Business of the House — Require MPs to Provide Explanatory Statements Along With Amendments to Bills They Propose — 6 Nov 2013 at 20:15

The majority of MPs voted against requiring MPs to provide explanatory statements to accompany amendments they propose to Bills.

MPs were considering a motion:

This vote was on a rejected amendment which replaced the above motion with:

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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
Con94 (+1 tell) 5032.8%
DUP0 5062.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab34 3 (+1 tell)115.1%
LDem13 (+1 tell) 5033.9%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 2 (+1 tell)050.0%
Total:141 22126.4%

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
Zac GoldsmithRichmond ParkCon (front bench)aye
Nigel MillsAmber ValleyCon (front bench)aye
Matthew OffordHendonCon (front bench)aye
John StevensonCarlisleCon (front bench)aye
Sarah WollastonTotnesCon (front bench)aye
Jeremy CorbynIslington NorthLab (minister)tellaye
John Martin McDonnellHayes and HarlingtonLabaye
Michael MeacherOldham West and RoytonLabaye
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLabaye
Jimmy HoodLanark and Hamilton EastLab (minister)both
Andrew GeorgeSt IvesLDem (front bench)aye
Nick HarveyNorth DevonLDem (front bench)aye
David HeathSomerton and FromeLDemaye
Julian HuppertCambridgeLDem (front bench)aye
Alan ReidArgyll and ButeLDem (front bench)aye

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