European Union — Data Protection in the Areas of Police and Criminal Justice (EU Directive) — 24 Apr 2012 at 21:20
The majority of MPs voted in favour of EU data sharing for criminal justice purposes.
The full text of the approved motion was:
- That this House
- takes note of European Union Document No. 5833/12 and Addenda 1 and 2, relating to a Draft Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data; and
- supports the Government’s recommendation not to exercise its right to opt out of this draft Directive under Protocol 19 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (The Schengen Protocol).
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 | 227 (+1 tell) | 14 (+2 tell) | 0 | 79.7% |
| DUP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 62.5% |
| Lab | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1.9% |
| LDem | 39 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 70.2% |
| Total: | 267 | 24 | 0 | 46.9% |
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
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con | tellno |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | no |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con | no |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con | tellno |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con | no |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con | no |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con | no |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con | no |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con | no |