Draft Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 — Reduction in Income Rise Disregard — 14 Mar 2016 at 21:00

The majority of MPs voted to reduce the amount by which a Tax Credit claimant’s income can increase in-year without their entitlement being reduced from an increase of £5000 to £2500.

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

The regulations reduce the income rise disregard from £5,000 to £2,500. This is the amount by which a Tax Credit claimant’s income can increase in-year compared to their previous year’s income before their award is adjusted.

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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
Con272 (+2 tell) 0083.0%
DUP0 3037.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1033.3%
Lab0 173 (+2 tell)075.8%
LDem0 1012.5%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 44081.5%
Total:272 228078.6%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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