How your MP voted in Wales on Keir Starmer's cut to winter fuel allowance for pensioners
The Labour administration says it will save about £1.4 billion this year. Ahead of the vote, Cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said the UK Government had "no choice" but to make the change. He rejected suggestions that the Government's decision to strip all but the country's poorest pensioners of the allowance could see some die of cold this winter.
Asked whether ministers accepted this was a possibility, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "No. We are making sure that we can reassure people by saying the state pension is higher than last winter and energy bills are lower than last winter."
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Pressed on why the Government was pursuing the policy, he told Sky News: "We have no choice." The Tories accused Labour of having failed to "properly examine" the implications of the policy. For the latest politics news in Wales sign up to our newsletter here.
"This has been completely rushed. There's no need to do this as quickly as the Government has done, other than for purely political reasons," shadow work and pensions secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Mel Stride told Times Radio.
"And it means that the implications of this, of course, have not been properly examined in the normal way that they would be, and which is why even trade unions such as Unite has described this as picking the pockets of pensioners."
MPs voted on a bid to block the government's cut to winter fuel allowance in the House of Commons today.
23 Labour MPs supported the cut by voting against the amendment
Four Labour MPs did not vote
All four Plaid MPs tried to block the change
Wales' sole Lib Dem MP also tried to block the cut
Opposition MPs have failed to block government plans with 348 MPs backing the government and 228 supporting the opposition motion. Wales has 32 MPs with 27 representing Labour, four for Plaid Cymru and one Lib Dem.
Stephen Kinnock - Labour
Against
Mark Tami - Labour
Against
Claire Hughes - Labour
Against
Nick Smith - Labour
Against
David Chadwick - Liberal Democrat
For
Chris Elmore - Labour
Against
Chris Evans - Labour
Against
Jo Stevens - Labour
Against
Anna McMorrin - Labour
Did not vote (teller)
Stephen Doughty - Labour
Did not vote
Alex Barros-Curtis - Labour
Against
Ann Davies - Plaid Cymru
For
Ben Lake - Plaid Cymru
For
Becky Gittins - Labour
Against
Gill German - Labour
Against
Liz Savile Roberts - Plaid Cymru
For
Tonia Antoniazzi - Labour
Did not vote
Nia Griffith - Labour
Against
Gerald Jones - Labour
Against
Catherine Fookes - Labour
Against
Steve Witherden - Labour
Against
Carolyn Harris - Labour
Against
Jessica Morden - Labour
Against
Ruth Jones - Labour
Against
Henry Tufnell - Labour
Against
Alex Davies-Jones - Labour
Against
Chris Bryant - Labour
Against
Torsten Bell - Labour
Against
Nick Thomas-Symonds: Labour
Did not vote
Kanishka Narayan - Labour
Against
Andrew Ranger - Labour
Against
Llinos Medi - Plaid Cymru
For
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