Scotland (Self-Determination) — 16 Jan 2024 at 13:11
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Scotland Act 1998 to transfer the power to legislate for a Scottish independence referendum to the Scottish Parliament; to provide that that power may only be exercised where the Scottish public has demonstrated its support for the holding of such a referendum; to provide that no such referendum may be held sooner than seven years after the previous such referendum; and for connected purposes.
“I’m standing up for the right of self-determination. I’m standing up for our territory. I’m standing up for our people. I’m standing up for international law. I’m standing up for all those territories-those small territories and peoples the world over”.
“The principle of self-determination has become a fundamental component of international law and is enshrined in the UN Charter”.
“The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle, which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law”.
“the people of Scotland are distinct within the UK and have a right to self-determination…And as the people of Scotland are a people for the purposes of the right to self-determination…the choice of the means to exercise it is for the people to decide and not for the state.”
“binding under international law on all states”.
“It is agreed that nothing in this report prevents Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose.”
“if I am to suppose a case in which Scotland unanimously, or by a clearly preponderating voice, were to make the demand on the United Parliament to be treated, not only on the same principle, but in the same manner as Ireland, I could not deny the title of Scotland to urge such a claim.”-[Official Report, 9 April 1889 Vol 335 c 101]
“no nation could be held irrevocably in a Union against its will.”
“The Scots, being an historic nation with a proud past...have an undoubted right to national self-determination... Should they determine on independence, no English party or politician would stand in their way, however much we might regret their departure.”
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robin Millar | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Anum Qaisar | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dave Doogan | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Allan Dorans | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Duguid | Banff and Buchan | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephanie Peacock | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Wera Hobhouse | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kim Leadbeater | Batley and Spen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Claire Hanna | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Coyle | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mick Whitley | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Preet Kaur Gill | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paulette Hamilton | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gary Sambrook | Birmingham, Northfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Hollern | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liz Twist | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Dowd | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Imran Hussain | Bradford East | Lab | no |
| Naseem Shah | Bradford West | Lab | no |
| Dawn Butler | Brent Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ruth Cadbury | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Thangam Debbonaire | Bristol West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Smith | Buckingham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Antony Higginbotham | Burnley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christian Wakeford | Bury South | whilst Lab (front bench) | no |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | whilst Independent (front bench) | tellaye |
| Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP | aye |
| Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Mary Robinson | Cheadle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Vicky Ford | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Green | Chesham and Amersham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nickie Aiken | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Samantha Dixon | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mary Foy | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steven Bonnar | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Colleen Fletcher | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Taiwo Owatemi | Coventry North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Zarah Sultana | Coventry South | Lab | no |
| Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rob Roberts | Delyn | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Marco Longhi | Dudley North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Rupa Huq | Ealing Central and Acton | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Murray | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Amy Callaghan | East Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Kenny MacAskill | East Lothian | whilst Alba | aye |
| Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kate Osamor | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Justin Madders | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Feryal Clark | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Abena Oppong-Asare | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | no |
| John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Colum Eastwood | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Randall | Gedling | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne McLaughlin | Glasgow North East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP | aye |
| Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Thomson | Gordon | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Tonia Antoniazzi | Gower | Lab (minister) | no |
| Matthew Pennycook | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | no |
| Holly Lynch | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jill Mortimer | Hartlepool | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sally-Ann Hart | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | no |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Catherine West | Hornsey and Wood Green | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | no |
| Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sam Tarry | Ilford South | Lab | no |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Osborne | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Emma Hardy | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Neale Hanvey | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | whilst Alba | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Crawley | Lanark and Hamilton East | SNP | aye |
| Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Sobel | Leeds North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Grundy | Leigh | Con (front bench) | no |
| Janet Daby | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ellie Reeves | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Kim Johnson | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Carden | Liverpool, Walton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paula Barker | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Byrne | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hannah Bardell | Livingston | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Rachel Hopkins | Luton South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Bradley | Mansfield | Con | no |
| Gerald Jones | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alistair Strathern | Mid Bedfordshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Douglas Ross | Moray | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con | no |
| Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Christina Rees | Neath | whilst Independent (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ruth Jones | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Wendy Chamberlain | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Morgan | North Shropshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | no |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire | Con | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | whilst Reclaim | no |
| Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Norris | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Nicolson | Ochil and South Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Anneliese Dodds | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Luke Pollard | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Davies-Jones | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Apsana Begum | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Matt Rodda | Reading East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sarah Olney | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP | aye |
| Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Shanks | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rebecca Long-Bailey | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Holly Mumby-Croft | Scunthorpe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Keir Mather | Selby and Ainsty | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Olivia Blake | Sheffield, Hallam | Lab (minister) | no |
| Louise Haigh | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tan Dhesi | Slough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sarah Dyke | Somerton and Frome | LDem | no |
| Paul Girvan | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alberto Costa | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| Daisy Cooper | St Albans | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Double | St Austell and Newquay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marie Rimmer | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alyn Smith | Stirling | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Navendu Mishra | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jonathan Gullis | Stoke-on-Trent North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Western | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Foord | Tiverton and Honiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Rosena Allin-Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Thomas-Symonds | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Munira Wilson | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Carla Lockhart | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | no |
| James Davies | Vale of Clwyd | Con (front bench) | no |
| Florence Eshalomi | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Simon Lightwood | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | no |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Nichols | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Matt Western | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Amesbury | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ashley Dalton | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virginia Crosbie | Ynys Môn | Con (front bench) | no |
