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Information between 25th March 2025 - 4th April 2025

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Division Votes
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 62
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 306
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 296 Noes - 170
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 299 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 302
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 301 Noes - 167
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 300 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 166 Noes - 305
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 298 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 167
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 301 Noes - 104
31 Mar 2025 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 291 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 296 Noes - 164
1 Apr 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 293 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 110 Noes - 302
1 Apr 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 293 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 303 Noes - 110
2 Apr 2025 - Driving Licences: Zero Emission Vehicles - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 101
2 Apr 2025 - Onshore Wind and Solar Generation - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 299 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 307 Noes - 100
2 Apr 2025 - Energy Conservation - View Vote Context Torsten Bell voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 288 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 349 Noes - 14

Speeches
Torsten Bell speeches from: Green Book Review Torsten Bell contributed 2 speeches (1,492 words) Wednesday 2nd April 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Work and Pensions

Torsten Bell mentioned

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister for Pensions, in response to the Chairs letter of 31st January, regarding the non-indexation of pre-1997 rights Work and Pensions Committee Found: Yours sincerely, Torsten Bell MP Minister for Pensions
Wednesday 26th March 2025 Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister for Pensions, relating to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report on 1950s women – options for remedy: Work and Pensions Committee Found: Yours sincerely, Torsten Bell MP Minister for Pensions

Torsten Bell mentioned in Welsh results

Welsh Senedd Debates
2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education None speech (None words) Wednesday 2nd April 2025 - None

Welsh Senedd Speeches
Wed 02 Apr 2025 No Department None 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education <p>Cabinet Secretary, it is evident that Labour politicians both here and at the other end of the M4 seem hell-bent on attacking our private and independent schools. There has been a triple-whammy of higher taxes for them, with the national insurance hike, removing rate relief for charity-run schools, and, of course, adding VAT on to school fees.</p> <p>The decision to impose VAT alone has had a major impact on the sector, with parents pulling students out of school, applications for the upcoming year dropping, teaching staff being axed, and subjects being slashed. Labour’s Treasury Minister, Torsten Bell, has admitted that around 100 private schools will be forced to close because of this tax rate, although the Independent Schools Bursars Association believes that the true number is actually set to be around 300.</p> <p>Let’s go with the Swansea MP’s prediction of 100 schools closing. That would mean around 40,000 students being displaced, and 11,000 jobs lost, according to this analysis. Many of these students will transition to our already overstretched state schools, which I don’t have any problem with. But I’d like to know what assessment has the Welsh Government made of the impact Labour’s VAT hike will have on our already under pressure and underfunded Welsh state schools.</p>

Welsh Senedd Speeches

Wed 02 Apr 2025
No Department
None
2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education

Cabinet Secretary, it is evident that Labour politicians both here and at the other end of the M4 seem hell-bent on attacking our private and independent schools. There has been a triple-whammy of higher taxes for them, with the national insurance hike, removing rate relief for charity-run schools, and, of course, adding VAT on to school fees.
The decision to impose VAT alone has had a major impact on the sector, with parents pulling students out of school, applications for the upcoming year dropping, teaching staff being axed, and subjects being slashed. Labour’s Treasury Minister, Torsten Bell, has admitted that around 100 private schools will be forced to close because of this tax rate, although the Independent Schools Bursars Association believes that the true number is actually set to be around 300.
Let’s go with the Swansea MP’s prediction of 100 schools closing. That would mean around 40,000 students being displaced, and 11,000 jobs lost, according to this analysis. Many of these students will transition to our already overstretched state schools, which I don’t have any problem with. But I’d like to know what assessment has the Welsh Government made of the impact Labour’s VAT hike will have on our already under pressure and underfunded Welsh state schools.