Queen's Speech — EU Referendum — 15 May 2013 at 18:47

The majority of MPs voted not to express regret that the Government had not included proposals for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU in their legislative programme.

The proposed text which MPs decided not to include in their response to the Queen's speech was:

  • "but respectfully regret that an EU referendum bill was not included in the Gracious Speech."

Debate in Parliament | Source |

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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
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con1 114 (+2 tell)038.4%
DUP0 4050.0%
Lab220 11089.5%
LDem46 (+2 tell) 1086.0%
PC2 0066.7%
Respect0 10100.0%
SDLP3 00100.0%
SNP5 0083.3%
Total:278 131064.3%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Kwasi KwartengSpelthorneCon (front bench)no
Rosie CooperWest LancashireLab (minister)aye
Jeremy CorbynIslington NorthLab (minister)aye
John CryerLeyton and WansteadLabaye
Natascha EngelNorth East DerbyshireLab (minister)aye
Frank FieldBirkenheadLab (minister)aye
Roger GodsiffBirmingham, Hall GreenLabaye
Kate HoeyVauxhallLab (minister)aye
Kelvin HopkinsLuton NorthLab (minister)aye
Grahame MorrisEasingtonLab (minister)aye
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLabaye
Graham StringerBlackley and BroughtonLab (minister)aye
John HemmingBirmingham, YardleyLDem (front bench)aye

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