Finance Bill — Increase in Rate of Value Added Tax — 13 Jul 2010 at 22:15

Stewart Jackson MP, Peterborough voted to increase in Value Added Tax from 17.5% to 20% from the 4th of January 2011.

The majority of MPs voted in favour of an increase in Value Added Tax from 17.5% to 20% from the 4th of January 2011.

The vote was on if Clause 3 of the Finance Bill[1] ought remain part of the Bill.

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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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con274 (+1 tell) 0089.9%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 227 (+2 tell)088.8%
LDem46 (+1 tell) 1186.0%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:320 245188.8%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Bob RussellColchesterLDem (front bench)no
Andrew GeorgeSt IvesLDem (front bench)both

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