Serious Crime Bill — Clause 70 — Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders — Threshold — 23 Feb 2015 at 21:00
Hilary Benn MP, Leeds Central voted for a lower threshold at which courts would be able to make female genital mutilation protection orders.
The majority of MPs voted to allow a protection order be made to protect a girl "against the commission of a genital mutilation offence" rather than "against a risk of commission of a genital mutilation offence".
The wording "a risk of" would have provided for a lower threshold at which the courts would have been able to make such an order.
MPs were considering the Serious Crime Bill[2].
The amendment rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
- page 63, line 27, leave out "the" and insert "a risk of"
Clause 70(1) of the Bill[3] to which would have been affected by the amendment stated:
- 70 (1) (1) The court in England and Wales may make an order (an “FGM protection order”) for the purposes of—
- (a) protecting a girl against the commission of a genital mutilation offence, or
- (b) protecting a girl against whom any such offence has been committed.
The impact of the proposed amendment was discussed during the debate[3].
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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.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 244 (+1 tell) | 10 (+2 tell) | 0 | 84.8% |
| DUP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 204 | 0 | 79.1% |
| LDem | 38 (+1 tell) | 2 | 0 | 73.2% |
| PC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SNP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16.7% |
| Total: | 282 | 227 | 0 | 80.2% |
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
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con | tellaye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con | aye |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con | tellaye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con | aye |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem | aye |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem | aye |