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| Welfare bill: These are the 184 Labour MPs who didn’t vote against the Tories' cuts | |
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| Below are the 184 Labour MPs who didn’t vote against the second reading of the Conservatives’ Welfare Reform and Work Bill. | Below are the 184 Labour MPs who didn’t vote against the second reading of the Conservatives’ Welfare Reform and Work Bill. |
| The main changes in the Bill are reducing the household welfare cap from £26,000 to £23,000, abolishing legally binding child poverty targets, cuts to child tax credits, cuts to Employment and Support Allowance, and cuts to housing benefit for young people. | The main changes in the Bill are reducing the household welfare cap from £26,000 to £23,000, abolishing legally binding child poverty targets, cuts to child tax credits, cuts to Employment and Support Allowance, and cuts to housing benefit for young people. |
| Some of the MPs listed below may have been absent from the vote for their own reasons – for instance, Labour MP Alexander Cunningham says he was recovering from knee surgery at the time. Others may be on maternity leave or ill. | |
| Out of the four leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, and Liz Kendall all abstained on the proposals. Jeremy Corbyn voted against. | |
| Labour says it supports the benefit cap and cuts to mortgage support but not disability benefit cuts or the repeal of child poverty targets. Its amendment does not mention tax credit cuts. | Labour says it supports the benefit cap and cuts to mortgage support but not disability benefit cuts or the repeal of child poverty targets. Its amendment does not mention tax credit cuts. |
| Labour’s leadership recommended an abstention against the bill as a whole, though a group of 48 rebel MPs backed an alternative motion that wholly opposed the package. | Labour’s leadership recommended an abstention against the bill as a whole, though a group of 48 rebel MPs backed an alternative motion that wholly opposed the package. |
| Heidi Alexander | Heidi Alexander |
| Rushanara Ali | Rushanara Ali |
| Graham Allen | Graham Allen |
| Jon Ashworth | Jon Ashworth |
| Ian Austin | Ian Austin |
| Adrian Bailey | Adrian Bailey |
| Kevin Barron | Kevin Barron |
| Margaret Beckett | Margaret Beckett |
| Hilary Benn | Hilary Benn |
| Luciana Berger | Luciana Berger |
| Clive Betts | Clive Betts |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | Roberta Blackman-Woods |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Tom Blenkinsop |
| Paul Blomfield | Paul Blomfield |
| Ben Bradshaw | Ben Bradshaw |
| Kevin Brennan | Kevin Brennan |
| Lyn Brown | Lyn Brown |
| Nick Brown | Nick Brown |
| Chris Bryant | Chris Bryant |
| Karen Buck | Karen Buck |
| Richard Burden | Richard Burden |
| Andy Burnham | Andy Burnham |
| Liam Byrne | Liam Byrne |
| Ruth Cadbury | Ruth Cadbury |
| Alan Campbell | Alan Campbell |
| Ronnie Campbell | Ronnie Campbell |
| Sarah Champion | Sarah Champion |
| Jenny Chapman | Jenny Chapman |
| Vernon Coaker | Vernon Coaker |
| Ann Coffey | Ann Coffey |
| Julie Cooper | Julie Cooper |
| Rosie Cooper | Rosie Cooper |
| Yvette Cooper | Yvette Cooper |
| Jo Cox | Jo Cox |
| Neil Coyle | Neil Coyle |
| David Crausby | David Crausby |
| Mary Creagh | Mary Creagh |
| Stella Creasy | Stella Creasy |
| Jon Cruddas | Jon Cruddas |
| John Cryer | John Cryer |
| Judith Cummins | Judith Cummins |
| Alex Cunningham | Alex Cunningham |
| Jim Cunningham | Jim Cunningham |
| Nicholas Dakin | Nicholas Dakin |
| Simon Danczuk | Simon Danczuk |
| Wayne David | Wayne David |
| Gloria De Piero | Gloria De Piero |
| Thangam Debbonaire | Thangam Debbonaire |
| Stephen Doughty | Stephen Doughty |
| Jim Dowd | Jim Dowd |
| Jack Dromey | Jack Dromey |
| Michael Dugher | Michael Dugher |
| Angela Eagle | Angela Eagle |
| Maria Eagle | Maria Eagle |
| Clive Efford | Clive Efford |
| Julie Elliott | Julie Elliott |
| Louise Ellman | Louise Ellman |
| Natascha Engel | Natascha Engel |
| Bill Esterson | Bill Esterson |
| Chris Evans | Chris Evans |
| Paul Farrelly | Paul Farrelly |
| Frank Field | Frank Field |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Rob Flello | Rob Flello |
| Colleen Fletcher | Colleen Fletcher |
| Caroline Flint | Caroline Flint |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Yvonne Fovargue |
| Vicky Foxcroft | Vicky Foxcroft |
| Mike Gapes | Mike Gapes |
| Barry Gardiner | Barry Gardiner |
| Pat Glass | Pat Glass |
| Kate Green | Kate Green |
| Lilian Greenwood | Lilian Greenwood |
| Nia Griffith | Nia Griffith |
| Andrew Gwynne | Andrew Gwynne |
| Fabian Hamilton | Fabian Hamilton |
| David Hanson | David Hanson |
| Harriet Harman | Harriet Harman |
| Harry Harpham | Harry Harpham |
| Helen Hayes | Helen Hayes |
| John Healey | John Healey |
| Mark Hendrick | Mark Hendrick |
| Stephen Hepburn | Stephen Hepburn |
| Meg Hillier | Meg Hillier |
| Margaret Hodge | Margaret Hodge |
| Sharon Hodgson | Sharon Hodgson |
| Kate Hoey | Kate Hoey |
| Kate Hollern | Kate Hollern |
| George Howarth | George Howarth |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Lindsay Hoyle |
| Tristram Hunt | Tristram Hunt |
| Rupa Huq | Rupa Huq |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Huw Irranca-Davies |
| Dan Jarvis | Dan Jarvis |
| Alan Johnson | Alan Johnson |
| Diana R. Johnson | Diana R. Johnson |
| Graham Jones | Graham Jones |
| Kevan Jones | Kevan Jones |
| Susan Elan Jones | Susan Elan Jones |
| Mike Kane | Mike Kane |
| Barbara Keeley | Barbara Keeley |
| Liz Kendall | Liz Kendall |
| Stephen Kinnock | Stephen Kinnock |
| Peter Kyle | Peter Kyle |
| Chris Leslie | Chris Leslie |
| Emma Lewell-Buck | Emma Lewell-Buck |
| Ivan Lewis | Ivan Lewis |
| Ian Lucas | Ian Lucas |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Fiona Mactaggart |
| Justin Madders | Justin Madders |
| Khalid Mahmood | Khalid Mahmood |
| Shabana Mahmood | Shabana Mahmood |
| Seema Malhotra | Seema Malhotra |
| John Mann | John Mann |
| Gordon Marsden | Gordon Marsden |
| Chris Matheson | Chris Matheson |
| Steve McCabe | Steve McCabe |
| Kerry McCarthy | Kerry McCarthy |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Siobhain McDonagh |
| Pat McFadden | Pat McFadden |
| Conor McGinn | Conor McGinn |
| Alison McGovern | Alison McGovern |
| Catherine McKinnell | Catherine McKinnell |
| Alan Meale | Alan Meale |
| Ed Miliband | Ed Miliband |
| Jessica Morden | Jessica Morden |
| Ian Murray | Ian Murray |
| Lisa Nandy | Lisa Nandy |
| Melanie Onn | Melanie Onn |
| Chi Onwurah | Chi Onwurah |
| Albert Owen | Albert Owen |
| Matthew Pennycook | Matthew Pennycook |
| Toby Perkins | Toby Perkins |
| Jess Phillips | Jess Phillips |
| Bridget Phillipson | Bridget Phillipson |
| Steve Pound | Steve Pound |
| Lucy Powell | Lucy Powell |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Yasmin Qureshi |
| Angela Rayner | Angela Rayner |
| Jamie Reed | Jamie Reed |
| Steve Reed | Steve Reed |
| Christina Rees | Christina Rees |
| Rachel Reeves | Rachel Reeves |
| Emma Reynolds | Emma Reynolds |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Jonathan Reynolds |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Geoffrey Robinson |
| Stephen Philip Rotheram | Stephen Philip Rotheram |
| Joan Ryan | Joan Ryan |
| Naseem Shah | Naseem Shah |
| Virendra Sharma | Virendra Sharma |
| Barry Sheerman | Barry Sheerman |
| Gavin Shuker | Gavin Shuker |
| Andrew Slaughter | Andrew Slaughter |
| Ruth Smeeth | Ruth Smeeth |
| Andrew Smith | Andrew Smith |
| Angela Smith | Angela Smith |
| Jeff Smith | Jeff Smith |
| Nick Smith | Nick Smith |
| Owen Smith | Owen Smith |
| Karin Smyth | Karin Smyth |
| John Spellar | John Spellar |
| Keir Starmer | Keir Starmer |
| Wes Streeting | Wes Streeting |
| Gisela Stuart | Gisela Stuart |
| Mark Tami | Mark Tami |
| Gareth Thomas | Gareth Thomas |
| Nick Thomas-Symonds | Nick Thomas-Symonds |
| Emily Thornberry | Emily Thornberry |
| Stephen Timms | Stephen Timms |
| Jon Trickett | Jon Trickett |
| Anna Turley | Anna Turley |
| Karl Turner | Karl Turner |
| Derek Twigg | Derek Twigg |
| Stephen Twigg | Stephen Twigg |
| Chuka Umunna | Chuka Umunna |
| Keith Vaz | Keith Vaz |
| Valerie Vaz | Valerie Vaz |
| Holly Walker-Lynch | Holly Walker-Lynch |
| Tom Watson | Tom Watson |
| Catherine West | Catherine West |
| Alan Whitehead | Alan Whitehead |
| Phil Wilson | Phil Wilson |
| Rosie Winterton | Rosie Winterton |
| John Woodcock | John Woodcock |
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