Charities Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill — Presumption of Charitable Status for Religious Institutions — 19 Dec 2012 at 14:59

Julian Huppert MP, Cambridge did not vote.

The majority of MPs voted to restore a presumption of charitable status for religious institutions.

The motion approved in this vote was:

  • That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Charities Act 2011 to treat all religious institutions as charities; and for connected purposes.

At this stage there was no published Bill. The proposer gave a speech[1] explaining the intent of the proposed Bill and the reason he believed it was required.

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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
Con116 (+2 tell) 1 (+2 tell)039.7%
DUP2 0025.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Lab33 4014.3%
LDem10 2021.1%
PC1 0033.3%
SNP3 0050.0%
Total:166 7027.7%

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
Crispin BluntReigateConno
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)tellno
Mark RecklessRochester and StroodCon (front bench)tellno
Jeremy CorbynIslington NorthLab (minister)no
Bill EstersonSefton CentralLab (minister)no
Kelvin HopkinsLuton NorthLab (minister)no
Glenda JacksonHampstead and KilburnLab (minister)no
Andrew GeorgeSt IvesLDem (front bench)no
Martin HorwoodCheltenhamLDemno

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