Energy Bill — Renewable energy feed-in tariff — rejected — 30 Apr 2008 at 17:30
The majority of MPs voted against requiring the Secretary of State to establish a renewable energy feed-in tariff that would have rewarded consumers for each kilowatt hour of energy exported back onto the public gas or electricity network from a renewable source.[1]
The proposal[2] would have been included as part of the Energy Bill,[3] and resulted in a set of regulations being laid before Parliament within one year of the law being passed.
- [1] Brown suffers rebellion as MPs attempt to boost green power, The Guardian, 2 May 2008
- [2] Alan Simson MP, House of Commons, 30 April 2008.
- [3] Energy Bill, House of Commons, 12 March 2008.
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 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 65.1% |
| DUP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Independent | 0 | 3 | 0 | 60.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 250 (+2 tell) | 35 (+2 tell) | 0 | 82.3% |
| LDem | 0 | 35 | 0 | 55.6% |
| PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% |
| UKIP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 250 | 210 | 0 | 73.5% |
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
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