Motion to sit in Private — 25 Feb 2005 at 09:33
Eric Forth moved that the House sit in private, to ensure the early defeat of this motion and deny its use to anyone who wanted to disrupt the debate on a subsequent Private Members' Bill.
Specifically, the move was targeted at the Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill which was to be debated first and which would have set up a Commission on the laws on Cannabis.
See division 72 on 2005-10-28 for further details of this tactic
As a House of Commons matter, no whips were applied on this division.
(It's worth looking at the next three divisions that took place on the same day, all on private member's bills. The turnout was extremely low and quorum was nowhere near being achieved on any of them.)
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 (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 8 | 0 (+2 tell) | 0 | 6.2% |
Lab | 5 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 1.7% |
LDem | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.8% |
Total: | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2.9% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by vote
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 |
Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Eric Forth | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | tellaye |