Increased Commercialisation of the House of Commons to Generate Income — 8 Nov 2012 at 14:59
Ben Wallace MP, Wyre and Preston North voted in favour of plans to increase Parliament's income by three million pounds per year by extending its operations as a commercial visitor attraction, additional retail activities, and greater commercial hire of rooms.
The majority of MPs voted in favour of plans to increase Parliament's income by three million pounds per year by extending its operations as a commercial visitor attraction, additional retail activities, and greater commercial hire of rooms.
MPs were considering the motion:
- That this House
- notes the medium-term financial plan for the House of Commons Administration as set out in Appendix A to the First Report from the Finance and Services Committee (HC 691);
- endorses the intention of the Committee to recommend to the House of Commons Commission a House of Commons Administration Estimate 5 for 2013-14 of £220 million;
- notes the intention of the House of Commons Commission to make savings of 17 per cent in real terms from 2010-11 level by 2014-15 in line with the wider public sector; and
- endorses the Savings Programme as set out in Appendix B to the report.
The amendment rejected in this vote was:
- Amendment (c), in line 8, after ‘report’, insert
‘, save that proposals under the income generation category be deferred for approval to a future date, so that more detailed information is available to Members, and also to give the House a specific opportunity to vote on whether it accepts the increased commercialisation of Parliament.‘
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 (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 117 (+1 tell) | 9 (+2 tell) | 0 | 42.3% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 43 | 3 | 0 | 18.3% |
LDem | 18 (+1 tell) | 1 | 0 | 35.1% |
Total: | 179 | 13 | 0 | 31.9% |
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 |
John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | aye |
Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | aye |
Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |