High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill — Decline Second Reading — 26 Jun 2013 at 18:48
The majority of MPs voted to approve spending money on preparations for a high speed rail network connecting at least London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester.
MPs were considering the
The High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill[1]. The text of the rejected motion was:
- That this House
- declines to give a second reading to a Bill which authorises preparatory expenditure on a railway without specifying further detail of the route and a limit on expenditure.
The High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill proposed approval for expenditure preparing for a high speed railway network connecting at least: London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester. Expenditure covered by the Bill includes surveying, design, land purchase, and compensating affected property owners.
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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.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Alliance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 197 (+1 tell) | 21 (+1 tell) | 0 | 72.1% |
| DUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.5% |
| Lab | 82 | 12 (+1 tell) | 0 | 36.8% |
| LDem | 39 (+1 tell) | 1 | 0 | 73.2% |
| PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 83.3% |
| Total: | 325 | 37 | 0 | 57.5% |
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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