Lord Chancellor's Department — 28 Jan 2003 at 20:14

John Battle MP, Leeds West voted with the majority (No).

I beg to move,

That Mr A. J. Beith, Peter Bottomley, Mr James Clappison, Ross Cranston, Mrs Ann Cryer, Mr Jim Cunningham, Mr Hilton Dawson, Mr Mark Field, Mr Clive Soley, Keith Vaz and Dr Alan Whitehead be members of the Committee on the Lord Chancellor's Department.

I beg to move, To leave out "Mr. A. J. Beith" and insert "Lady Hermon".

I begin by assuring the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) that there is nothing personal in this. Our amendment is purely political, moved in order to address the continuing exclusion of the minority parties from the vast majority of Select Committees.

Question put, That the amendment be made:-

The House divided: Ayes 62, Noes 233.

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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
Con2 52033.1%
DUP0 2040.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Lab210 (+2 tell) 1052.0%
LDem22 0041.5%
PC0 2 (+1 tell)075.0%
SNP0 4 (+1 tell)0100.0%
UUP0 1016.7%
Total:235 62046.5%

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
Peter BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)no
George YoungNorth West HampshireCon (front bench)no
Andrew MacKinlayThurrockLabaye

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