Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase — COVID-19 — 25 Jan 2021 at 18:49

The majority of MPs voted for providing councils with funding to support their work tackling COVID-19.

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

  • That this House
  • calls on the Prime Minister to drop the Government’s plans to force local councils to increase council tax in the middle of a pandemic by providing councils with funding to meet the Government’s promise to do whatever is necessary to support councils in the fight against covid-19.

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
Con0 000.0%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent3 0075.0%
Lab195 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)099.5%
LDem7 0063.6%
PC3 00100.0%
Total:209 0036.5%

Rebel Voters - sorted by name

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
John SpellarWarleyLab (minister)tellno
Liz TwistBlaydonLab (minister)tellno

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