Equality (Marriage) (Amendment) Bill — Protection In Respect of Beliefs About Definition of Marriage — 29 Jan 2013 at 13:43
The majority of MPs voted to give people protection from being discriminated against due to their beliefs about the definition of marriage.
The motion voted on was:
- That leave be given to bring in a Bill[1] to amend the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 to include a person’s conscientious beliefs about the definition of marriage; and for connected purposes.
The Bill did not become law as it failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session.
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 | 64 (+2 tell) | 13 (+2 tell) | 0 | 26.6% |
| DUP | 6 | 0 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 8 | 6 | 0 | 5.4% |
| LDem | 7 | 11 | 0 | 31.6% |
| Total: | 86 | 31 | 0 | 19.2% |
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
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