Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: Blasphemy — 6 May 2008 at 21:45
The majority of MPs accepted a Lords amendment to abolish the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.
Lords Amendment 116 can be found in the List of Lords' Amendments. It modifies the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
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.
| Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 37 | 49 (+2 tell) | 0 | 45.8% |
| DUP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 55.6% |
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 279 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 80.1% |
| LDem | 57 | 0 | 0 | 90.5% |
| PC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16.7% |
| UKIP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 378 | 57 | 0 | 69.6% |
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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