Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2012 — Extension of Legal Aid to Certain Welfare Appeals and Certain International Child Benefit Recovery Cases — 5 Dec 2012 at 18:39
Alan Duncan MP, Rutland and Melton did not vote.
The majority of MPs voted to extend legal aid to certain welfare appeals and certain international child benefit recovery cases.
The motion approved in this vote was:
- That the draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2012, which was laid before this House on 29 October, be approved.
The order extends the provision of legal aid to:
- advice and assistance for welfare benefit cases in the First-tier Tribunal where the Tribunal has identified an error of law in its own decision.
- in relation to applications under the Convention on the international recovery of child support and other forms of family maintenance concluded at The Hague on 23 November 2007 (the “2007 Hague Convention”)
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Con | 241 | 0 | 0 | 79.0% |
DUP | 6 | 0 | 0 | 75.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 205 | 0 | 79.5% |
LDem | 40 | 0 | 0 | 70.2% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
Total: | 288 | 213 | 0 | 78.6% |
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
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