Canterbury City Council Bill — Clause 2 — Definition of Comunity Support Officer in Canterbury City Council Bill — 31 Jan 2013 at 13:30

The majority of MPs voted to make it clear only Kent community support officers to be empowered to issue Fixed Penalty Notices in relation to street trading offences covered by the Canterbury City Council Bill including those related to the supplying of or offering to supply any service in a street for gain or reward.

MPs were considering the Canterbury City Council Bill[1]. The motion approved in this vote was:

  • That this House agrees with Lords amendment C5

Lords amendment C5[2] (also known as Lords amendment 5; the C refers to Canterbury[3]) stated:

  • Page 2, line 13, leave out “police” and insert “the Kent police force”

This amendment sought to alter clause 2[4] of the Bill, and in particular the definition which stated:

  • community support officer ”means a person designated by the chief officer of police as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) (police powers for police authority employees)

making it:

  • community support officer ”means a person designated by the chief officer of the Kent police force as a community support officer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) (police powers for police authority employees)

The Canterbury City Council Bill contained provisions to extend the definition of street trading used to include the supplying of or offering to supply any service in a street for gain or reward.

Debate in Parliament | Source |

Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to Octopus Energy or tip us via Ko-Fi.

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
Con73 (+2 tell) 2 (+2 tell)025.9%
Lab60 0023.3%
LDem11 0019.3%
PC2 0066.7%
Total:146 2024.4%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Peter BoneWellingboroughCon (front bench)no
Christopher ChopeChristchurchCon (front bench)tellno
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)no
David NuttallBury NorthCon (front bench)tellno

About the Project

The Public Whip is a not-for-profit, open source website created in 2003 by Francis Irving and Julian Todd and now run by Bairwell Ltd.

The Whip on the Web

Help keep PublicWhip alive