Health and Social Care Bill — 13 Mar 2012 at 19:22

Martin Horwood MP, Cheltenham voted against proposed NHS reforms including giving more power to GPs to commission services, strengthening the Care Quality Commission, and cutting admin costs for example by abolishing Primary Care Trusts.

The majority of MPs voted to support the Health and Social Care Bill.

The vote was on the motion:

  • That this House
  • notes the e-petition signed by 170,000 people calling on the Government to drop the Health and Social Care Bill; and
  • declines to support the Bill in its current form.

Parliament describes the key areas of the Bill as being[1]:

  • establishes an independent NHS Board to allocate resources and provide commissioning guidance
  • increases GPs’ powers to commission services on behalf of their patients
  • strengthens the role of the Care Quality Commission
  • develops Monitor, the body that currently regulates NHS foundation trusts, into an economic regulator to oversee aspects of access and competition in the NHS
  • cuts the number of health bodies to help meet the Government's commitment to cut NHS administration costs by a third, including abolishing Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities.

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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%
Con272 (+1 tell) 0089.2%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 241093.8%
LDem42 (+1 tell) 5 (+2 tell)087.7%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 5083.3%
Total:314 260090.5%

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
Andrew GeorgeSt IvesLDem (front bench)aye
Martin HorwoodCheltenhamLDemaye
Julian HuppertCambridgeLDem (front bench)aye
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDem (front bench)aye
Greg MulhollandLeeds North WestLDem (front bench)tellaye
John PughSouthportLDem (front bench)aye
Adrian SandersTorbayLDemtellaye

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