Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 — Increasing HGV Speed Limits — 2 Feb 2015 at 20:04

The majority of MPs voted to increase the maximum speed limit for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) over 7.5 tonnes from 40 to 50 miles per hour on single carriageway roads and from 50 to 60 miles per hour on dual carriageway roads in England and Wales.

The motion approved by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con219 (+2 tell) 0072.9%
DUP0 1012.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Lab0 54 (+2 tell)021.7%
LDem43 1078.6%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 3050.0%
UKIP1 0050.0%
Total:263 62051.5%

Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency

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
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDemno

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