Opposition Day — Horsemeat — 12 Feb 2013 at 15:52

The majority of MPs voted against ensuring police and fraud specialists investigate the criminal networks involved in horsemeat adulteration; against speeding up offical meat tests; and against new testing, labelling and traceability standards for the meat industry.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • notes that up to 100 per cent horsemeat has been found in supermarket and branded processed meat products and that horsemeat has been found at the premises of a UK meat processing plant;
  • notes with concern that seven horses which tested positive for phenylbutazone (bute) contamination have entered the human food chain, including one in England;
  • further notes that meat supplied to UK prisons, labelled Halal, has tested positive for pork DNA;
  • recognises that the Irish government and Northern Irish Executive have called in the police and specialist fraud units to tackle the problem of horsemeat adulteration;
  • further recognises that thousands of jobs depend on consumer confidence in the UK and Irish meat industries; and
  • calls on the Government to ensure that police and fraud specialists investigate the criminal networks involved in horsemeat adulteration, to speed up the Food Standards Agency official tests so that results are back in 14 days and restore consumer confidence in the meat industry by working with the food industry and other EU member states and EU institutions to define new testing, labelling and traceability standards for the meat industry to protect consumers from fraud.

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con252 (+2 tell) 0083.3%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab0 221 (+2 tell)086.4%
LDem45 0080.4%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 4066.7%
Total:297 236083.8%

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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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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