MPs' salaries — Increases capped to 2.3% — rejected — 3 Jul 2008 at 15:05
The majority of MPs voted against capping their annual salary to 2.3% by inserting the extra words[1] into the motion for debate:[2]
-
from 1st April 2008 and from 1st April of each subsequent year a Member's salary should be increased by the percentage increase in the 3 month average Public Sector Average Earnings Index for January of that year relative to the figure for January of the previous year...
-
provided that, without prejudice to the calculations based on the agreed formula, from 1st April 2008 the annual salary is increased by no more than 2.3 per cent. and that the balance of any increase due at 1st April 2008 should be payable from 1st April 2009 in addition to any increase payable at that date.
This motion for debate (effectively) amended in the next vote before it was passed.[3]
Debate in Parliament | Source |
Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please
consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to
Octopus Energy or
tip us via Ko-Fi.
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell?
'+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a
teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both
aye and no in the same division. The boths
page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against
the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 36 | 48 (+1 tell) | 0 | 44.3% |
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40.0% |
| Lab | 142 (+2 tell) | 84 (+1 tell) | 0 | 65.4% |
| LDem | 16 | 19 | 0 | 55.6% |
| SNP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 195 | 154 | 1 | 57.4% |
MPs
for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party.
You can see all votes in this division,
or every eligible MP who could have
voted in this division
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | no |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab | aye |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | aye |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Chaytor | Bury North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris McCafferty | Calder Valley | Lab | aye |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Ainger | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hugh Bayley | City of York | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adam Ingram | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab | aye |
| Anne Moffat | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Griffiths | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rudi Vis | Finchley and Golders Green | Lab | aye |
| Michael Howard | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | no |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Quentin Davies | Grantham and Stamford | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Hammersmith and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | aye |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington and Chelsea | Con | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab | aye |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | no |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Janet Anderson | Rossendale and Darwen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | aye |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab | aye |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | aye |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | West Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liam Fox | Woodspring | Con (front bench) | no |
