Encouragement of Occupational Pensions

Policy description

A vote to encourage occupational pensions is a vote to promote workplace pension schemes for example by making them tax efficient and easy for employers to run and for employees to understand.

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Analysis for Kerry McCarthy

Kerry McCarthy generally voted against (33% aligned) encouraging occupational pensions.

Comparable Labour MPs generally voted against (28% aligned).

Scoring Divisions

Scoring divisions are used to calculate the headline alignment between a person and a policy.

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Guide to columns

  • person vote: the vote cast by the person

  • party alignment: how aligned this vote was with other members of the person’s party. Higher numbers indicate less difference from the average vote of the party.

  • policy direction: if an aye vote is aligned or against the overall policy.

  • policy alignment: if this MP’s vote was aligned with the policy.

motion date person vote party alignment policy direction policy aligned
Delegated Legislation — Pensions — Automatic Enrolment Regulations 2010-03-08 aye 100% agree aligned
Emergency Budget — Pensions 2010-06-28 no 100% agree not aligned
Pensions Bill — Third Reading 2011-10-18 no 100% agree not aligned

Informative Divisions

Informative votes are thematically related to a policy, but do not count towards the overall score.

motion date person vote party alignment policy direction policy aligned
Pensions Bill 2010/11 — Second Reading 2011-06-20 no 100% agree not aligned