Draft Community Right to Challenge (Fire and Rescue Authorities and Rejection of Expressions of Interest) (England) Regulations 2012 — 20 Jun 2012 at 19:54

Justine Greening MP, Putney voted to extend the ability of various groups to bid to take over state-run services to fire and rescue services and extend the grounds on which bids to run services can be rejected.

The majority of MPs voted to approve regulations related to the "community right to challenge" laws which give various groups the right to bid to take over local state-run services.

The regulations approved in this vote extended the scope of the right to challenge laws to cover specified fire and rescue authorities and provided for additional grounds on which bids could be rejected.

One ground for rejecting a bid introduced by the regulations was if the service in question is provided to people also receiving NHS services continued integration with those NHS services such services is, in the opinion of the relevant authority, critical to the well-being of those persons.

The motion approved by the majority of MPs was:

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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
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con234 0076.5%
DUP5 0062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 193075.1%
LDem42 0073.7%
PC0 2066.7%
Total:282 196075.5%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

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