Animal Welfare Bill — New Clause "8" — Docking of dogs' tails — Working dogs — 14 Mar 2006 at 19:27
Those voting No rejected a change to the new clause that had just been added into the Animal Welfare Bill by Division 187.
The change would have removed the exception to the ban on the docking of dogs' for working dogs by deleting the subsections (3) to (6) which defined what a working dog was. Had this change been accepted (by there being more Aye voters than No voters), the removal of a dog's tail would only be lawful for the purposes of medical treatment.
The amendment was supported by a wide coalition of animal welfare groups, including the RSPCA, but was opposed by shooting interests such as the Countryside Alliance and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation.
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Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
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aye and no in the same division. The boths
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What is Turnout? This is measured against
the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 162 (+2 tell) | 7 | 0 | 87.2% |
| DUP | 7 | 0 | 0 | 77.8% |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Lab | 71 | 234 (+2 tell) | 0 | 87.0% |
| LDem | 32 | 26 | 0 | 92.1% |
| PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SNP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33.3% |
| UUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 278 | 267 | 0 | 86.7% |
MPs
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Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| John Reid | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hutton | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siôn Simon | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | Lab | no |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ruth Kelly | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Butterfill | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gwyneth Dunwoody | Crewe and Nantwich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem | aye |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adam Ingram | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patricia Hewitt | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem | aye |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Widdecombe | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hilary Armstrong | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Horam | Orpington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hazel Blears | Salford | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Knight | South Dorset | Lab (minister) | no |
| Colin Breed | South East Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab | no |
| Bruce George | Walsall South | Lab | no |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab | no |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab | no |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
