Smoking (Restaurants) Bill — 14 Apr 2003 at 17:28

Those voting Aye in the division allowed the introduction of a bill to ban smoking in restaurants.

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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
Con6 25 (+1 tell)019.6%
DUP1 0020.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Independent Conservative0 0 (+1 tell)0100.0%
Lab91 (+2 tell) 8024.6%
LDem11 8035.8%
PC2 0050.0%
UUP3 2083.3%
Total:115 43025.2%

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)aye
Dr Brian MawhinneyNorth West CambridgeshireConaye
Bob SpinkCastle PointConaye
John StanleyTonbridge and MallingCon (front bench)aye
Anthony SteenTotnesConaye
Peter ViggersGosportConaye
Ronnie CampbellBlyth ValleyLabno
John CryerHornchurchLabno
John CummingsEasingtonLabno
Bill EtheringtonSunderland NorthLabno
David HamiltonMidlothianLab (minister)no
Mr Kevin HughesDoncaster NorthLabno
Alan MealeMansfieldLabno
Steve PoundEaling NorthLab (minister)no
Alistair CarmichaelOrkney and ShetlandLDem (front bench)no
Mr Brian CotterWeston-Super-MareLDem (front bench)no
Nick HarveyNorth DevonLDem (front bench)no
Norman LambNorth NorfolkLDem (front bench)no
David LawsYeovilLDem (front bench)no
Mark OatenWinchesterLDemno
Lembit ÖpikMontgomeryshireLDemno
Adrian SandersTorbayLDemno
Mr Roy BeggsEast AntrimUUPno
David BurnsideSouth Antrimwhilst UUPno

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