Extending Free Nursery Places — Breakfast and After-School Clubs to Provide 8am-6pm Childcare — Tax Breaks for Firms Starting to Pay a Living Wage — 19 Nov 2013 at 18:49

The majority of MPs voted against extending free nursery places for 3 and 4 year olds from 15 to 25 hours per week; against introducing a guarantee of 8am-6pm childcare via breakfast and after-school clubs; and against a tax rebate for firms which sign up to pay the living wage.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • believes that the Government is failing to deliver a recovery for women and is making women pay three times more than men to bring down the deficit, according to research by the House of Commons Library;
  • notes that under this Government, women’s unemployment has reached its highest levels for a generation;
  • further notes that wages are stagnating in jobs where women are predominant; and
  • calls on the Government to support more women into decent work by extending free nursery places for 3 and 4 year olds from 15 to 25 hours a week for parents at work, provide a legal guarantee for 8am-6pm breakfast and afterschool club childcare, and bring in Make Work Pay contracts to provide a 12 months tax rebate for firms which sign up to pay the living wage.

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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%
Con240 (+1 tell) 1079.3%
DUP0 80100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 10100.0%
Lab0 212 (+2 tell)082.9%
LDem43 (+1 tell) 0078.6%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
Total:284 229081.2%

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
George OsborneTattonCon (front bench)aye

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