Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Cannot use gametes or pronuclei — rejected — 19 May 2008 at 18:30
The majority of MPs voted against adding a restriction to the granting of licenses[1] that would prevent it from authorising the creation of an embryo using human gametes and animal gametes, or one human pronucleus and one animal pronucleus.[2]
- [1] Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - Human-animal hybrid licenses, Division 191, House of Commons, 19 May 2008
- [2] Mark Simmonds MP, House of Commons, 19 May 2008
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 (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 29 | 115 (+2 tell) | 0 | 76.0% |
| DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Independent | 1 | 3 | 0 | 80.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 222 (+2 tell) | 66 | 0 | 82.6% |
| LDem | 29 | 26 | 0 | 87.3% |
| PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 2 | 3 | 0 | 83.3% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 286 | 223 | 0 | 80.9% |
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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