Drugs Policy — 13 Jan 2003 at 21:59
Richard Ottaway MP, Croydon South voted in the minority (No).
Question accordingly negatived.
Having changed the motion under debate toThis house recognises that focusing on Class A drugs, educating young people about the dangers of all drugs, preventing drug misuse, combating the dealers, reducing availability and treating addicts are all essential in tackling drugs; and welcomes the Government's updated Drug Strategy and the 44 per cent. increase in planned expenditure on combating drugs, from £1.026 billion in the current financial year to nearly £1.5 billion in the year starting April 2005."
in the previous division, the Aye voters then agreed to it.
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 | 0 | 133 (+2 tell) | 0 | 82.8% |
DUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20.0% |
Independent Conservative | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 328 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 80.5% |
LDem | 39 | 0 | 0 | 73.6% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% |
SNP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20.0% |
UUP | 1 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% |
Total: | 368 | 142 | 0 | 79.4% |
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 |
Sylvia Hermon | North Down | UUP (front bench) | aye |