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Peter Bone : biography

19 October 1952 –

Peter William Bone (born 19 October 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough constituency.

Political funding

Wellingborough Conservative Association has received funding from the – £35,000 in 2004-5 – http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/58528/FOI6108-online-version-all-documents.pdf according to . The group is chaired by Bob Edmison, founder of Christian Vision http://www.secularism.org.uk/more-evangelists-appointed-to-lo.html. Midlands Industrial Council only lists one midlands industrial company member, among other individuals with an interest in importing products to the UK rather than in midlands industry.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Edmistonhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6051200.stm The and private individuals have also contributedhttp://searchthemoney.com/profile/69/1216 Lord Ashcroft of Belize’http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-peer-who-bankrolls-tories-341762 company, Bearwood Corporate Services Ltd (now ),https://www.duedil.com/company/00709846/impellam-ventures-limited contributed in 2005-6.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-blue-baron-how-the-tories-rely-on-ashcroft-1812270.html

Bone is an avid responder to paid-for political polls and declares the £75 payments received. The USA National Football League donates a pair of wembley tickets to him each year.

Expenses

MPs receive more than double the average Income in the United Kingdom.http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/ plus free postage and expenses.http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/peter-bone/ Bone employs his wife, Jennie, as his executive secretary. In 2007–2008 he paid her "in the top bracket of up to £40,000" per annum and was also one of 32 MPs who claimed the maximum allowance of £4,800 a year for food. His expenses for 2007–2008 were ranked 115 out of 645 MPs.

His expenses for 2008–2009 were ranked 84th. He was not mentioned in the 2009 Legg Report and therefore was not one of the 343 MPs required to pay back any money.

Recent summerised expenses with links to detail are on and interests on the

Private member’s bills

He sponsored European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal) Bill 2010–11: a Bill to make provision for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights.

Political views

Bone is a supporter of faith groupshttp://paulflynnmp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/02/exclusively-foolish-cult.html, the right-wing of the Conservative Party, and is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group. He has suggested major constitutional changes such as abolition of the Whip office and confirmation of new Cabinet appointees.http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2010/10/peter-bone-suggests-confirmation-hearings-for-newly-appointed-cabinet-ministers.html His criticisms of the NHS include a 2007 report, in which he argued that it "would not be out of place in Stalin’s Russia". He has voted to lower the abortion time limit to twelve weeks and voted against abolishing the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel. He has urged the charity commission to award the tax breaks of registration to any legal faith group.http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/12/peter-bone-mp.html The abortion time limit vote failed, the blasphemy vote passed, and tax breaks were not awarded.http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/1045/104502.htmhttp://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-05-06&number=170&display=allvotes

Bone has signed several Early Day Motions supporting homoeopathy, and voted against regulations which secured equality for gay men and women in the provision of goods and services in 2007. In 2012, Bone described government proposals to introduce same-sex marriage rights as "completely nuts", He subsequently voted against the bill which passed its second reading in February 2013. In 2013 Bone was one of 4 MPs who camped outside Parliament in a move to facilitate parliamentary debate on what they called an “Alternative Queen’s Speech” -an attempt to show what a future Conservative government might deliver. Some 42 policies were listed including reintroduction of the death penalty and conscription, privatizing the BBC, banning the burka in public places and preparation to leave the European Union. The Daily Telegraph believes the whips sent Edward Leigh to try and persuade the group not to table the amendments. Bone blamed the Liberal Democrats for tying David Cameron’s hands.