Local Government Finance Bill — Clause 1 — Local Retention of Business Rates — 18 Jan 2012 at 15:15
Sheryll Murray MP, South East Cornwall voted against delaying enabling local councils to keep money raised from business rates in their areas.
The majority of MPs voted against delaying enabling local councils to keep money raised from business rates in their areas.
The text of the rejected amendment was:
- amendment 20, page 2, line 13, leave out ‘2013’ and insert ‘2014
This would have taken effect on clause 5(3) of the Local Government Finance Bill with the result of delaying the introduction of local retention of non-domestic rates by a year, until 2014.
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 |
Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Con | 269 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 88.2% |
DUP | 2 | 6 | 0 | 100.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 234 (+2 tell) | 0 | 91.5% |
LDem | 45 (+1 tell) | 1 | 0 | 82.5% |
SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
Total: | 316 | 246 | 0 | 89.1% |
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 |
Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | no |
Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | aye |