The majority of MPs voted to express a belief that Scotland is better off as part of the UK and the rest of the UK is better off together with Scotland.
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That this House
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believes that Scotland has always made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the UK over the 305 years of the Union;
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notes the strong and enduring bonds that exist between Scotland and the other nations of the UK;
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further notes its shared history and the contribution that the Scottish people have made to public life in the UK in politics, academia, trade unions and the armed forces;
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notes the contribution that Scotland’s businesses make to the UK economy and their particular expertise in cutting edge industries such as life sciences and engineering;
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further notes that a referendum on separating Scotland from the rest of the UK will be held before the end of 2014; and
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believes that Scotland is better off as part of the UK and the rest of the UK is better off together with Scotland.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | aye |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | aye |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | aye |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | aye |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | aye |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | aye |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con | aye |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con | aye |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | aye |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con | aye |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con | aye |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con | aye |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con | aye |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con | aye |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | aye |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con | aye |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con | aye |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con | aye |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | aye |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con | aye |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | aye |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | aye |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con | aye |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | aye |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con | aye |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | aye |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | aye |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con | aye |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con | aye |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | aye |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | aye |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab | aye |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | aye |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | aye |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | aye |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | aye |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab | tellaye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | aye |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab | aye |
| Andy Sawford | Corby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem | aye |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | tellno |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | tellno |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
