Local Government Finance Bill (Money) — 10 Jan 2012 at 22:15

The majority of MPs voted to fund support paying council tax for those in financial need and to fund technical reforms to council tax.

The motion[1] supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

  • That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Local Government Finance Bill[2], it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
  • (a) any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State in consequence of the Act, and
  • (b) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of money so provided

Had this motion not passed central government would not have been able to provide money to local Government to fund support paying council tax for those in financial need; or to fund the technical reforms to council tax provided for in the bill.

Costs anticipated to be incurred as a result of the Bill were itemised in the Summary impact assessment[3]

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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con260 (+1 tell) 0085.3%
DUP6 0075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 186 (+2 tell)072.9%
LDem48 (+1 tell) 0086.0%
PC0 1033.3%
Total:314 189080.0%

Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency

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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NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

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