Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Vote: Bills — Education (Food in Schools) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Education (Food in Schools) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
David Shearer
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Mount Albert)
DAVID SHEARER (Labour—Mt Albert): First of all, could I just thank the parties that have agreed to support this bill—the Green Party, the New Zealand First Party, the Māori Party, and United Future. Unfortunately, the National Party and the ACT Party... Read more →
🛑 Bill failed here — 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.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(60 Ayes – 60 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 | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party | 14 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 11 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 32 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 59 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |