Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2012 — Extension of Legal Aid to Certain Welfare Appeals and Certain International Child Benefit Recovery Cases — 5 Dec 2012 at 18:39

The majority of MPs voted to extend legal aid to certain welfare appeals and certain international child benefit recovery cases.

The motion approved in this vote was:

The order extends the provision of legal aid to:

  • advice and assistance for welfare benefit cases in the First-tier Tribunal where the Tribunal has identified an error of law in its own decision.
  • in relation to applications under the Convention on the international recovery of child support and other forms of family maintenance concluded at The Hague on 23 November 2007 (the “2007 Hague Convention”)

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
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con241 0079.0%
DUP6 0075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 205079.5%
LDem40 0070.2%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 30100.0%
Total:288 213078.6%

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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