Only one East Lancashire MP voted to block the government’s plan to cut winter fuel payments for some pensioners.

Sir Keir Starmer saw off a backbench rebellion over plans to cut the winter fuel allowance but the Government’s majority fell to 120.

MPs voted 348 to 228 to axe the payment for all but the country’s poorest pensioners, rejecting a Tory bid for the controversial policy to be blocked.

All 10 Independent MPs voted in unison with Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain among those who opposed the government.

Labour's Pendle and Clitheroe MP, Jonathan Hinder, Burnley’s Oliver Ryan and Rossendale and Darwen’s Andy MacNae all voted in line with the government. As did Ribble Valley MP Maya Ellis.

One Labour backbencher, Jon Trickett, supported the Conservative motion, while 53 including seven ministers had no vote recorded.

Hyndburn’s Sarah Smith was among those who had no vote recorded.

Having no vote recorded does not necessarily mean that an MP actively chose to abstain – for example, some may be unable to attend due to other commitments.

As well as the ministers, it is understood some on the list had been ‘slipped’, meaning they were given permission not to attend.

However, 15 of the Labour MPs who signed a motion which called on the government to delay implementing the cut were among those on the list.

Of the seven former Labour backbenchers who lost the whip after defying the Government over the two-child benefit cap earlier this year, five – Apsana Begum, Zarah Sultana, John McDonnell, Ian Byrne and Richard Burgon – voted with the opposition.

Two – Rebecca Long-Bailey and Imran Hussain – abstained, according to the list.