Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill — Parliamentary oversight of police and prison service pay — rejected — 6 May 2008 at 19:45

The majority of MPs voted to remove a clause[1] that had been inserted into the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill[2] by the House of Lords,[3] which said:

  • The Home Secretary may not make regulations under the Police Act 1996[4] that differ from the recommendations of the Police Negotiation Board, or regulations under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994[5] that differ from the recommendations of Prison Service Pay Review Board, unless they have been put to a vote by MPs.

According to reports, Labour backbenchers had planned a rebellion on this vote, but in the hurry to get this Bill passed before midnight, there was too much confusion and the rebels voted with the government by mistake. One Realising the error, Jeremy Corbyn negated his vote by voting both.[6]

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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 139 (+2 tell)073.4%
DUP0 4044.4%
Independent0 2160.0%
Independent Labour0 10100.0%
Lab268 (+2 tell) 5278.9%
LDem0 57090.5%
PC0 30100.0%
UKIP0 10100.0%
Total:268 212377.9%

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
David DrewStroudLab (minister)no
Kate HoeyVauxhallLab (minister)no
Kelvin HopkinsLuton NorthLab (minister)no
Alan SimpsonNottingham SouthLabno
Keith VazLeicester EastLab (minister)no
Katy ClarkNorth Ayrshire and ArranLab (minister)both
Jeremy CorbynIslington NorthLabboth

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