Local Government Funding — 28 Mar 2018 at 17:31

Jess Phillips MP, Birmingham, Yardley voted to review local government funding, and to immediately provide more resources to local government.

The majority of MPs voted to review local government funding, and to immediately provide more resources to local government.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • believes that local government has severely suffered as a result of almost eight years of brutal and devastating cuts;
  • notes with concern that the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that between 2010 and 2020 local government will have had direct funding cut by 79 per cent;
  • is concerned that the top ten most deprived councils in England are set to see cuts higher than the national average, with nine on course for cuts more than three times higher than the national average;
  • believes there is a risk that services and councils are reaching a financial breaking point;
  • calls on the Government to act on the warnings of the National Audit Office and initiate a review into the funding of local government to ensure that the sector has sustainable funding for the long term and to immediately provide more resources to prevent more authorities following Conservative-run Northamptonshire into effective bankruptcy; and
  • further calls on the Government to report to the House by Oral Statement and written report before 19 April 2018 on what steps it is taking to comply with this resolution.

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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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con0 000.0%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent1 0020.0%
Lab225 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)088.4%
LDem8 0066.7%
PC3 0075.0%
Total:238 0040.5%

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
Paul SweeneyGlasgow North EastLab (minister)tellno
Martin WhitfieldEast LothianLab (minister)tellno

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