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Dakin has a mixed voting record on fracking. <ref> [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24798/nicholas_dakin/scunthorpe/divisions?policy=6741 TheyWorkForYou | Nicholas Dakin], ''TheyWorkForYou'', accessed 3 January 2017. </ref>
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*26 January 2015: voted in favour of making fracking companies apply for an environmental permit before conducting exploratory drilling. He was absent  for a vote on an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill to include an 18 month moratorium on fracking.
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*11 February 2015: voted against requiring more pre-conditions for where fracking can take place.
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*16 December 2015: voted against weakening regulations on fracking in protected areas and national parks.
  
 
==All-party parliamentary groups==
 
==All-party parliamentary groups==

Revision as of 14:29, 3 January 2017

Nic Dakin

Nic Dakin has been the UK Labour Party MP for Scunthrope since 2010. He was re-elected in May 2015 with 42 per cent of the vote, increasing his majority to 3,134. [1]

In 2011 Dakin was appointed opposition whip.

Stance on fracking

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Voting record

Dakin has a mixed voting record on fracking. [2]

  • 26 January 2015: voted in favour of making fracking companies apply for an environmental permit before conducting exploratory drilling. He was absent for a vote on an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill to include an 18 month moratorium on fracking.
  • 11 February 2015: voted against requiring more pre-conditions for where fracking can take place.
  • 16 December 2015: voted against weakening regulations on fracking in protected areas and national parks.

All-party parliamentary groups

Notes

  1. Nic Dakin www.parliament.uk, accessed 11 May 2015
  2. TheyWorkForYou | Nicholas Dakin, TheyWorkForYou, accessed 3 January 2017.
  3. About Nic Dakin, accessed 11 May 2015
  4. Wine & Spirit APPG Register Feb 16, www.parliament.uk, accessed 19 February 2016