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 constituency
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 |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |