Onshore Wind Turbine Subsidies (Abolition) Bill — 21 Jan 2015 at 13:11

The majority of MPs voted to ban public subsidies for developing onshore wind turbines.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:

  • That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the prohibition of the use of public funds to subsidise the development of onshore wind turbines; and for connected purposes.

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%
Con56 (+2 tell) 2 (+2 tell)020.5%
DUP0 4050.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab1 27010.9%
LDem0 18032.1%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 2033.3%
UKIP2 00100.0%
Total:59 57018.8%

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
Peter BoneWellingboroughCon (front bench)tellno
Chris Heaton-HarrisDaventryCon (front bench)tellno
Matthew OffordHendonCon (front bench)no
Laurence RobertsonTewkesburyCon (front bench)no
Rosie CooperWest LancashireLab (minister)aye

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