Local Government Finance Bill — Clause 1 — Local Retention of Business Rates — 18 Jan 2012 at 15:15

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.

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
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con269 (+1 tell) 0088.2%
DUP2 60100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 234 (+2 tell)091.5%
LDem45 (+1 tell) 1082.5%
SDLP0 2066.7%
Total:316 246089.1%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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
Mike HancockPortsmouth Southwhilst LDem (front bench)aye
Jim ShannonStrangfordDUP (front bench)no
Sammy WilsonEast AntrimDUP (front bench)no

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