Inquiry into Impact of Welfare Reforms on Incidence of Poverty — 13 Jan 2014 at 21:56

The majority of MPs voted to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate the impact of the Government’s welfare reforms on the incidence of poverty.

MPs were voting on a motion moved by Michael Meacher MP (Oldham West and Royton, Labour)

  • That this House believes that a commission of inquiry should be established to investigate the impact of the Government’s welfare reforms on the incidence of poverty

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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
Con2 111.3%
DUP3 0037.5%
Independent1 0050.0%
Lab107 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)043.2%
LDem7 0012.5%
SDLP2 0066.7%
SNP2 0033.3%
Total:124 1120.4%

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
Jacob Rees-MoggNorth East SomersetCon (front bench)no
David NuttallBury NorthCon (front bench)both
Nicholas DakinScunthorpeLab (minister)tellno
Graham JonesHyndburnLab (minister)tellno

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