Michael Cashman

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Michael Cashman, MEP

Michael Cashman (born 17 December 1950, London) is a British MEP from Labour Party and a former actor.


Affiliations

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Financial Support Received in Connection with Political Acivities:

  • Financial Donations, granted by UNITY Trade Union; International Lesbian & Gay Association (Europe) towards the LGBT Intergroup

Further Information:

  • I employ my civil partner, Paul Cottingham as Accounts Manager, Personnel Manager and Payroll Administrator at £30,000 pa (inclusive of travel and expenses).[1]

Conflict of Interest

  • Cashman's civil partner Paul Cottingham is the director of Cause Celebre Limited - a high-profile PR firm, which has held events for Labour Party.[2]

Record of Parliamentary Votes

  • Voted in favour of the directive on "establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy" (A5-0027/2000). The directive covers all water management aspects in order to achieve a 'good status' of all waters by 2015.[3]
  • Voted in favour of the directive on "national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants" (A5-0063/2000). The amendment allows setting less ambitious national emission ceilings for sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), ammonia (NH3) and volatile organic compounds (VOC), which would result in more damage to human health and the environment.[4]
  • Voted in favour of the Commission White Paper on "Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy" (A5-0356/2001). The amendment helps avoid the necessary precautionary approach towards some chemical substances that are not proven to be completely safe.[5]
  • Voted in favour of the directive on "waste electrical and electronic equipment" (A5-0100/2002). The amendment sets higher reuse and recycling rates for IT and telecommunication equipment.[6] Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.
  • Voted in favour of the report on "Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network" (A5-0135/2002). The Trans-European Network of Transport (TEN-T) is a network of so-called 'transport corridors' through Europe. This amendment calls for a full Strategic Environmental Assessment of these transport corridors and calls on the Commission to improve methods for analysing the environmental and economic impact of the TEN-T.[7]
  • Voted in favour of the regulation concerning "traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms" (A5-0229/2002). The amendment allows customers the right to choose GM free food.[8]
  • Voted in favour of the report towards a "thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides" (A5-0061/2003). The amendment proposes to ban or severely restrict use of pesticides in areas around sources of drinking water and nature protected zones.[9]
  • Voted in favour of the directive on "environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage" (A5-0145/2003). According to the amendment, polluters have to pay for environmental clean-up, and it supports an EU-wide regime which makes polluters liable for the damage they cause to wildlife, water and land.[10]
  • Voted against the directive on restructuring the "Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity" (A5-0302/2003). The amendment aims at giving tax benefits to environmentally friendly sources of energy, which would make them cheaper and more competitive to conventional (more polluting) sources of energy. It also gives tax benefits to environmentally friendly uses of energy for transport, for instance trains.[11] Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

  • Secondary education.
  • Actor, writer, singer, director, and television, theatre and film actor (1963-1999).
  • Auditor.
  • Member of the Labour Party since 1975.
  • Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee (1998- ).
  • Councillor and Honorary Treasurer, British Actors' Equity Association (1994-1998).
  • Member of the European Parliament (since 1999).
  • Special service award, American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (1998).
  • Founding Director of the Stonewall Group.
  • Patron of PressWise, Foodchain and SPACE (AIDS Counselling).
  • Gibraltar Gay Rights, The European Policy Network, Malta Gay Rights Movement, Friends and Families for Lesbians and Gays.
  • Trustee of the Evelyn Norris Trust.
  • Publications: forewords to 'Cultura emprendedora y la Unión Europea' by Marcelino Oreja Arburua, and 'Pro Europe' (Verlag MVV Medien).

Contact

Address:
Parlement européen
Bât. Altiero Spinelli
13G318
60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
Phone:
+32 (0)2 28 45759
Email:
mcashman@europarl.eu.int
Website:
http://www.michaelcashmanmep.org.uk

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Michael Cashman, 28 February 2008, accessed 10 February 2009.
  2. ↑ Cause Celebre, About Cause Celebre, accessed 10 February 2009.
  3. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  4. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  5. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  6. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  7. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  8. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  9. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  10. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  11. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
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