Opposition Day — Funding to Create School Places — 3 Sep 2014 at 18:46

The majority of MPs voted against the principle of prioritising spending money to create new school places where there is greatest need.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • notes that the number of infants taught in classes of over 30 has risen by 200 per cent since 2010, to over 93,000 children;
  • also notes that the Government relaxed the rules on infant class sizes;
  • further notes that the Conservative Party manifesto in 2010 pledged to create small schools with smaller class sizes;
  • believes that the Government’s decision to prioritise capital spending in areas without shortages of places through the free school programme has led to chronic pressures on primary school places and has created classes of more than 70 pupils; and
  • believes that capital spending for school places should be prioritised to areas with the greatest pressures on places.

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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
Con258 (+2 tell) 0185.9%
DUP0 1012.5%
Independent1 0050.0%
Lab0 196 (+2 tell)076.7%
LDem36 0064.3%
PC0 1033.3%
SDLP0 1033.3%
Total:295 199178.7%

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
Jeremy WrightKenilworth and SouthamCon (front bench)both

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