Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill [Lords] — 20 Mar 2001

Keith Simpson MP, Mid Norfolk voted in the minority (Teller for the Ayes).

Order for Second Reading read.

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

I have never met anyone yet who has not paid lip service to the need for improvements in special educational needs or disability rights. However, sympathy is of little comfort to parents and children, or to adult men and women who have a disability, when discrimination and lack of rights undermine their efforts to achieve equality of opportunity.

I beg to move,

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill [Lords] because it does not explicitly give priority to the special educational needs of the child and contains no mechanism for safeguarding a viable choice for parents between types of school.

Question put, That the amendment be made:--

The House divided: Ayes 130, Noes 332.

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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 125 (+2 tell)079.4%
DUP0 30100.0%
Independent1 0050.0%
Lab304 (+2 tell) 0073.4%
LDem25 0053.2%
PC2 0050.0%
UUP0 2022.2%
Total:332 130072.6%

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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