MPs' expenses — outer-London MPs can no longer claim second home — 30 Apr 2009 at 17:00
The majority of MPs voted for a motion, which read:[1]
- With effect from 1 April 2010, no distinction shall be made for the purposes of the rules governing Members' allowances between an hon. Member who represents an inner-London constituency and an hon. Member who represents any other constituency the whole of which falls within 20 miles of the Palace of Westminster.
This motion takes 49 outer-London constituencies out of the travel and second home allowance scheme.[2]
As recently as July 2008 MPs voted against even reducing the allowable claim for outer-London MPs on second home expenses by 50%.[3][4]
- [1] Chris Bryant MP, House of Commons, 30 April 2009
- [2] Gordon Brown's second climbdown fuels Commons fury, The Guardian, 1 May 2009
- [3] MPs' allowances - External audits and no more furniture - rejected, House of Commons Division, 3 July 2008
- [4] Conclusions and Recommendations, Members Estimate Committee - Third Report, House of Commons, 23 June 2008
Party Summary
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 (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 55 | 22 (+2 tell) | 0 | 40.9% |
| DUP | 6 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Independent | 1 | 3 | 1 | 83.3% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 231 (+2 tell) | 12 | 0 | 70.0% |
| LDem | 52 | 1 | 0 | 84.1% |
| PC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Respect | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 71.4% |
| UUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 354 | 38 | 1 | 62.6% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by vote
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
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