Employment Bill — amendment to the second reading motion — 27 Nov 2001 at 21:42

Dame Cheryl Gillan MP, Chesham and Amersham voted in the minority (Teller for the Ayes).

Motion tabled by the Conservative Party as an amendment to the motion that the Bill be gievn a Second Reading.

I beg to move, To leave out from "That" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:

"this House regrets that a wider debate has not taken place on how the benefits and burdens arising from the Employment Bill are shared between individuals and the workplace; declines to give a Second Reading to the Bill because, although it contains welcome measures which promote family friendly practices in the workplace and which seek to improve dispute resolution procedures, it depends excessively on secondary legislation which is likely to impose significant extra burdens on business, especially small businesses; and because it will impose extra costs on business, further damaging British competitiveness at a time when manufacturing industry is already in a fourth successive quarter of recession."

Question put, That the amendment be made:-

The House divided: Ayes 134, Noes 311.

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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 134 (+2 tell)082.9%
DUP3 0060.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Lab284 (+2 tell) 0069.6%
LDem13 0025.0%
PC4 00100.0%
SNP3 0060.0%
UUP3 0050.0%
Total:311 134069.3%

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