Lisbon Treaty — Approves of the government's policy towards the Lisbon Treaty in relation to energy — 30 Jan 2008 at 17:10

David Cameron MP, Witney voted in the minority (No).

The Aye-voters successfully approved[1] the Government's policy towards the Treaty of Lisbon in respect of the Treaty's provisions concerning energy.

This was thus a further step along the road of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty and promoting closer European integration.

The main aims of the Lisbon Treaty were to[2]:

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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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con2 160 (+2 tell)085.0%
DUP0 5055.6%
Independent2 1060.0%
Independent Labour1 00100.0%
Lab301 (+2 tell) 2086.6%
LDem52 0082.5%
PC3 00100.0%
SDLP1 0033.3%
SNP5 0083.3%
UUP0 10100.0%
Total:367 169084.9%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Kenneth ClarkeRushcliffeCon (front bench)aye
Ian TaylorEsher and WaltonConaye
David DrewStroudLab (minister)no
Austin MitchellGreat GrimsbyLab (minister)no

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