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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Schedule 2 - Use of Independent Schools as Polling Stations
  
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  @MP voted no against requiring independent schools to house polling stations if counting officers wish to use them. 
  @MP voted aye to require independent schools to house polling stations if counting officers wish to use them.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring independent schools to house polling stations if counting officers wished to use them. 
  
  The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill in its original form[1] contained a provision, on page 27[2] stating:
  
  : "The counting officer may use, free of charge, for the purpose of taking the pollâ
  	(a)   a room in a school within paragraph (3);
   	..."
  
  paragraph 3 stated:
  :   (3)  The schools within this paragraph areâ
  	(a)   in England and Walesâ
  	(i)  a school maintained or assisted by a local education authority;
  	(ii)   a school in respect of which grants are made out of moneys provided by Parliament to the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school;
  
  
  The  amendment proposed adding the following to the end:
  
  :'(iii) a school which enjoys charitable status.'.
  
  Labour MP Chris Bryant explained his motivation for moving the amendment, in the debate prior to the vote he said:
  
  :I do not see why state-provided schools should be regularly used and should therefore undergo the upheaval that polling stations cause, but the independent sector which, in the main, enjoys charitable status and is therefore able to have tax benefits, should not be required to provide the same facilities.
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/063/11063.i-ii.html Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as introduced] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/063/11063.27-33.html Section of Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as introduced containing p.27]
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-10-18a.728.0 Chris Bryant MP House of Commons 18th October 2010]
  
  
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