Supporting Small Business — 19 Oct 2021 at 19:18

The majority of MPs voted lower reducing business rates for certain small businesses.

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

  • That this House
  • recognises the importance of British businesses to high streets and communities across the UK and the exceptional challenges they face due to the pandemic and rising costs;
  • regrets the Government’s current plan to end all temporary support for businesses from April 2022;
  • calls on the Government to support businesses by freezing the business rates multiplier and extending the threshold for small business rates relief from £15,000 rateable value to £25,000 in 2022-23; and
  • further calls on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to update the House in person before January 2022 on his Department’s assessment of the impact that removing the temporary business support will have on small businesses.

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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con295 (+2 tell) 0082.0%
DUP0 3037.5%
Independent0 2040.0%
Lab0 163 (+2 tell)082.9%
LDem0 10083.3%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 20100.0%
SNP0 30066.7%
Total:295 213080.4%

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
no rebellions

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