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:

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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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con274 1089.9%
DUP5 0062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 00100.0%
Lab207 14086.0%
LDem32 2059.6%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 5083.3%
Total:520 27085.1%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Zac GoldsmithRichmond ParkCon (front bench)no
Andy BurnhamLeighLab (minister)no
John DenhamSouthampton, ItchenLab (minister)no
Jim DobbinHeywood and MiddletonLabno
Natascha EngelNorth East DerbyshireLab (minister)no
Paul FlynnNewport WestLab (minister)no
David HeyesAshton-under-LyneLab (minister)no
Kelvin HopkinsLuton NorthLab (minister)no
George HowarthKnowsleyLab (minister)no
Alan JohnsonKingston upon Hull West and HessleLab (minister)no
John Martin McDonnellHayes and HarlingtonLabno
Marsha SinghBradford WestLabno
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLabno
Jon TrickettHemsworthLab (minister)no
Dave WattsSt Helens NorthLab (minister)no
Martin HorwoodCheltenhamLDemno
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDem (front bench)no

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