Sentences with phrase «vote on their allowances»

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Brown again reverts to the fact the allowance is based on a Commons vote.

Fifteen Conservatives and eight other MPs, including three from Labour, voted to provide for a personal income tax allowance transfer between married couples during a debate on the report stage of the finance bill last night.

«This comes after the senators from the party voted against the senate moving a motion calling on the presidency to pay the N5, 000 allowance.

So it seems that the Prime Minister has conducted something of a U-turn by rushing to announce a series of interim changes to MP's expenses and allowances, which he wants the Commons to vote on «as early as next week».

«But there will not be a vote to decide on our allowances system because the House has already voted that that will no longer be a matter for us.»

Scores of Conservative MPs expected to support the amendment, which would initially limit the allowance to couples with a child aged under the age of five, when it is voted on early next month, although it is likely to fail because of opposition from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.