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Adoption and Children Bill — Suitability Of Adopters — 4 Nov 2002 at 20:15

Whilst in the commons for the first time, the Adoption and Children bill was amended to allow unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to adopt children. However, when the bill went to the Lords, they rejected the amendement and reinstated the original "married couples only" rule. Back in the commons, the aye voters in this division sought to reject the modification in the Lords and allow umarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to adopt.

The House divided: Ayes 344, Noes 145.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source | Edit (learn more) | Discussion (last edited 2 Oct 2005 by francis)

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.

Party	Majority (Aye)	Minority (No)	Both	Turnout
Con	8	118 (+2 tell)	0	78.5%
DUP	0	4	0	80.0%
Ind	0	1	0	100.0%
Ind Con	0	1	0	100.0%
Lab	288 (+2 tell)	19	0	75.4%
LDem	44	0	0	83.0%
PC	2	0	0	50.0%
SNP	2	0	0	40.0%
UUP	0	2	0	33.3%
Total:	344	145	0	76.1%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Mr John Bercow	Buckingham	Con	aye
Mr Kenneth Clarke	Rushcliffe	Con	aye
Mr David Curry	Skipton & Ripon	Con	aye
Miss Julie Kirkbride	Bromsgrove	Con	aye
Mr Andrew Lansley	South Cambridgeshire	Con	aye
Mr Andrew MacKay	Bracknell	Con	aye
Mr Francis Maude	Horsham	Con	aye
Mr Michael Portillo	Kensington & Chelsea	Con	aye
Mr Donald Anderson	Swansea East	Lab	no
Mr Joe Benton	Bootle	Lab	no
Mr Tony Colman	Putney	Lab	no
Mr David Crausby	Bolton North East	Lab	no
Mr Tony Cunningham	Workington	Lab	no
Mr Denzil Davies	Llanelli	Lab	no
Mr Jim Dobbin	Heywood & Middleton	Lab	no
Mr David Drew	Stroud	Lab	no
Mr Stephen Hepburn	Jarrow	Lab	no
Mr Alan Hurst	Braintree	Lab	no
Mr Peter Kilfoyle	Liverpool, Walton	Lab	no
Mr Calum MacDonald	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Lab	no
Mr David Marshall	Glasgow, Shettleston	Lab	no
Mr Bill O'Brien	Normanton	Lab	no
Mr Kerry Pollard	St Albans	Lab	no
Mr Frank Roy	Motherwell & Wishaw	Lab	no
Mr Gerry Steinberg	Durham, City of	Lab	no
Mr Dave Watts	St Helens North	Lab	no
Mr Jimmy Wray	Glasgow, Baillieston	Lab	no