Deferred Division — Sexual Orientation Discrimination — 25 Jun 2003 at 19:37

That the draft Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003, which were laid before this House on 8th May, be approved.

The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments has drawn the instrument to the special attention of the House in its Twenty-first Report, HC 96-xxi.

The House divided: Ayes 267, Noes 54.

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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
Con24 11021.5%
DUP4 0080.0%
Independent Ulster Unionist2 10100.0%
Lab233 0057.0%
LDem0 35066.0%
PC0 40100.0%
SDLP1 0033.3%
SNP0 3060.0%
UUP3 00100.0%
Total:267 54049.5%

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
Julian BrazierCanterburyCon (front bench)no
Patrick CormackSouth StaffordshireCon (front bench)no
Jonathan DjanoglyHuntingdonCon (front bench)no
Michael FallonSevenoaksCon (front bench)no
Mark FieldCities of London and WestminsterCon (front bench)no
Mr Nick HawkinsSurrey HeathConno
Greg KnightEast YorkshireCon (front bench)no
Richard OttawayCroydon SouthCon (front bench)no
Laurence RobertsonTewkesburyCon (front bench)no
Mr John TaylorSolihullConno
John WhittingdaleMaldon and East ChelmsfordCon (front bench)no

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