Housing Benefit — Penalty for Excess Bedrooms — Removal of Unintended Exemption — 26 Feb 2014 at 15:16

The majority of MPs voted to remove an exemption from housing benefit penalties due to being deemed to have excess bedrooms which applied to those who've continuously received the benefit in the same property since before 1 January 1996.

When the law on the housing benefit penalties for those with excess bedrooms[1] came in the intent was not, according to the explanatory memorandum to the regulations, for the exemption to exist[2]. The exemption existed as a result of transitional protections introduced when previous changes to housing benefit took place in 1996.

The text of the rejected motion was

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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
Con268 (+1 tell) 0088.2%
DUP0 7087.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Lab0 232 (+2 tell)090.7%
LDem36 (+1 tell) 0066.1%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:304 253087.4%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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