on
welfare benefits
Generally voted against spending public money to create
guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed