Draft Civil Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014 — Residence Test for Legal Aid Eligibility — 9 Jul 2014 at 19:33

The majority of MPs voted to introduce a residence test as an eligibility criteria for civil legal aid; subject to exceptions for refugees and those who have sought asylum.

The motion approved by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

Debate in Parliament | Source |

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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
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con229 1075.4%
DUP7 0087.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Lab0 190073.6%
LDem38 3073.2%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 30100.0%
Total:274 203074.9%

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
David DavisHaltemprice and HowdenConno
Andrew GeorgeSt IvesLDem (front bench)no
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDemno
Sarah TeatherBrent CentralLDem (front bench)no

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