Opposition Day — Student Maintenance Grants — 19 Jan 2016 at 16:16

The majority of MPs voted in favour of replacing maintenance grants with loans for lower income students.

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

  • That this House calls upon the Government to abandon its policy on replacing maintenance grants with loans for lower income students.

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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con306 (+2 tell) 1093.6%
DUP0 6075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 30100.0%
Lab0 216 (+2 tell)094.0%
LDem0 80100.0%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 50092.6%
UUP0 20100.0%
Total:306 292093.5%

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
Julian LewisNew Forest EastCon (front bench)aye

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