Opposition Day — Tax Credits — 20 Oct 2015 at 18:52
The majority of MPs voted in favour of an impending reduction in the amount people are paid in tax credits.
The motion rejected by the majority of MPs was:
- That this House
- calls on the Government to reverse its decision to cut tax credits, which is due to come into effect in April 2016.
In a vote on the 15th of September 2015 the majority of MPs had voted for specific proposals to reduce the amounts people are paid in tax credits. See the description of that vote for details.
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.
Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 316 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 96.4% |
DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 75.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 218 (+2 tell) | 0 | 95.2% |
LDem | 0 | 8 | 0 | 100.0% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
SNP | 0 | 54 | 0 | 98.2% |
UKIP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
UUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Total: | 317 | 295 | 0 | 95.7% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by vote
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
Name | Constituency | Party | Vote | |
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