Free School Meals During School Holidays — 21 Oct 2020 at 18:50

The majority of MPs voted against directly funding free school meals over the school holidays until Easter 2021.

The motion rejected by a majority of MPs in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • calls on the Government to continue directly funding provision of free school meals over the school holidays until Easter 2021 to prevent over a million children going hungry during this crisis.

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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
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con320 (+2 tell) 5089.8%
DUP0 1012.5%
Independent1 1050.0%
Lab0 193 (+2 tell)097.0%
LDem0 9081.8%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 20100.0%
SNP0 46097.9%
Total:321 261091.4%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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
Caroline AnsellEastbourneCon (front bench)aye
Robert HalfonHarlowCon (front bench)aye
Jason McCartneyColne ValleyConaye
Anne Marie MorrisNewton AbbotCon (front bench)aye
Holly Mumby-CroftScunthorpeConaye

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