Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Vote: Bills β Social Security (Stopping Benefit Payments for Offenders who Repeatedly Fail to Comply with Community Sentences) Amendment Bill
β Second Reading
π³οΈ That the Social Security (Stopping Benefit Payments for Offenders who Repeatedly Fail To Comply with Community Sentences) Amendment Bill be now read a second time
Moved by
Brett Hudson
(New Zealand National Party β List Member)
MAUREEN PUGH (National): Thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker. Well, weβve heard it all tonight, but a thing that is missing out of all of the debate that Iβve heard here tonight is that we are actually talking about criminals. These are people... Read more β
π Bill failed here β this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
β Failed by a narrow margin
(57 Ayes β 63 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
ποΈ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 1 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 8 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 9 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 46 |
| New Zealand National | 56 | 0 |