High Speed Rail (London — West Midlands) Bill — New Clause 20 — Allow Public Sector Operators to Run High Speed 2 Passenger Services — 23 Mar 2016 at 15:00

Kelvin Hopkins MP, Luton North voted to allow, but not require, High Speed 2 passenger services to be run by the public sector operators.

The majority of MPs voted against a proposal to allow, but not require, High Speed 2 passenger services to be run by the public sector operators.

The proposal applied to High Speed 2 passenger services as well as those services running wholly or partly on the route of Phase One of High Speed 2, which are likely to be subject to substantial disruption because of the construction of Phase One of High Speed 2.

MPs were considering the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill[1].

The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: Public Sector Operators and stated:

  • ‘(1) Section 25 of the Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) (public-sector operators not to be franchisees) does not apply in relation to the franchisee in respect of a franchise agreement—
  • (a) which relates wholly or mainly to the provision of one or more Phase One of High Speed 2 passenger services, or
  • (b) which relates wholly or mainly to the provision of one or more other services for the carriage of passengers by railway where—
  • (i) the services run wholly or partly on the route of Phase One of High Speed 2, and
  • (ii) the services are likely to be subject to substantial disruption because of the construction of Phase One of High Speed 2.
  • (2) The following may in particular be taken into account in determining whether, for the purposes of subsection (1)(b), services are likely to be subject to substantial disruption—
  • (a) the frequency with which the services are likely to be disrupted,
  • (b) the duration of the period in which the services are likely to be disrupted (and, in particular, its duration relative to the length of the franchise term),
  • (c) the severity of any likely disruption.
  • (3) In this section—
  • “franchisee”, “franchise agreement” and “franchise term” have the meanings given by section 23 of the Railways Act 1993 (designated passenger services to be provided under franchise agreements).”

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con266 (+2 tell) 0081.2%
DUP3 0037.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 0033.3%
Lab0 173 (+2 tell)075.8%
LDem0 5062.5%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 2066.7%
UKIP1 00100.0%
UUP2 00100.0%
Total:273 184078.1%

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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