7 February 2022 · Welfare, Health & Benefits
How MPs voted: draft Social Security Up-rating Order 2022
Increase in social security benefits
Voting Aye meant: Supported benefit rate increase
298voted Aye
29voted No
Passed
by 269 votes
By party
MPs who sit now. The totals above are the official count.
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 72 | 0 |
| Labour | 0 | 10 |
| Reform UK | 5 | 0 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 0 | 4 |
| Social Democratic & Labour Party | 0 | 2 |
| Your Party | 0 | 1 |
How each MP voted
94 of 327 recorded votes were cast by MPs who still sit, listed here. MPs who did not vote are not shown: an absence can mean a pair, ministerial duty, illness or a deliberate abstention, and the data cannot tell those apart.
Aye (77)
- Alan Mak — Conservative, Havant
- Alberto Costa — Conservative, South Leicestershire
- Alex Burghart — Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar
- Alicia Kearns — Conservative, Rutland and Stamford
- Andrew Bowie — Conservative, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- Andrew Griffith — Conservative, Arundel and South Downs
- Bob Blackman — Conservative, Harrow East
- Caroline Nokes — Conservative, Romsey and Southampton North
- Chris Philp — Conservative, Croydon South
- Claire Coutinho — Conservative, East Surrey
- Dame Harriett Baldwin — Conservative, West Worcestershire
- Dame Karen Bradley — Conservative, Staffordshire Moorlands
- Damian Hinds — Conservative, East Hampshire
- David Mundell — Conservative, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- David Simmonds — Conservative, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
- Dr Andrew Murrison — Conservative, South West Wiltshire
- Dr Ben Spencer — Conservative, Runnymede and Weybridge
- Dr Caroline Johnson — Conservative, Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Dr Kieran Mullan — Conservative, Bexhill and Battle
- Dr Luke Evans — Conservative, Hinckley and Bosworth
- Dr Neil Hudson — Conservative, Epping Forest
- Edward Argar — Conservative, Melton and Syston
- Esther McVey — Conservative, Tatton
- Gareth Bacon — Conservative, Orpington
- Gareth Davies — Conservative, Grantham and Bourne
- Graham Stuart — Conservative, Beverley and Holderness
- Greg Smith — Conservative, Mid Buckinghamshire
- Helen Grant — Conservative, Maidstone and Malling
- Helen Whately — Conservative, Faversham and Mid Kent
- James Cartlidge — Conservative, South Suffolk
- James Wild — Conservative, North West Norfolk
- Jerome Mayhew — Conservative, Broadland and Fakenham
- John Glen — Conservative, Salisbury
- John Lamont — Conservative, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
- Joy Morrissey — Conservative, Beaconsfield
- Julia Lopez — Conservative, Hornchurch and Upminster
- Kevin Hollinrake — Conservative, Thirsk and Malton
- Kit Malthouse — Conservative, North West Hampshire
- Martin Vickers — Conservative, Brigg and Immingham
- Matt Vickers — Conservative, Stockton West
- Mike Wood — Conservative, Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Mims Davies — Conservative, East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Mr Gagan Mohindra — Conservative, South West Hertfordshire
- Mr Louie French — Conservative, Old Bexley and Sidcup
- Mr Mark Francois — Conservative, Rayleigh and Wickford
- Mr Richard Holden — Conservative, Basildon and Billericay
- Neil O'Brien — Conservative, Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Nigel Huddleston — Conservative, Droitwich and Evesham
- Rebecca Harris — Conservative, Castle Point
- Richard Fuller — Conservative, North Bedfordshire
- Robbie Moore — Conservative, Keighley and Ilkley
- Saqib Bhatti — Conservative, Meriden and Solihull East
- Simon Hoare — Conservative, North Dorset
- Sir Alec Shelbrooke — Conservative, Wetherby and Easingwold
- Sir Andrew Mitchell — Conservative, Sutton Coldfield
- Sir Bernard Jenkin — Conservative, Harwich and North Essex
- Sir Desmond Swayne — Conservative, New Forest West
- Sir Edward Leigh — Conservative, Gainsborough
- Sir Gavin Williamson — Conservative, Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown — Conservative, North Cotswolds
- Sir Jeremy Hunt — Conservative, Godalming and Ash
- Sir John Whittingdale — Conservative, Maldon
- Sir Julian Lewis — Conservative, New Forest East
- Sir Julian Smith — Conservative, Skipton and Ripon
- Sir Mel Stride — Conservative, Central Devon
- Sir Oliver Dowden — Conservative, Hertsmere
- Sir Roger Gale — Conservative, Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Stuart Anderson — Conservative, South Shropshire
- Stuart Andrew — Conservative, Daventry
- Tom Tugendhat — Conservative, Tonbridge
- Victoria Atkins — Conservative, Louth and Horncastle
- Wendy Morton — Conservative, Aldridge-Brownhills
- Andrew Rosindell — Reform UK, Romford
- Danny Kruger — Reform UK, East Wiltshire
- Lee Anderson — Reform UK, Ashfield
- Robert Jenrick — Reform UK, Newark
- Suella Braverman — Reform UK, Fareham and Waterlooville
No (17)
- Gavin Robinson — Democratic Unionist Party, Belfast East
- Jim Shannon — Democratic Unionist Party, Strangford
- Mr Gregory Campbell — Democratic Unionist Party, East Londonderry
- Sammy Wilson — Democratic Unionist Party, East Antrim
- Apsana Begum — Labour, Poplar and Limehouse
- Cat Smith — Labour, Lancaster and Wyre
- Dan Carden — Labour, Liverpool Walton
- Grahame Morris — Labour, Easington
- Ian Byrne — Labour, Liverpool West Derby
- Ian Lavery — Labour, Blyth and Ashington
- John McDonnell — Labour, Hayes and Harlington
- Nadia Whittome — Labour, Nottingham East
- Rebecca Long Bailey — Labour, Salford
- Richard Burgon — Labour, Leeds East
- Claire Hanna — Social Democratic & Labour Party, Belfast South and Mid Down
- Colum Eastwood — Social Democratic & Labour Party, Foyle
- Zarah Sultana — Your Party, Coventry South
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Source: division 185 on votes.parliament.uk ↗. The plain-English summary is ours.