Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in State Schools — 15 Jul 2015 at 14:46

The majority of MPs voted in favour of introducing a legal requirement for state-funded schools to provide Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE).

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

  • That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to provide that Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) be a statutory requirement for all state-funded schools;
  • for PSHE to include Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and education on ending violence against women and girls;
  • to provide for initial and continuing teacher education and guidance on best practice for delivering and inspecting PSHE and SRE education;

and for connected purposes.

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
Con10 39 (+2 tell)015.5%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green1 00100.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Lab159 (+2 tell) 0069.4%
LDem4 0050.0%
PC3 00100.0%
SDLP2 0066.7%
SNP1 001.8%
UUP2 00100.0%
Total:183 44035.9%

Rebel Voters - sorted by name

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
Crispin BluntReigateCon (front bench)aye
Peter BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)aye
Ben HowlettBathCon (front bench)aye
Jonathan LordWokingConaye
Caroline NokesRomsey and Southampton NorthCon (front bench)aye
Andrew PercyBrigg and GooleCon (front bench)aye
Laurence RobertsonTewkesburyCon (front bench)aye
Graham StuartBeverley and HoldernessConaye
Sarah WollastonTotnesCon (front bench)aye
William WraggHazel GroveConaye

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