Opposition Day — Public Sector Pay Negotiation. — 20 Jun 2012 at 18:48

The majority of MPs voted to support changes to the way public sector pay is negotiated.

The text of the rejected motion was:

  • That this House
  • notes that the national pay review bodies have been an effective way of setting pay while allowing for appropriate regional and local variation consistent with the need to recruit, retain and motivate staff and to keep tight control of public spending;
  • believes that seeking to alter existing frameworks for negotiating and setting public sector pay could increase costs for the taxpayer as well as exacerbating regional inequalities;
  • further notes that unanswered questions about Scottish separation risk uncertainty for the thousands of staff employed in Scotland under UK-wide pay negotiations and bargaining mechanisms;
  • further believes that co-ordinated national negotiations can also reduce uncertainty, help financial planning and reduce costly and time consuming bureaucracy, local negotiations and disputes; and
  • opposes moves intended to weaken or dismantle efficient and stable arrangements for negotiating and setting public sector pay.

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con247 (+1 tell) 0081.0%
DUP0 3037.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 219 (+2 tell)086.0%
LDem39 (+1 tell) 0070.2%
Respect0 10100.0%
SDLP0 1033.3%
Total:286 226081.4%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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