Finance Bill — New Clause 12 — Rate of VAT — 3 Jul 2012 at 19:30

Stewart Jackson MP, Peterborough voted against cutting VAT from 20% to 17.5%

The majority of MPs voted against a proposal to cut VAT from 20% to 17.5% and keep it at that rate until the UK economy returns to strong growth.

The text of the rejected new clause was:

  • (1) In section 2(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (Rate of VAT) for “20 per cent.” substitute “17.5 per cent.”.
  • (2) Subsection (1) shall have effect from Royal Assent and shall expire at such time as the Government presents to Parliament a report stating that the UK economy has returned to strong growth.’.

Debate in Parliament | Source |

Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to Octopus Energy or tip us via Ko-Fi.

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
Con259 (+1 tell) 0085.0%
DUP0 6075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 222 (+2 tell)087.2%
LDem48 (+1 tell) 0086.0%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:307 240086.0%

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
no rebellions

About the Project

The Public Whip is a not-for-profit, open source website created in 2003 by Francis Irving and Julian Todd and now run by Bairwell Ltd.

The Whip on the Web

Help keep PublicWhip alive