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We took evidence in Committee, and I asked about what would happen to the kids of drug addicts if the parents' benefits were cut. One charity that supported conditionality could not answer that question. In Committee, the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform said that the ideas about what would happen were fatuous and vacuous. He has been using such words quite a lot recently, and his resort...
17 March 2009
#12834
243
Ayes
95
Noes
148
Majority
PASS
Result
Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAB Labour | 201 | 0 | 0 | 201 |
| CON Conservative | 1 | 46 | 0 | 47 |
| UNK Unknown | 13 | 11 | 0 | 24 |
| LD Liberal Democrat | 1 | 19 | 0 | 20 |
| IND Independent | 10 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| THE The Independent Group for Change | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| SCO Scottish National Party | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| DUP Democratic Unionist Party | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| PC Plaid Cymru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| SPE Speaker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |