Tom Clarke

Labour - Former Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill

First elected: 24th June 1982

Left House: 30th March 2015 (Defeated)


Tom Clarke is not a member of any APPGs
Committee of Privileges
7th Jan 2013 - 30th Mar 2015
Committee on Standards
7th Jan 2013 - 30th Mar 2015
Standards and Privileges
26th Jul 2010 - 7th Jan 2013
Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee)
23rd Jun 2011 - 26th Mar 2012
Administration Committee
4th Feb 2008 - 6th May 2010
Draft Disability Discrimination Bill (Joint Committee)
15th Jan 2004 - 27th May 2004
Minister of State (Department of National Heritage/Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
6th May 1997 - 28th Jul 1998
Shadow Cabinet Minister for Disabled People's Rights
1st Jul 1995 - 1st May 1997
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
1st Jul 1993 - 22nd Jul 1994
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
10th Apr 1992 - 1st Jul 1993
Shadow Minister (Disability)
12th Jun 1987 - 9th Apr 1992
Health and Social Care Committee
31st Oct 1991 - 16th Mar 1992
Scottish Affairs Committee
17th Dec 1982 - 19th Mar 1987


Division Voting information

Tom Clarke has voted in 1630 divisions, and 30 times against the majority of their Party.

21 May 2013 - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 14 Labour No votes vs 194 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 366 Noes - 161
20 May 2013 - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 18 Labour Aye votes vs 190 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 163 Noes - 321
5 Feb 2013 - Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 22 Labour No votes vs 216 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 400 Noes - 175
12 Mar 2012 - Backbench Business Committee - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 18 Labour No votes vs 41 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 105 Noes - 186
22 Jun 2011 - Smoking in Private Vehicles - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 5 Labour No votes vs 43 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 78 Noes - 66
22 Oct 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 48 Labour Aye votes vs 230 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 215 Noes - 299
22 Oct 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 49 Labour Aye votes vs 227 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 206 Noes - 298
22 Oct 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 47 Labour Aye votes vs 226 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 194 Noes - 306
22 Oct 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 45 Labour Aye votes vs 226 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 183 Noes - 308
22 Oct 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 16 Labour No votes vs 261 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 355 Noes - 129
3 Jul 2008 - Members’ Salaries - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 82 Labour Aye votes vs 136 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 155 Noes - 196
3 Jul 2008 - Members’ Salaries - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 66 Labour Aye votes vs 159 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 141 Noes - 216
3 Jul 2008 - Members’ Salaries - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 62 Labour Aye votes vs 152 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 123 Noes - 224
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 47 Labour Aye votes vs 226 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 217 Noes - 292
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 48 Labour Aye votes vs 227 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 222 Noes - 290
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 14 Labour Aye votes vs 255 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 71 Noes - 393
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 16 Labour Aye votes vs 251 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 84 Noes - 387
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 39 Labour Aye votes vs 240 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 190 Noes - 332
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 42 Labour Aye votes vs 229 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 173 Noes - 309
20 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 56 Labour Aye votes vs 231 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 233 Noes - 304
19 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 61 Labour Aye votes vs 215 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 176 Noes - 336
19 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 62 Labour Aye votes vs 216 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 223 Noes - 286
19 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 58 Labour Aye votes vs 217 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 181 Noes - 314
19 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 51 Labour Aye votes vs 225 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 163 Noes - 342
19 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 51 Labour Aye votes vs 216 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 293
12 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 10 Labour No votes vs 253 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 340 Noes - 78
12 May 2008 - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 7 Labour No votes vs 250 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 265 Noes - 149
19 Mar 2007 - UK Borders Bill - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 10 Labour No votes vs 241 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 310 Noes - 100
14 Mar 2007 - Contraception and Abortion (Parental Information) - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted Aye - against a party majority and against the House
One of 5 Labour Aye votes vs 123 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 87 Noes - 159
7 Mar 2007 - House of Lords Reform - View Vote Context
Tom Clarke voted No - against a party majority and against the House
One of 152 Labour No votes vs 162 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 416 Noes - 163
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All Debates

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Department Debates
Department for Work and Pensions
(83 debate contributions)
Department of Health and Social Care
(44 debate contributions)
HM Treasury
(38 debate contributions)
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Legislation Debates
Tom Clarke has not made any spoken contributions to legislative debate
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Latest EDMs signed by Tom Clarke

Tom Clarke has not signed any Early Day Motions

Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Tom Clarke, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.


Tom Clarke has not been granted any Urgent Questions

1 Adjournment Debate led by Tom Clarke

Monday 3rd September 2012

1 Bill introduced by Tom Clarke


The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress.

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading: House Of Commons
Wednesday 17th November 2010

Tom Clarke has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 18 Written Questions

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Written Questions can be tabled by MPs and Lords to request specific information information on the work, policy and activities of a Government Department
2 Other Department Questions
25th Jun 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will ensure that his legislative proposals aimed at creating a public register of beneficial ownership ensure that information in the register has undergone verification.

The Government recognises that register integrity is an important issue. This Department is carefully considering with Companies House and others what checks are necessary to ensure integrity of data and that the registration of company information in the UK remains quick, simple and inexpensive.

The current UK register is one of the most open in the world, and is accessed over 240 million times a year. This means the information is policed on a significant scale by the public, who report anomalies to Companies House for follow up.

4th Jun 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on a minimum monetary threshold for a late payment which affects an individual's credit rating.

Credit ratings will take into account a number of different variables, including late payment, but it is a commercial judgement taken by Credit Reference Agencies.

15th Jan 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants of personal independence payments waited more than 16 weeks for a face-to-face assessment by each provider since the introduction of that payment.

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer I gave on the 12 January 2015 to Question UIN 220004.

22nd Jul 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether disability employment advisers will remain part of the support offered to claimants under universal credit.

The Disability and Health Employment Strategy published in December 2013 sets out our expectation that the work carried out by DEAs in Jobcentres will continue.

22nd Jul 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on retaining disability employment advisors as part of the support offered to clients by jobcentre plus.

The Disability and Health Employment Strategy published in December 2013 sets out our expectation that the work carried out by DEAs in Jobcentres will continue.

12th Jun 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will create an independent panel to review and assess the effectiveness of the employment and support allowance and work capability assessment tests.

The department has already conducted four independent reviews of the WCA, the most recent of which was completed on 12 December 2013 and is published online at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-4

A fifth and final independent review is currently underway and is due to be completed by the end of the year.

In addition to these independent reviews the Department has conducted an Evidence Based Review of the WCA in which the descriptors for mental health and fluctuating conditions were examined by an independent panel against an alternative assessment designed in conjunction with representative groups and charities. On 12 December 2013 the Department published the results of this online at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-evidence-based-review

19th Mar 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that local authorities should be required to provide appropriate support where it is identified through an official safeguarding inquiry that further support is needed to protect a person from the risk of abuse or neglect.

The Care Act 2014 clarifies and strengthens the processes to support adults who are at risk from abuse or neglect in the following ways:

- Where local authorities have reasonable cause to expect a person is at risk of abuse or neglect they must carry out a safeguarding enquiry, consider what if any actions are needed, and who should carry these out. This makes clear that there is no eligibility threshold and allows authorities flexibility to respond to a safeguarding issue appropriately, which may be through the authority or one of its partners such as the police.

- The statutory Care Act guidance clarifies that where a local authority has started a safeguarding enquiry but identifies a potential need for a care and support service, it should continue the needs assessment for care and support in parallel, and determine whether the person has eligible needs which it must meet. The eligibility criteria is based upon whether the person’s needs have a significant impact on their wellbeing, which includes abuse and neglect. While the authority is likely to have already identified any safeguarding issues earlier and made an enquiry, it would still consider these at the eligibility determination as it would clearly impact on the person’s wellbeing.

- The care and support system should support the above by having a comprehensive preventative strategy that promotes wellbeing and independence, and one that does not wait to respond when people reach a crisis point.

6th Jan 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Supreme Court decision on the Abortion Act 1967 in relation to staff of NHS Greater Glasgow and North Clyde in December 2014, if he will take steps to protect individual rights of conscience for administrative personnel in the NHS and ensure that the decisions of those who do not wish to be involved in any aspect of abortion procedures are respected; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to clarify the legal rights of healthcare workers across the UK in relation to this issue.

The recent Supreme Court decision upholds the long standing interpretation of Section 4 of the Abortion Act that the right to object to participate in abortion treatment is limited to those staff who actually take part in treatment administered in a hospital or other approved place.

16th Dec 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS Foundation Trusts have self-certified to Monitor in their quarterly return for January to March 2014 that they are not compliant with the criteria in the Monitor risk assessment framework, relating to meeting health needs of people with a learning disability.

No NHS foundation trusts self-certified to Monitor in their quarterly return for January to March 2014 that they were not compliant with the criteria in the Monitor risk assessment framework, relating to meeting health needs of people with a learning disability.

11th Dec 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure the routine availability of raloxifene to reduce the risk of breast cancer developing in high-risk women.

I refer the hon. Member to the Answer I gave the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) on 19 November 2014 to Question 213936.

11th Dec 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what medical research charities he has met to discuss the Off-patent Drugs Bill.

We will be discussing a number of issues the Bill raises at a roundtable stakeholder event in the new year and which will include a number of representatives from medical research charities.

5th Dec 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to use the Care Act 2014 to promote the provision of low-level support to people with autism.

The Care Act will be implemented from April 2015.

A period of consultation is underway until 19 December on revised statutory guidance for local authorities and the NHS to implement Think Autism, the 2014 update to the 2010 Adult Autism Strategy. This includes coverage of preventing, delaying or reducing the care needs of adults with autism or their carers by providing low level preventative support and enabling people with autism to be connected with peers and with local community groups in line with the duties of the Care Act. The statutory guidance when it is issued in February 2015 will complement the existing Care Act guidance on prevention.

30th Oct 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths of people with a learning disability there have been in (a) assessment and treatment units and (b) other inpatient units in the last five years.

Information about deaths of people with a learning disability in assessment and treatment units is not collected centrally by the Department, NHS England or the Care Quality Commission.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects hospital episode statistics data. These data identify the number of hospital episodes where a patient had a primary or secondary diagnosis of a learning disability where the patient died.

From 2008-09 to 2012-2013 there were a total of 817 deaths for admitted patients at all hospitals in England. This number includes all deaths from all causes while a hospital patient.

The breakdown for each of the last five years is in the following table.

Year

Number of deaths

2008-09

123

2009-10

168

2010-11

162

2011-12

172

2012-13

192

Total

817

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre

These data are not available by individual departments or units within hospitals. They also do not represent the deaths of people with learning disabilities where learning disability is not recorded as a primary or secondary diagnosis.

NHS England is setting up a National Learning Disability Mortality Review to better understand what causes people who have a learning disability to die, on average, at a younger age than other people; and to learn from what has happened to ensure that NHS services improve the way they care for people with a learning disability.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the £2.7 million announced for learning disability in the recently published NHS England business plan for 2014-15 will be spent on the proposed premature mortality review function.

NHS England has made £1.5 million available in 2014-15 to undertake the work required to establish a national learning disability mortality review function by the end of March 2015. NHS England is currently undertaking work to define the detail of how the review function will operate. However, NHS England is clear that the starting point will be the proposals put forward by the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities team and will aim to develop proposals with input from a range of partners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether responsibility for implementing the premature mortality review function for people with a learning disability, announced in the NHS England business plan 2014-15 will sit at a national or local level; whether all local areas in England will be mandated to implement the review; and how local areas will be held accountable for implementing the review.

NHS England has made £1.5 million available in 2014-15 to undertake the work required to establish a national learning disability mortality review function by the end of March 2015. NHS England is currently undertaking work to define the detail of how the review function will operate. However, NHS England is clear that the starting point will be the proposals put forward by the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities team and will aim to develop proposals with input from a range of partners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the premature mortality review function for people with a learning disability, announced in the NHS England business plan 2014-15, to become fully operational; whether the data from that review will be analysed at a national level; and when he expects initial findings from that review to become available.

NHS England has made £1.5 million available in 2014-15 to undertake the work required to establish a national learning disability mortality review function by the end of March 2015. NHS England is currently undertaking work to define the detail of how the review function will operate. However, NHS England is clear that the starting point will be the proposals put forward by the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities team and will aim to develop proposals with input from a range of partners.

4th Jun 2014
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the threshold charge payable for a type 2 machine for the purposes of calculating machine gaming duty was set at £5.

I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Explanatory Note for Clause 117 of Finance Bill 2014, which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298680/ENs_Finance_Bill_2014__1_.pdf