Opposition Day — Bankers Bonus Tax — Impact of Disability Benefit Changes — 28 Nov 2012 at 18:50

The majority of MPs voted against introducing a bank bonus tax to fund jobs for young people and against an impact assessment of disability benefit changes.

The following motion was rejected in this vote:

  • That this House
  • notes that only just over two in every hundred people referred to the Work Programme in its first year have gone into work;
  • further notes that it has delivered a worse outcome than no programme at all;
  • recognises that long term unemployment is soaring and that the welfare bill is projected to be £20 billion higher than planned;
  • notes with concern that the Government is cutting £14 billion from tax credits and is taking £6.7 billion from disability benefits to pay for this cost of failures; and
  • calls on the Government to implement a bank bonus tax to fund a Real Jobs Guarantee for young people and commission a cumulative impact assessment of disability benefit changes.

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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
Con246 (+1 tell) 0081.0%
DUP0 3037.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 198 (+2 tell)078.4%
LDem37 (+1 tell) 0066.7%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 4066.7%
Total:283 211078.1%

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
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