Freedom of Information Bill — Time for compliance with request — 4 Apr 2000

Mr Joe Ashton MP, Bassetlaw voted with the majority (No).

The Majority prevented an additional allowance of ten days for compliance with a request being added on top of the 20 working days[1] when it receives information relating to a third party's commercial interests, in order to give time for the third party to make its case that the information should not be disclosed.[2]

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con0 122 (+2 tell)077.5%
Independent0 1033.3%
Lab347 (+2 tell) 0083.9%
LDem0 37080.4%
PC0 2050.0%
SNP0 1016.7%
UUP0 2020.0%
Total:347 165080.0%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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