Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Vote: Bills — Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Simon Power
(New Zealand National Party — Member for Rangitīkei)
Hon STEVE CHADWICK (Labour): I rise to take a short call on this bill because we cannot miss an opportunity to attack the Government. It is bringing in a bill that we will support because it is about extending the dates for the legislation that... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims).
✓ Passed by a large majority
(108 Ayes – 14 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.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 5 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 9 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 5 |
| New Zealand Labour | 43 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 58 | 0 |
| Progressive | 1 | 0 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |