Welfare Reform Bill — Clause 93 — Exclusion of Child Benefit from Benefit Cap — 1 Feb 2012 at 17:00
Tracey Crouch MP, Chatham and Aylesford voted not to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap.
The majority of MPs voted not to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap.
The proposal, which MPs rejected, was to allow those already receiving benefits up to the amount allowed by the benefit cap to additionally receive child benefit.
MPs disagreed with Lords amendment 47 which had introduced the proposal. The text the rejected amendment in question was
- Clause 93
- Page 62, line 19, after “benefits” insert “with the exclusion of child benefit”[1]
This would have changed clause 93 (2) in the current bill[2] from:
- For the purposes of this section, applying a benefit cap to welfare benefits means securing that, where a single person’s or couple’s total entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of the reference period exceeds the relevant amount, their entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of any period of the same duration as the reference period is reduced by an amount up to or equalling the excess.
to
- For the purposes of this section, applying a benefit cap to welfare benefits means securing that, where a single person’s or couple’s total entitlement to welfare benefits in respect of the reference period exceeds the relevant amount, their entitlement to welfare benefits with the exclusion of child benefit in respect of any period of the same duration as the reference period is reduced by an amount up to or equalling the excess.
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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.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Con | 277 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 90.8% |
DUP | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 238 (+2 tell) | 0 | 93.0% |
LDem | 49 (+1 tell) | 1 | 0 | 89.5% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
SNP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% |
Total: | 334 | 251 | 0 | 91.6% |
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 |
Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | no |