Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Vote: Bills — Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central): New Zealand has far too many people in prison. Our incarceration rates are among the worst, and are nearly the highest, in the Western World. Simply building more prisons and locking up more people will not give us... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 53 Noes – 1 Absent)
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.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 5 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 9 |
| Māori Party | 4 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 43 |
| New Zealand National | 58 | 0 |
| Progressive | 0 | 1 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |