National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill — Commons Amendments — Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) — 24 Mar 2025 at 16:15
Moved by Lord Scriven
1B: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause-“Exemptions from the changes made by section 1: NHS and social care(1) The Treasury may by regulations made by statutory instrument specify that certain categories of persons are exempted from the changes to the rate of secondary Class 1 contributions made by section 1 of this Act. (2) The categories of persons any of whom may be specified under subsection (1) are-(a) a person providing a care home service or a domiciliary support service who is regulated under-(i) Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, or(ii) Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;(b) a person providing a service who is regulated under section 47(1)(a) or (b) of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010;(c) a person providing a care home service or domiciliary support service regulated under the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;(d) a person contracted to provide primary care under the provisions of-(i) Part 4 of the National Health Service Act 2006,(ii) Part 4 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or(iii) sections 17J to 17O of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;(e) a person providing primary medical services through contractual arrangements with a Health and Social Services Board;(f) a person contracted to provide general dental services under the provisions of Part 2 of the National Health Service (General Dental Services) Regulations 1992;(g) a person providing general dental services under Part 2 of the General Dental Services (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1993;(h) a person contracted to provide pharmacy services under the provisions of-(i) Part 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006, or(ii) Part 8 of the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013;(i) a person providing pharmaceutical services under Part 2 of the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997;(j) a charitable provider of health and care;(k) a provider of health and care registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland;(l) a person providing hospice care whether in a hospice or elsewhere; (m) a carer to whom section 2(3A) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 applies.(3) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.””
Ayes 271, Noes 173.
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 is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 1 | 0 | 4.0% |
| Con | 165 | 0 | 55.6% |
| Crossbench | 29 | 11 | 23.5% |
| DUP | 3 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Green | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 0 | 2 | 22.2% |
| Lab | 0 | 121 (+2 tell) | 68.0% |
| LDem | 52 (+2 tell) | 0 | 66.7% |
| Non-affiliated | 7 | 7 | 28.0% |
| PC | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| UUP | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Total: | 262 | 142 | 49.3% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
Lords 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 lord who could have voted in this division
| Name | Party | Vote |
| Lord Aberdare | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Craig of Radley | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Hogan-Howe | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Kakkar | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Pannick | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Russell of Liverpool | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Stirrup | Crossbench (front bench) | no |