International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill — New Clause 7 — Referendum on Development Aid Target — Target only Applying When UK Has Budget Surplus — 5 Dec 2014 at 11:45
The majority of MPs voted against requiring the approval of the majority of voters in a referendum before setting a target of at least 0.7% of national income being spent on international aid. The majority of MPs were also voting against only making the target apply in years where the United Kingdom records a budget surplus.
MPs were considering the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill[1]. The Bill provides for a target of at least 0.7% of national income being spent on international aid and includes arrangements for evaluation of that aid spending.
The proposed new clause rejected in this vote stated:
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(1) This Act shall come into force on such a day appointed by the Secretary of State by an order contained in a statutory instrument.
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(2) An order under subsection (1) shall not be made unless a referendum has taken place in the United Kingdom and more than 50% of those casting a vote do so in favour of meeting the target.
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(3) This Act shall only have effect in those years where the United Kingdom records a budget surplus.
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(4) The Secretary of State may vary the target mentioned in section 1 by an order contained in a statutory instrument in response to the UK leaving or joining a multilateral organisation which itself disburses ODA.
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(5) This Act shall expire on the anniversary of its coming into force in the fifth year of its being so in force.
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Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | no |
Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | no |
Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | no |
John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | no |
John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | no |
Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem | no |
Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | no |
Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con | no |
Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | no |
Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | no |
Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | no |
Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | no |
Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | no |
Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | no |
Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | no |
Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | no |
Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem | no |
Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | no |
Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | no |
Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | no |
Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | no |
Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | no |
Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | no |
William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | no |
John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | no |
Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | no |
Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | no |
Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | no |
Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | no |
Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | no |
Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | no |
Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con | no |
Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | no |
Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | no |
Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | no |
Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | no |
George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | no |
Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | no |
Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | no |
Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | no |
Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | no |
Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | no |
Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | no |
John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | no |
Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | tellno |
David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | no |
Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | no |
Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | no |
Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | no |
Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | no |
Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst Independent | no |
Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | no |
Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | UKIP | aye |
James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | no |
David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con | no |
John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | no |
Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | no |
Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con (front bench) | no |
Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | no |
Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | no |
Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | no |
David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | no |
Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | no |
Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | no |
David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | no |