National Health Service Funding — 22 Nov 2016 at 18:47

Andrew Mitchell MP, Sutton Coldfield voted against addressing the underfunding of the NHS and against guaranteeing sustainable financing of the NHS.

The majority of MPs voted against addressing the underfunding of the NHS and against guaranteeing sustainable financing of the NHS.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • notes with concern that the deficit in the budgets of NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England at the end of the 2015-16 financial year was £2.45 billion;
  • further notes that members of the Health Committee wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer about their concerns that Government assertions on NHS funding were incorrect and risked giving a false impression; and
  • calls on the Government to use the Autumn Statement to address the underfunding of the NHS and guarantee sustainable financing of the NHS

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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con301 (+2 tell) 0092.4%
DUP5 0062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1033.3%
Lab0 199 (+2 tell)086.6%
LDem0 5062.5%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 30100.0%
UUP0 1050.0%
Total:306 213088.9%

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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