European Union Financial Stability — 11 Oct 2011 at 21:58
The majority of MPs voted to note a number of documents related to European financial stability, to welcome steps towards economic recovery in Ireland and Portugal and to welcome the replacement of the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism with a Euro-area only Stability Mechanism.
The motion approved in this vote was:
- That this House
- takes note of European Union Documents No. 9776/11 relating to a Draft Council implementing Decision on granting Union financial assistance to Portugal, No. 9780/2/11, relating to a Council implementing Decision on granting Union financial assistance to Portugal, and No. 9777/11 relating to a draft Council implementing Decision amending implementing Decision 2011/77/EU of 7 December 2010 on granting Union financial assistance to Ireland;
- notes the importance of financial stability in the Euro area for the UK;
- welcomes the recent steps being taken by the governments of Ireland and Portugal to promote growth and return their economies to a sustainable path;
- welcomes the Government’s success in securing agreement that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism will cease to exist once the permanent, Euro area-only, European Stability Mechanism becomes operational in July 2013; and that Article 122(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, the basis for the emergency arrangements, will no longer be needed for such purposes.
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 | 216 (+1 tell) | 13 (+2 tell) | 2 | 76.5% |
| DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| LDem | 46 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 82.5% |
| SDLP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 83.3% |
| Total: | 269 | 20 | 2 | 46.2% |
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 |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | both |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | both |