Trade Union Bill — Publication Requirements — Public Sector Union Officials — 27 Apr 2016 at 16:35

The majority of MPs voted in favour of requiring the publication of information on public sector union officials.

MPs were considering the Trade Union Bill[1].

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

  • That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 17

Amendment 17[2] stated:

  • Leave out Clause 13

Clause 13 of the Bill[3] was titled Publication requirements and enables a Minister to require public bodies to publish:

  • (a) how many of an employer’s employees are relevant union officials, or relevant union officials within specified categories;
  • (b) the total amount spent by an employer in a specified period on paying relevant union officials for facility time, or for specified categories of facility time;
  • (c) the percentage of an employer’s total pay bill for a specified period spent on paying relevant union officials for facility time, or for specified categories of facility time;
  • (d) the percentage of the aggregate amount of facility time taken by an employer’s relevant union officials in a specified period that was attributable to specified categories of duties or activities;
  • (e) information relating to facilities provided by an employer for use by relevant union officials in connection with facility time.

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Debate in Parliament |

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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
Con305 (+2 tell) 0093.0%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 30100.0%
Lab0 196 (+2 tell)086.1%
LDem0 6075.0%
PC0 1033.3%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 52096.3%
UKIP1 00100.0%
UUP0 0150.0%
Total:306 267189.9%

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
no rebellions

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