Budget Resolution 79 — Powers for Treasury to Maintain Tax System on UK Withdrawal from the EU — 1 Nov 2018 at 16:48

The majority of MPs voted in favour of giving wide-ranging powers to the Treasury to maintain the effectiveness of the tax system on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

The budget resolution supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

  • That—
  • (1) Provision may be made conferring on the Treasury a power, exercisable at all times after Royal Assent, to make—
  • (a) provision for the purpose of maintaining the effect of any relevant tax legislation on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (and, accordingly, on the United Kingdom ceasing to be an EEA state),
  • (b) provision for the purposes of any relevant tax, in connection with any provision made by regulations under section 8 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,
  • (c) provision in connection with any reference in relevant tax legislation to euros,
  • (d) provision amending paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1997 for the purposes of removing the reference to EU legislation, and
  • (e) (notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the practice of the House relating to the matters that may be included in Finance Bills) provision amending section 173 of the Finance Act 2006 to permit the disclosure of information to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by other public authorities and by the Commissioners to persons outside the United Kingdom.
  • (2) In this Resolution—
  • (a) “relevant tax” means any tax (including stamp duty) except value added tax, any duty of customs, or any excise duty under the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979, the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 or the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979, and
  • (b) “relevant tax legislation” means any enactment relating to a relevant tax.

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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
Con302 (+2 tell) 0096.2%
DUP9 0090.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 5085.7%
Lab0 240 (+2 tell)094.2%
LDem0 11091.7%
PC0 40100.0%
SNP0 34097.1%
Total:312 295095.2%

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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