Scotland Bill — New Clause 9 — Devolution of Responsibility for Rail Services to the Scottish Parliament — 15 Mar 2011 at 19:30

The majority of MPs voted against devolving responsibility for railway services which start and finish in Scotland to the Scottish Parliament.

The text of the rejected amendment was:

  • In Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the Act, in section E2, after “Exceptions” there is inserted—
  • “The provision of rail passenger services which start and finish in Scotland, including the power to decide who will run such services, the provisions of the Railways Act 1993 notwithstanding.

This was be linked to a previous amendment[2] which was referring to the The Scotland Act 1998

Debate in Parliament | 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
Con252 (+2 tell) 0083.0%
DUP1 0012.5%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 161 (+2 tell)063.2%
LDem40 0070.2%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 2066.7%
SNP0 60100.0%
Total:293 172073.1%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

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