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McLetchie, David

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McLetchie, David

Former (by-election triggered) Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Lothian

Politically, you're most like Scanlon, Mary Con — similarity 73.8/100.

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Divisions voted in
199
last on 20 Feb 2013
Party alignment
100.0%
0.0% rebellion
Attendance
54.1%
169 "Not Voted" of 368 divisions present
Motions lodged
64
326 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
4,866
2,394 chamber · 2,472 committee
Allowances claimed
£0
0 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
bill ·320 stage ·167 review ·93 criminal ·83 reform ·80 police ·74 fire ·69 cases ·59 punishment ·59 carloway ·34 offensive ·28 behaviour ·28
Recent motions & questions
  • Question
    S4T-00158 · 11 Dec 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09744 · 03 Oct 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09632 · 28 Sep 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09631 · 28 Sep 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09411 · 13 Sep 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09388 · 13 Sep 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09295 · 13 Sep 2012
  • Question
    S4W-09294 · 13 Sep 2012
Motion success

Of the motions they've lodged that went to a vote, how often did the chamber agree.

Lodged
64
Carried
0
Defeated
1
Not divided
63

Of the 1 motion that went to a vote, 0.0% were carried.

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Voice fingerprint

Words and phrases this MSP uses far more often than the chamber average (TF-IDF over their Hansard contributions).

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Career arc

Unified timeline: party joinings, seat changes, committee appointments, ministerial roles.

  1. ☷
    Left Justice Committee
    12 Aug 2013
  2. ⌂
    Stood down from Lothian (Deceased)
    12 Aug 2013
  3. –
    Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    12 Aug 2013
  4. ☷
    Left Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
    04 May 2013
  5. ☷
    Left Scotland Bill Committee
    01 May 2012
  6. ☷
    Joined Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee as Substitute Member
    01 Feb 2012
  7. ☷
    Left Finance Committee
    25 Jan 2012
  8. ☷
    Joined Justice Committee as Member
    16 Nov 2011
  9. ☷
    Joined Finance Committee as Substitute Member
    23 Jun 2011
  10. ☷
    Joined Scotland Bill Committee as Member
    09 Jun 2011
  11. ⌂
    Started representing Lothian
    05 May 2011
  12. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    05 May 2011
  13. ☷
    Left Scotland Bill Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  14. ☷
    Left Local Government and Communities Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  15. ☷
    Left Justice Committee
    22 Mar 2011
  16. ⌂
    Stood down from Edinburgh Pentlands (Dissolution)
    22 Mar 2011
  17. –
    Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    22 Mar 2011
  18. ☷
    Joined Justice Committee as Substitute Member
    24 Feb 2011
  19. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Communities Committee as Substitute Member
    22 Dec 2010
  20. ☷
    Left Local Government and Communities Committee
    22 Dec 2010
  21. ☷
    Joined Scotland Bill Committee as Member
    01 Dec 2010
  22. ☷
    Left Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme Committee
    22 Jan 2009
  23. ☷
    Joined Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme Committee as Member
    27 Jun 2007
  24. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Communities Committee as Member
    13 Jun 2007
  25. ⌂
    Started representing Edinburgh Pentlands
    03 May 2007
  26. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    03 May 2007
  27. ☷
    Left Enterprise and Culture Committee
    02 Apr 2007
  28. ☷
    Left Local Government and Transport Committee
    02 Apr 2007
  29. ⌂
    Stood down from Edinburgh Pentlands (Dissolution)
    02 Apr 2007
  30. –
    Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    02 Apr 2007
  31. ☷
    Joined Enterprise and Culture Committee as Substitute Member
    22 Feb 2006
  32. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Transport Committee as Member
    22 Feb 2006
  33. ⌂
    Started representing Edinburgh Pentlands
    01 May 2003
  34. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    01 May 2003
  35. ⌂
    Stood down from Lothians (Dissolution)
    31 Mar 2003
  36. –
    Left Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    31 Mar 2003
  37. ⌂
    Started representing Lothians
    06 May 1999
  38. +
    Joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
    06 May 1999
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Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Prison Visits Committee
    29 Jan 2013
    The prisoners’ work programme has limitations, many of which are to do with the significant number of relatively short-stay prisoners, in that it is harder to …
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    11 Dec 2012
    Is that not two weeks later than we were advised?
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    11 Dec 2012
    No wonder we get this European Union stuff wrong.
  • Petition Committee
    11 Dec 2012
    I concur with what John Finnie and Roderick Campbell have said. We should keep the petition open until we get information back from Dumfries and Galloway Const…
  • School Exclusions and Offending Committee
    11 Dec 2012
    Our paper on the issue starts with a discussion of the link between exclusion and offending. As the evidence has been laid out in the discussion, we have disco…
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