Defence White Paper — Decline to approve — 28 Feb 2000

Mr Bill Michie MP, Sheffield, Heeley voted in the minority (Aye).

Those voting Aye failed to change the motion for debate from:

This House approves the 1999 Defence White Paper (Cm 4446).

to:

This House declines to approve a defence policy which has been used to make war upon innocent civilians in Iraq and Yugoslavia under NATO command, contrary to the provisions of the United Nations Charter, without any explicit authorisation by the House of Commons elected to exercise democratic control over the Government of the day, which involves the use of cluster bombs, and which is based upon the possession of, and threat to use, nuclear weapons, which have been declared illegal by both the International Court of Justice and a Scottish court.

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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
Con0 000.0%
Independent1 0050.0%
Independent Labour1 00100.0%
Lab309 (+2 tell) 8 (+2 tell)077.0%
LDem29 0063.0%
PC0 2050.0%
SNP0 2033.3%
Total:340 12056.0%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Jeremy CorbynIslington NorthLabtellaye
Mr Tam DalyellLinlithgowLabaye
Kelvin HopkinsLuton NorthLabaye
Mrs Alice MahonHalifaxLabaye
Robert Marshall-AndrewsMedwayLabaye
John Martin McDonnellHayes and HarlingtonLabtellaye
Mr Bill MichieSheffield, HeeleyLabaye
Alan SimpsonNottingham SouthLabaye
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLab (minister)aye
Mr Llew SmithBlaenau GwentLabaye

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