Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill — 8 Jan 2004 at 17:50

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The Bill covers two distinct subject areas, both of which are of considerable interest to the House, and I shall deal with each in turn. First, it deals with the Government's remaining involvement in the financing and administration of horse racing. Part 1 of the Bill covers the sale and dissolution of the Horserace Totalisator Board, normally known as the Tote. It provides for the vesting of the Tote's assets in a successor company wholly owned by the Crown, and the subsequent sale of that company. The Bill will enable the Government to deliver our manifesto commitment to sell the Tote to a racing trust, and to do so in a way that is fair to racing and to the taxpayer.

Question put, That the Bill be now read a second time:-

The House divided: Ayes 348, Noes 5.

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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
Con75 0046.0%
Independent Conservative1 00100.0%
Lab252 (+2 tell) 0062.3%
LDem19 0035.2%
PC0 2 (+1 tell)075.0%
SNP0 3 (+1 tell)080.0%
Total:347 5056.1%

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