Opposition Day — Office for Budget Responsibility — Independent Audit of Spending and Tax Commitments in Manifestos — 25 Jun 2014 at 18:50

Mark Pritchard MP, The Wrekin voted against the Office for Budget Responsibility independently auditing the spending and tax commitments in the general election manifestos of the main political parties.

The majority of MPs voted against the Office for Budget Responsibility independently auditing the spending and tax commitments in the general election manifestos of the main political parties.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • believes the role of the Office for Budget Responsibility should be enhanced to allow it to independently audit the spending and tax commitments in the general election manifestos of the main political parties, and
  • calls for legislative proposals to enable this to be brought forward at the earliest opportunity.

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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
Con244 (+1 tell) 0080.3%
DUP2 0025.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 214 (+2 tell)083.7%
LDem43 (+1 tell) 0078.6%
PC0 30100.0%
Total:289 218081.0%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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