Finance Bill — No Increase in VAT Rate for Charities — rejected — 13 Jul 2010 at 21:15

The majority of MPs voted against exempting charities' charitable activities from the January 2011 increase in VAT from 17.5% to 20%.

Liam Byrne, the Shadow Chief Chief Secretary to the Treasury proposed the following amendment[1] to the Finance Bill[2]:

The proposed additional clause (3A) states:

Debate in Parliament | Source |

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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.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con277 (+1 tell) 0090.8%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 225 (+2 tell)088.0%
LDem44 (+1 tell) 1080.7%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:321 243088.5%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Bob RussellColchesterLDem (front bench)aye

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