International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill — New Clause 5 — Consider Payments to the EU, Welfare Benefits for Foreign Nationals and More as Development Aid — 5 Dec 2014 at 11:45
The majority of MPs voted against including the amount paid by the UK to the EU, welfare benefits paid to foreign nationals and those living abroad, and the costs of the Department for International Development in calculations of international aid spending.
MPs were considering the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill[1]. The Bill provides for a target of at least 0.7% of national income being spent on international aid and includes arrangements for evaluation of that aid spending.
The proposed new clause rejected in this vote stated:
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An amount equivalent to the following annual payments, or estimates thereof, shall be included in the calculation of annual UK ODA for the purposes of section 1—
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(a) the amount payable by the United Kingdom to the European Union.
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(b) Welfare benefits paid to foreign nationals.
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(c) Welfare benefits paid to UK nationals living abroad.
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(d) The administrative costs of the Department for International Development and its agencies and associated public bodies.
The motion rejected in this vote was:
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That the clause be read a Second time.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con | no |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | no |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con | no |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | no |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | no |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst Independent | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | no |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | no |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | no |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | no |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | no |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | no |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | no |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | UKIP | aye |
