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