Constitutional Reform Bill — Clause 37 — Juristiction of the Supreme Court — 1 Feb 2005 at 15:00

Mr Donald Anderson MP, Swansea East voted with the majority (No).

Those who voted Aye wanted to reverse the meaning of Clause 37 of the Constitutional Reform Bill, which says:

(1)The Supreme Court is a superior court of record.
(2) An appeal lies to the Court from any order or judgment of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales in civil proceedings.
(3) An appeal lies to the Court from any order or judgment of a court in Scotland if an appeal lay from that court to the House of Lords at or immediately before the commencement of this section.

The few who voted Aye wanted to change the word "an" in the third paragraph to "no". This would have removed the law in Scotland from the power of the new Supreme Court.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source |

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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
Con111 0068.5%
DUP3 0042.9%
Independent1 0050.0%
Lab264 (+2 tell) 0065.2%
LDem30 0054.5%
PC0 1 (+2 tell)075.0%
SNP0 3060.0%
UUP2 0040.0%
Total:411 4064.7%

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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