Road Safety Bill — New Clause 19 — Amendment of Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 — 8 Mar 2005 at 17:15

'Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 shall be amended by substituting the word "discretionary" for the word "obligatory" in column 6.'. -[Mr. Chope.]

Brought up, and read the First time.

Question put, That the clause be read a Second time:-

The House divided: Ayes 166, Noes 273.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source |

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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
Con0 113 (+2 tell)071.4%
DUP0 5071.4%
Independent1 0033.3%
Lab272 (+2 tell) 0067.2%
LDem0 37067.3%
PC0 3075.0%
SNP0 3060.0%
UUP0 50100.0%
Total:273 166068.4%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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