Animal Welfare (Prohibition of Imports) — 8 Jun 1999

I beg to move,

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make it illegal to import into the United Kingdom any meat or food product originating from any country where animal welfare standards are not certified as being equivalent to animal welfare standards in the United Kingdom.

The House divided: Ayes 173, Noes 0.

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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
Con71 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)046.3%
Independent1 0050.0%
Lab73 0017.6%
LDem26 0056.5%
PC1 0025.0%
UUP1 0010.0%
Total:173 0027.7%

Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency

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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NameConstituencyPartyVote
Eric ForthBromley and ChislehurstContellno
John BercowBuckinghamCon (front bench)tellno

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