Superannuation Bill — Second Reading — 7 Sep 2010 at 21:44

The majority of MPs voted to cap civil service redundancy payments at a maximum of 12 months’ pay for compulsory redundancy and 15 months’ for voluntary exits.

The vote was technically on if the Superannuation Bill[1] should be read a second time ie. if it ought continue on its path towards becoming law.

  • [1] Superannuation Bill UK Parliament page showing progress of the bill and containing links to its text.

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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
Con284 (+1 tell) 0093.1%
DUP0 6075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 224 (+2 tell)087.6%
LDem42 (+1 tell) 4082.5%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 4066.7%
Total:326 244089.4%

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
Mike HancockPortsmouth Southwhilst LDem (front bench)no
Martin HorwoodCheltenhamLDemno
Bob RussellColchesterLDem (front bench)no
David WardBradford EastLDem (front bench)no

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