Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Electoral Participation (Media)
"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for securing this important debate. In my constituency we have two excellent local newspapers: the Surrey Advertiser, which is branded the Woking Advertiser in Woking, and the Woking News & Mail. They cover local and national politics in a very considered …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Electoral Participation (Media)
"The much maligned council newspaper or magazine can also help. We have an excellent council newspaper in Woking, and it always encourages registration and participation. It explains, in a grounded, proper way, how the electoral process works and when the elections are...."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Electoral Integrity and Absent Votes
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr Jackson) on securing this important debate. I wish to expand on just a couple of points in the time allowed. First, I congratulate the Government on holding firm on individual electoral registration and the timescales in which that is to …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Electoral Integrity and Absent Votes
"We need to gather more data. After elections there is always anecdotal talk of people turning up at polling stations and being told that their vote has already been cast. We need to know the scale of that problem to know whether the remedy is worse than the disease.
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Electoral Integrity and Absent Votes
"The hon. Gentleman makes that point extremely powerfully. All that someone needs to commit electoral fraud under our system is a really good telling regime at the polling station; to knock out the postal voters; then, in the dying hours of polling, they can send people along to impersonate those …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Electoral Integrity and Absent Votes
"As I said earlier, after every single election, whether it is a nationwide election or a large set of local elections, there are always people who go to their local paper—the hon. Gentleman can look through the cuttings—or who complain to the returning officer, “I went to the polling station …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Dec 2015
Electoral Integrity and Absent Votes
"The Minister makes a good point about another way of doing things. Of course, we sign for our postal votes, and that is checked. There are 9 million postal voters, with 15% to 20% of the electorate now choosing to vote by post. If that 20% is being checked, why …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 23rd January 2015
Asked by:
Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many properties sold in (a) Woking constituency and (b) Surrey attracted stamp duty land tax in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Gauke
The number of transactions that fall within the scope of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is published annually in September in respect to the previous tax year. This contains data at Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level.
The figures have been reproduced in the summary table below:
Summary of Stamp Duty Annual Publication Entries
| | No. of Transactions |
Year | Working PC | Surrey County |
2009-2010 | 2212 | 23411 |
2010-2011 | 2277 | 24020 |
2011-2012 | 2022 | 22469 |
2012-2013 | 2004 | 22363 |
2013-2014 | 2703 | 27327 |
Written Question
Friday 23rd January 2015
Asked by:
Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how many people in (a) Woking constituency and (b) Surrey pay less income tax in 2014-15 than in 2009-10.
Answered by David Gauke
By 5th April 2015, this Government's increases in the personal allowance (for those born after 5 April 1948), is estimated to reduce the income tax liability of 26.1milion individuals. Of these, 3.67 million live in the South East region, this includes the county of Surrey and the Parliamentary Constituency of Woking.
These estimates are based on the 2011-12 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected to 2014-15 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.
HMRC does not publish this information at county or constituency level for projection years.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Dec 2012
Outsourcing of Public Services
"I congratulate my hon. Friend on an excellent speech, and on his leadership in this matter. This debate contrasts enormously with another on the same subject in which at least two Opposition Members were decrying any involvement of private companies in the public sector. My Surrey community health care contract …..."Jonathan Lord - View Speech
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