Border Checks Summer 2011 — Opposition Day Debate — 9 Nov 2011 at 16:29
Nicholas Soames MP, Mid Sussex voted against requiring the immediate publication of information relating to the relaxation of UK border controls in Summer 2011.
The majority of MPs voted against requiring the immediate publication of information relating to the relaxation of UK border controls in Summer 2011.
The text of the rejected motion, put forward by the leader of the Labour opposition, Ed Miliband, read:
- That this House notes with concern the significant reduction in the level of security and border checks at UK ports of entry in the summer of 2011; and calls on the Government to publish immediately all relevant Home Office submissions to Ministers, together with the instructions from Home Office Ministers to the UK Border Agency (UKBA) regarding passport checks in the summer of 2011 and the relevant operational instructions from UKBA executives to staff and all data collected by the UKBA on the level of checks at each port of entry since July 2011.
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 |
Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Con | 256 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 84.0% |
DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 75.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 232 (+2 tell) | 0 | 90.7% |
LDem | 44 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 78.9% |
PC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
SNP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 83.3% |
Total: | 300 | 247 | 0 | 86.1% |
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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