Planning Decisions: Local Involvement — 21 Jun 2021 at 19:19

The majority of MPs voted to protect the right of communities to object to individual planning applications.

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

  • That this House
  • believes planning works best when developers and the local community work together to shape local areas and deliver necessary new homes; and therefore
  • calls on the Government to protect the right of communities to object to individual planning applications.

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
Alba2 00100.0%
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con2 000.5%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent2 0040.0%
Lab192 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)099.0%
LDem12 00100.0%
Total:212 0037.0%

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
Mark TamiAlyn and DeesideLab (minister)tellno
Liz TwistBlaydonLab (minister)tellno

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