Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill — Decline Second Reading — 20 Sep 2021 at 18:55

The majority of MPs voted to increase state pensions and related benefits by the general level of prices and at least by 2.5% for the 2022-23 tax year.

MPs were considering the Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The motion under consideration was:

That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The Bill^[2]^[3] provides for the basic State Pension, the full rate of the new State Pension, the Standard Minimum Guarantee in Pension Credit and survivors’ benefits in Industrial Death Benefit to be increased by the general level of prices and at least by 2.5% for the 2022-23 tax year.

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

to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:
“this House, while recognising the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic,
declines to give a Second Reading to the Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill because it represents a broken manifesto commitment made by the Government at the last General Election, fails to address the impact of the pandemic on the two million pensioners living in poverty and fails to increase key benefits, such as making permanent the uplift to Universal Credit.”

The Bill's key operative provision amended Section 150A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992^[4]. Prior to the Bill subsection two of that provision stated:

(2)Where it appears to the Secretary of State that the general level of earnings is greater at the end of the period under review than it was at the beginning of that period, he shall lay before Parliament the draft of an order which increases each of the amounts referred to in subsection (1) above by a percentage not less than the percentage by which the general level of earnings is greater at the end of the period than it was at the beginning.

The Bill provided for amending "earnings" to "prices" and introducing a further subclause including:

the Secretary of State must lay before Parliament the draft of an order which increases each of the amounts referred to in subsection (1) above by a percentage not less than 2.5%.

The explanatory notes to the Bill^[3]stated:

An assessment by Department for Work and Pensions analysts suggests that earnings growth will be between 8% and 8.5% for the period May to July which is the reference period used for up-rating. The exceptionally high growth figure is inflated by the negative growth in earnings last year and the unusual employment market flows during the pandemic.

The Bill sought to prevent the state pension increasing in-line with the "exceptionally high" earnings growth figure.

[1] Parliament's webpage on the Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill, Parliament.uk
[2] Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill, as introduced on 21 September 2021, Parliament.uk
[3] Explanatory notes to the Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill, as introduced on 21 September 2021, Parliament.uk
[4] Section 150A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 as of 23 November 2020, Legislation.gov.uk

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Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Neale Hanvey	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	whilst Alba	aye
Nigel Adams	Selby and Ainsty	Con	no
Bim Afolami	Hitchin and Harpenden	Con	no
Adam Afriyie	Windsor	Con	no
Nickie Aiken	Cities of London and Westminster	Con	no
Peter Aldous	Waveney	Con	no
Lucy Allan	Telford	whilst Con	no
Sir David Amess	Southend West	Con	no
Lee Anderson	Ashfield	whilst Con	no
Stuart Anderson	Wolverhampton South West	Con	no
Caroline Ansell	Eastbourne	Con	no
Edward Argar	Charnwood	Con	no
Sarah Atherton	Wrexham	Con	no
Victoria Atkins	Louth and Horncastle	Con	no
Gareth Bacon	Orpington	Con	no
Richard Bacon	South Norfolk	Con	no
Kemi Badenoch	Saffron Walden	Con	no
Shaun Bailey	West Bromwich West	Con	no
Siobhan Baillie	Stroud	Con	no
Duncan Baker	North Norfolk	Con	no
Steven Baker	Wycombe	Con	no
Harriett Baldwin	West Worcestershire	Con	no
Steve Barclay	North East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
John Baron	Basildon and Billericay	Con	no
Simon Baynes	Clwyd South	Con	no
Aaron Bell	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Con	no
Paul Beresford	Mole Valley	Con	no
Crispin Blunt	Reigate	Con	no
Peter Bottomley	Worthing West	Con	no
Ben Bradley	Mansfield	Con	no
Karen Bradley	Staffordshire Moorlands	Con	no
Graham Brady	Altrincham and Sale West	Con	no
Suella Braverman	Fareham	Con	no
Jack Brereton	Stoke-on-Trent South	Con	no
Andrew Bridgen	North West Leicestershire	whilst Con	no
Steve Brine	Winchester	Con	no
Paul Bristow	Peterborough	Con	no
James Brokenshire	Old Bexley and Sidcup	Con	no
Anthony Browne	South Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Fiona Bruce	Congleton	Con	no
Felicity Buchan	Kensington	Con	no
Robert Buckland	South Swindon	Con	no
Alex Burghart	Brentwood and Ongar	Con	no
Conor Burns	Bournemouth West	Con	no
Rob Butler	Aylesbury	Con	no
Alun Cairns	Vale of Glamorgan	Con	no
Andy Carter	Warrington South	Con	no
James Cartlidge	South Suffolk	Con	no
Bill Cash	Stone	Con	no
Miriam Cates	Penistone and Stocksbridge	Con	no
Maria Caulfield	Lewes	Con	no
Alex Chalk	Cheltenham	Con	no
Rehman Chishti	Gillingham and Rainham	Con	no
Christopher Chope	Christchurch	Con	no
Jo Churchill	Bury St Edmunds	Con	no
Greg Clark	Tunbridge Wells	Con	no
Simon Clarke	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Con	no
Theo Clarke	Stafford	Con	no
Brendan Clarke-Smith	Bassetlaw	Con	no
Chris Clarkson	Heywood and Middleton	Con	no
James Cleverly	Braintree	Con	no
Therese Coffey	Suffolk Coastal	Con	no
Elliot Colburn	Carshalton and Wallington	Con	no
Damian Collins	Folkestone and Hythe	Con	no
Alberto Costa	South Leicestershire	Con	no
Robert Courts	Witney	Con	no
Claire Coutinho	East Surrey	Con	no
Stephen Crabb	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Con	no
Virginia Crosbie	Ynys Môn	Con	no
James Daly	Bury North	Con	no
David Davies	Monmouth	Con	no
Gareth Davies	Grantham and Stamford	Con	no
James Davies	Vale of Clwyd	Con	no
Mims Davies	Mid Sussex	Con	no
David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden	Con	no
Dehenna Davison	Bishop Auckland	Con	no
Caroline Dinenage	Gosport	Con	no
Sarah Dines	Derbyshire Dales	Con	no
Jonathan Djanogly	Huntingdon	Con	no
Leo Docherty	Aldershot	Con	no
Michelle Donelan	Chippenham	Con	no
Nadine Dorries	Mid Bedfordshire	Con	no
Steve Double	St Austell and Newquay	Con	no
Jackie Doyle-Price	Thurrock	Con	no
Richard Drax	South Dorset	Con	no
Flick Drummond	Meon Valley	Con	no
James Duddridge	Rochford and Southend East	Con	no
David Duguid	Banff and Buchan	Con	no
Iain Duncan Smith	Chingford and Woodford Green	Con	no
Philip Dunne	Ludlow	Con	no
Mark Eastwood	Dewsbury	Con	no
Ruth Edwards	Rushcliffe	Con	no
Michael Ellis	Northampton North	Con	no
Tobias Ellwood	Bournemouth East	Con	no
Natalie Elphicke	Dover	whilst Con	no
George Eustice	Camborne and Redruth	Con	no
David Evennett	Bexleyheath and Crayford	Con	no
Ben Everitt	Milton Keynes North	Con	no
Laura Farris	Newbury	Con	no
Simon Fell	Barrow and Furness	Con	no
Katherine Fletcher	South Ribble	Con	no
Nicholas Fletcher	Don Valley	Con	no
Vicky Ford	Chelmsford	Con	no
Kevin Foster	Torbay	Con	no
Liam Fox	North Somerset	Con	no
Mark Francois	Rayleigh and Wickford	Con	no
Lucy Frazer	South East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
George Freeman	Mid Norfolk	Con	no
Mike Freer	Finchley and Golders Green	Con	no
Richard Fuller	North East Bedfordshire	Con	no
Marcus Fysh	Yeovil	Con	no
Roger Gale	North Thanet	Con	no
Mark Garnier	Wyre Forest	Con	no
Nusrat Ghani	Wealden	Con	no
Peter Gibson	Darlington	Con	no
Jo Gideon	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Con	no
Michael Gove	Surrey Heath	Con	no
Richard Graham	Gloucester	Con	no
James Gray	North Wiltshire	Con	no
Chris Green	Bolton West	Con	no
Damian Green	Ashford	Con	no
Andrew Griffith	Arundel and South Downs	Con	no
James Grundy	Leigh	Con	no
Jonathan Gullis	Stoke-on-Trent North	Con	no
Robert Halfon	Harlow	Con	no
Luke Hall	Thornbury and Yate	Con	no
Stephen Hammond	Wimbledon	Con	no
Matthew Hancock	West Suffolk	whilst Con	no
Mark Harper	Forest of Dean	Con	no
Rebecca Harris	Castle Point	Con	no
Trudy Harrison	Copeland	Con	no
Sally-Ann Hart	Hastings and Rye	Con	no
Simon Hart	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Con	no
Oliver Heald	North East Hertfordshire	Con	no
Chris Heaton-Harris	Daventry	Con	no
Gordon Henderson	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Con	no
Antony Higginbotham	Burnley	Con	no
Damian Hinds	East Hampshire	Con	no
Richard Holden	North West Durham	Con	no
Kevin Hollinrake	Thirsk and Malton	Con	no
Philip Hollobone	Kettering	Con	no
Adam Holloway	Gravesham	Con	no
Paul Holmes	Eastleigh	Con	no
John Howell	Henley	Con	no
Paul Howell	Sedgefield	Con	no
Nigel Huddleston	Mid Worcestershire	Con	no
Eddie Hughes	Walsall North	Con	no
Jeremy Hunt	South West Surrey	Con	no
Tom Hunt	Ipswich	Con	no
Alister Jack	Dumfries and Galloway	Con	no
Sajid Javid	Bromsgrove	Con	no
Ranil Jayawardena	North East Hampshire	Con	no
Mark Jenkinson	Workington	Con	no
Andrea Jenkyns	Morley and Outwood	Con	no
Robert Jenrick	Newark	Con	no
Dr Caroline Johnson	Sleaford and North Hykeham	Con	no
Gareth Johnson	Dartford	Con	no
David Johnston	Wantage	Con	no
Andrew Jones	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Con	no
David Jones	Clwyd West	Con	no
Marcus Jones	Nuneaton	Con	no
Simon Jupp	East Devon	Con	no
Daniel Kawczynski	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Con	no
Gillian Keegan	Chichester	Con	no
Greg Knight	East Yorkshire	Con	no
Julian Knight	Solihull	whilst Con	no
Kate Kniveton	Burton	Con	no
Danny Kruger	Devizes	Con	no
Kwasi Kwarteng	Spelthorne	Con	no
Robert Largan	High Peak	Con	no
Pauline Latham	Mid Derbyshire	Con	no
Andrea Leadsom	South Northamptonshire	Con	no
Edward Leigh	Gainsborough	Con	no
Andrew Lewer	Northampton South	Con	no
Brandon Lewis	Great Yarmouth	Con	no
Julian Lewis	New Forest East	whilst Con	no
Chris Loder	West Dorset	Con	no
Mark Logan	Bolton North East	Con	no
Marco Longhi	Dudley North	Con	no
Julia Lopez	Hornchurch and Upminster	Con	no
Jack Lopresti	Filton and Bradley Stoke	Con	no
Jonathan Lord	Woking	Con	no
Tim Loughton	East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	no
Craig Mackinlay	South Thanet	Con	no
Cherilyn Mackrory	Truro and Falmouth	Con	no
Rachel Maclean	Redditch	Con	no
Alan Mak	Havant	Con	tellno
Kit Malthouse	North West Hampshire	Con	no
Anthony Mangnall	Totnes	Con	no
Scott Mann	North Cornwall	Con	tellno
Julie Marson	Hertford and Stortford	Con	no
Theresa May	Maidenhead	Con	no
Jerome Mayhew	Broadland	Con	no
Paul Maynard	Blackpool North and Cleveleys	Con	no
Jason McCartney	Colne Valley	Con	no
Karl McCartney	Lincoln	Con	no
Mark Menzies	Fylde	whilst Con	no
Huw Merriman	Bexhill and Battle	Con	no
Stephen Metcalfe	South Basildon and East Thurrock	Con	no
Robin Millar	Aberconwy	Con	no
Amanda Milling	Cannock Chase	Con	no
Nigel Mills	Amber Valley	Con	no
Robbie Moore	Keighley	Con	no
Penny Mordaunt	Portsmouth North	Con	no
Anne Marie Morris	Newton Abbot	Con	no
David Morris	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Con	no
James Morris	Halesowen and Rowley Regis	Con	no
Joy Morrissey	Beaconsfield	Con	no
Jill Mortimer	Hartlepool	Con	no
Wendy Morton	Aldridge-Brownhills	Con	no
Kieran Mullan	Crewe and Nantwich	Con	no
Holly Mumby-Croft	Scunthorpe	Con	no
Sheryll Murray	South East Cornwall	Con	no
Andrew Murrison	South West Wiltshire	Con	no
Bob Neill	Bromley and Chislehurst	Con	no
Lia Nici	Great Grimsby	Con	no
Caroline Nokes	Romsey and Southampton North	Con	no
Neil O'Brien	Harborough	Con	no
Matthew Offord	Hendon	Con	no
Guy Opperman	Hexham	Con	no
Neil Parish	Tiverton and Honiton	Con	no
Owen Paterson	North Shropshire	Con	no
John Penrose	Weston-Super-Mare	Con	no
Chris Philp	Croydon South	Con	no
Christopher Pincher	Tamworth	whilst Con	no
Daniel Poulter	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	whilst Con	no
Rebecca Pow	Taunton Deane	Con	no
Victoria Prentis	Banbury	Con	no
Tom Pursglove	Corby	Con	no
Will Quince	Colchester	Con	no
Dominic Raab	Esher and Walton	Con	no
Tom Randall	Gedling	Con	no
John Redwood	Wokingham	Con	no
Jacob Rees-Mogg	North East Somerset	Con	no
Nicola Richards	West Bromwich East	Con	no
Angela Richardson	Guildford	Con	no
Laurence Robertson	Tewkesbury	Con	no
Mary Robinson	Cheadle	Con	no
Douglas Ross	Moray	Con	no
Lee Rowley	North East Derbyshire	Con	no
Dean Russell	Watford	Con	no
David Rutley	Macclesfield	Con	no
Gary Sambrook	Birmingham, Northfield	Con	no
Selaine Saxby	North Devon	Con	no
Paul Scully	Sutton and Cheam	Con	no
Bob Seely	Isle of Wight	Con	no
Grant Shapps	Welwyn Hatfield	Con	no
Alec Shelbrooke	Elmet and Rothwell	Con	no
David Simmonds	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	Con	no
Chris Skidmore	Kingswood	Con	no
Chloe Smith	Norwich North	Con	no
Greg Smith	Buckingham	Con	no
Julian Smith	Skipton and Ripon	Con	no
Amanda Solloway	Derby North	Con	no
Ben Spencer	Runnymede and Weybridge	Con	no
Mark Spencer	Sherwood	Con	no
Alexander Stafford	Rother Valley	Con	no
Andrew Stephenson	Pendle	Con	no
Jane Stevenson	Wolverhampton North East	Con	no
John Stevenson	Carlisle	Con	no
Gary Streeter	South West Devon	Con	no
Mel Stride	Central Devon	Con	no
Graham Stuart	Beverley and Holderness	Con	no
Julian Sturdy	York Outer	Con	no
James Sunderland	Bracknell	Con	no
Desmond Swayne	New Forest West	Con	no
Robert Syms	Poole	Con	no
Derek Thomas	St Ives	Con	no
Maggie Throup	Erewash	Con	no
Kelly Tolhurst	Rochester and Strood	Con	no
Justin Tomlinson	North Swindon	Con	no
Michael Tomlinson	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Con	no
Craig Tracey	North Warwickshire	Con	no
Anne-Marie Trevelyan	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Con	no
Laura Trott	Sevenoaks	Con	no
Thomas Tugendhat	Tonbridge and Malling	Con	no
Shailesh Vara	North West Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Martin Vickers	Cleethorpes	Con	no
Matt Vickers	Stockton South	Con	no
Theresa Villiers	Chipping Barnet	Con	no
Christian Wakeford	Bury South	whilst Con	no
Charles Walker	Broxbourne	Con	no
Robin Walker	Worcester	Con	no
Jamie Wallis	Bridgend	Con	no
David Warburton	Somerton and Frome	Con	no
Matt Warman	Boston and Skegness	Con	no
Giles Watling	Clacton	Con	no
Suzanne Webb	Stourbridge	Con	no
Helen Whately	Faversham and Mid Kent	Con	no
Heather Wheeler	South Derbyshire	Con	no
Craig Whittaker	Calder Valley	Con	no
John Whittingdale	Maldon	Con	no
Bill Wiggin	North Herefordshire	Con	no
James Wild	North West Norfolk	Con	no
Craig Williams	Montgomeryshire	Con	no
Mike Wood	Dudley South	Con	no
William Wragg	Hazel Grove	Con	no
Jeremy Wright	Kenilworth and Southam	Con	no
Jacob Young	Redcar	Con	no
Nadhim Zahawi	Stratford-on-Avon	Con	no
Jeffrey M. Donaldson	Lagan Valley	DUP	aye
Paul Girvan	South Antrim	DUP	aye
Carla Lockhart	Upper Bann	DUP	aye
Jim Shannon	Strangford	DUP	aye
Sammy Wilson	East Antrim	DUP	aye
Caroline Lucas	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	aye
Jonathan Edwards	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	whilst Independent	aye
Margaret Ferrier	Rutherglen and Hamilton West	whilst Independent	aye
Rob Roberts	Delyn	whilst Independent	no
Alistair Carmichael	Orkney and Shetland	LDem	aye
Wendy Chamberlain	North East Fife	LDem	aye
Daisy Cooper	St Albans	LDem	aye
Edward Davey	Kingston and Surbiton	LDem	aye
Tim Farron	Westmorland and Lonsdale	LDem	aye
Sarah Green	Chesham and Amersham	LDem	aye
Wera Hobhouse	Bath	LDem	aye
Christine Jardine	Edinburgh West	LDem	aye
Layla Moran	Oxford West and Abingdon	LDem	aye
Sarah Olney	Richmond Park	LDem	tellaye
Jamie Stone	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	LDem	aye
Munira Wilson	Twickenham	LDem	aye
Ben Lake	Ceredigion	PC	aye
Liz Saville-Roberts	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	PC	aye
Hywel Williams	Arfon	PC	tellaye
Colum Eastwood	Foyle	SDLP	aye
Mhairi Black	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	SNP	aye
Ian Blackford	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	SNP	aye
Kirsty Blackman	Aberdeen North	SNP	aye
Steven Bonnar	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	SNP	aye
Deidre Brock	Edinburgh North and Leith	SNP	aye
Alan Brown	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	SNP	aye
Lisa Cameron	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow	whilst SNP	aye
Joanna Cherry	Edinburgh South West	SNP	aye
Ronnie Cowan	Inverclyde	SNP	aye
Angela Crawley	Lanark and Hamilton East	SNP	aye
Martyn Day	Linlithgow and East Falkirk	SNP	aye
Martin Docherty	West Dunbartonshire	SNP	aye
Dave Doogan	Angus	SNP	aye
Allan Dorans	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	SNP	aye
Marion Fellows	Motherwell and Wishaw	SNP	aye
Stephen Flynn	Aberdeen South	SNP	aye
Patricia Gibson	North Ayrshire and Arran	SNP	aye
Patrick Grady	Glasgow North	SNP	aye
Stewart Hosie	Dundee East	SNP	aye
Chris Law	Dundee West	SNP	aye
David Linden	Glasgow East	SNP	aye
Stewart McDonald	Glasgow South	SNP	aye
Stuart McDonald	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East	SNP	aye
Anne McLaughlin	Glasgow North East	SNP	aye
Carol Monaghan	Glasgow North West	SNP	aye
Gavin Newlands	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	SNP	aye
John Nicolson	Ochil and South Perthshire	SNP	aye
Brendan O'Hara	Argyll and Bute	SNP	aye
Kirsten Oswald	East Renfrewshire	SNP	aye
Anum Qaisar	Airdrie and Shotts	SNP	aye
Alyn Smith	Stirling	SNP	aye
Chris Stephens	Glasgow South West	SNP	aye
Alison Thewliss	Glasgow Central	SNP	aye
Owen Thompson	Midlothian	SNP	aye
Richard Thomson	Gordon	SNP	aye
Pete Wishart	Perth and North Perthshire	SNP	aye

Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill — Decline Second Reading — 20 Sep 2021 at 18:55

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