Local Government Finance (England) 2019-20 — Level of Revenue Support Grant — 5 Feb 2019 at 19:43

The majority of MPs voted to set the main central government grant to local government for 2018-19 at a level 56% lower than it was set for 2017-18.

The majority of MPs voted to set the "Revenue Support Grant" for local government for the financial year 2019/2020 at £2,283,950,333 (The figure for 2017/2018 was £3,573,308,349[1])

There is a plan for local government to retain all business rates income raised locally by 2020, with redistributions between authorities, as central government grants are phased out.[2]

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

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
Con289 (+2 tell) 1092.1%
DUP9 0090.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 4050.0%
Lab0 223 (+2 tell)087.9%
LDem0 7063.6%
PC0 40100.0%
Total:298 240089.3%

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
Philip DaviesShipleyCon (front bench)no

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