Draft Justification Decision (Generation of Electricity by the EPR Nuclear Reactor) Regulations 2010 — 24 Nov 2010 at 21:08
The majority of MPs voted to permit a new type of nuclear energy generation technology, agreeing its use is justified given the balance of benefits verses detriments.
The technology in question generates electricity from nuclear energy using oxide fuel of low enrichment in fissile content in a light water cooled, light water moderated thermal reactor known as EPR.
EPR is an abbreviation for European Pressurized Reactor
The motion approved in this vote was:
- That the draft Justification Decision (Generation of Electricity by the EPR Nuclear Reactor) Regulations 2010, which were laid before this House on 18 October, be approved.
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 |
| Alliance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 274 | 1 | 0 | 89.9% |
| DUP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 62.5% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 207 | 14 | 0 | 86.0% |
| LDem | 32 | 2 | 0 | 59.6% |
| PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SDLP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
| SNP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 83.3% |
| Total: | 520 | 27 | 0 | 85.1% |
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
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | no |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | no |
| Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |