division_name: Business of the House &#8212; New Clause 2 &#8212; Independent taxation and family benefits
motion: <p class="" pid="a.60.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.60.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">New clause 2 would force the Treasury to come clean on its plans to withdraw child benefit from families with higher-rate taxpayers from January 2013, which will take &#163;2.5 billion a year from those families from 2014-15 onwards.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.69.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put, </i>That the clause be read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.69.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 218, Noes 302.</p>