Hunting Bill — 20 Dec 2000
Aye voters supported the second reading of the Hunting Bill, as proposed by the Government. The Bill was an "options Bill", containing three different options, to allow hunting to continue under self-supervision or under licence or to ban it. MPs would vote between these options at a later date.
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.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 8 | 137 (+2 tell) | 0 | 91.9% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Lab | 343 (+2 tell) | 3 | 0 | 83.7% |
LDem | 22 | 12 | 0 | 72.3% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% |
UUP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22.2% |
Total: | 373 | 158 | 0 | 83.9% |
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
Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con | aye |
Mr David Atkinson | Bournemouth East | Con | aye |
Mr Stephen Day | Cheadle | Con | aye |
Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con | aye |
Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con | aye |
John Randall | Uxbridge | Con | aye |
Mr Teddy Taylor | Rochford and Southend East | Con | aye |
Ann Widdecombe | Maidstone and The Weald | Con | aye |
Mrs Llin Golding | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab | no |
Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab | no |
Mr Peter Temple-Morris | Leominster | whilst Lab | no |
Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem | no |
Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem | no |
Mr John Burnett | Torridge and West Devon | LDem | no |
Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem | no |
Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem | no |
Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem | no |
Mr Archy Kirkwood | Roxburgh and Berwickshire | LDem | no |
Mr Richard Livsey | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem | no |
Michael Moore | Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale | LDem | no |
Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem | no |
Lembit Öpik | Montgomeryshire | LDem | no |
Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem | no |