March 2012 Budget — 26 Mar 2012 at 21:39

The budget approved by the majority of MPs set out plans for spending £683 billion in 2012-13 when expected revenue was £592 billion (a deficit of £91 billion).

Key points from the Budget:

  • An announcement the Government will increase the income tax, tax free personal allowance by a further £1,100 in April 2013, taking it to £9,205 in total.
  • Recovery of Child Benefit from those households where there is an individual earning over £50,000
  • To reduce the top rate of income tax from 50 per cent to 45 per cent from April 2013
  • To reduce the main rate of corporation tax by an additional one per cent from April 2012. The rate will therefore fall by two per cent, from 26 per cent to 24 per cent in April 2012, to 23 per cent in April 2013 and to 22 per cent in April 2014.
  • introducing a new Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) rate of 7 per cent for residential properties over £2 million.

The capital allowance changes in the budget are are mixture of increases and decreases; overall the effect is a tax increase.

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Debate in Parliament | Source |

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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
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con276 (+1 tell) 0090.5%
DUP0 80100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 221 (+2 tell)086.8%
LDem50 (+1 tell) 0089.5%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:326 243089.1%

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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NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

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