Equality Bill — Decline Second Reading — 11 May 2009 at 21:45
George Galloway MP, Bethnal Green and Bow did not vote.
The motion rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
- That this House
- declines to give a Second Reading to the Equality Bill because it fails to address the root causes of the reduction in social mobility in recent years, fails to address the disability pay gap, especially in the Civil Service, gives employment tribunals too many powers in areas where they are not best placed to judge, contains disproportionate and bureaucratic proposals on the gender pay gap which will impose unnecessary costs on business whilst failing to solve the problem, fails to implement proposals on compulsory pay audits for those organisations which are found guilty of discrimination by an employment tribunal, gives Ministers the power to amend the Act by order instead of leaving this to Parliament, and allows discrimination in recruitment and promotion decisions.
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 (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 1 | 139 (+2 tell) | 0 | 73.6% |
Independent | 4 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
Lab | 277 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 79.7% |
LDem | 33 | 0 | 0 | 52.4% |
PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 71.4% |
Total: | 322 | 139 | 0 | 74.8% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
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 |
John Bercow | Buckingham | whilst Con (front bench) | no |