Amendments to Acts of Parliament in Light of the Introduction of Same Sex Marriage in Parts of the UK — 5 Mar 2014 at 19:16

The majority of MPs voted in favour of various amendments to acts of Parliament in light of the introduction of same sex marriage.

The motion approved by the majority of MPs was:

That the draft Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014, which was laid before this House on 23 January, be approved.

Key elements include:

Requiring those in a same sex marriage be treated under the law of Scotland for the time being as if they were in a civil partnership (as same sex marriage is not lawful in Scotland, though there is legislation to bring it in going through the Scottish Parliament.)
Consequential amendments to many acts of Parliament following the introduction of same sex marriages.
Many exceptions to the principle in Section 11 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 which states: "In the law of England and Wales, marriage has the same effect in relation to same sex couples as it has in relation to opposite sex couples" are made, including some relating to royal titles, rights to peerages and associated titles, EU laws, some pensions regulations, and the defence of marital coercion.

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.

Party	Majority (Aye)	Minority (No)	Both	Turnout
Alliance	1	0	0	100.0%
Con	125	84	0	68.5%
DUP	0	7	0	87.5%
Green	1	0	0	100.0%
Independent	0	1	0	50.0%
Lab	184	10	0	75.2%
LDem	47	1	0	85.7%
PC	3	0	0	100.0%
SNP	4	0	0	66.7%
Total:	365	103	0	73.1%

Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency

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

Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Gerald Howarth	Aldershot	Con	no
Richard Shepherd	Aldridge-Brownhills	Con	no
Bob Stewart	Beckenham	Con	no
Ronnie Campbell	Blyth Valley	Lab	no
David Crausby	Bolton North East	Lab	no
Joe Benton	Bootle	Lab	no
David Tredinnick	Bosworth	Con	no
Ian Liddell-Grainger	Bridgwater and West Somerset	Con	no
Bob Neill	Bromley and Chislehurst	Con	no
Gordon Birtwistle	Burnley	LDem	no
David Ruffley	Bury St Edmunds	Con	no
Craig Whittaker	Calder Valley	Con	no
Julian Brazier	Canterbury	Con	no
John Stevenson	Carlisle	Con	no
Mel Stride	Central Devon	Con	no
Dame Cheryl Gillan	Chesham and Amersham	Con	no
Christopher Chope	Christchurch	Con	no
Douglas Carswell	Clacton	Con	no
Martin Vickers	Cleethorpes	Con	no
Fiona Bruce	Congleton	Con	no
Henry Smith	Crawley	Con	no
Charlie Elphicke	Dover	Con	no
Jim McGovern	Dundee West	Lab	no
Tim Loughton	East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	no
Nick de Bois	Enfield North	Con	no
David Burrowes	Enfield, Southgate	Con	no
Edward Leigh	Gainsborough	Con	no
Rehman Chishti	Gillingham and Rainham	Con	no
Adam Holloway	Gravesham	Con	no
James Morris	Halesowen and Rowley Regis	Con	no
David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden	Con	no
Edward Garnier	Harborough	Con	no
Robert Halfon	Harlow	Con	no
Bob Blackman	Harrow East	Con	no
Mike Penning	Hemel Hempstead	Con	no
Jon Trickett	Hemsworth	Lab	no
Matthew Offord	Hendon	Con	no
Mark Prisk	Hertford and Stortford	Con	no
Jim Dobbin	Heywood and Middleton	Lab	no
Andrew Bingham	High Peak	Con	no
Peter Lilley	Hitchin and Harpenden	Con	no
Lee Scott	Ilford North	Con	no
Andrew Turner	Isle of Wight	Con	no
Philip Hollobone	Kettering	Con	no
George Mudie	Leeds East	Lab	no
Karl McCartney	Lincoln	Con	no
Peter Tapsell	Louth and Horncastle	Con	no
David Rutley	Macclesfield	Con	no
John Whittingdale	Maldon	Con	no
Nadine Dorries	Mid Bedfordshire	Con	no
Glyn Davies	Montgomeryshire	Con	no
David Morris	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Con	no
Julian Lewis	New Forest East	Con	no
Oliver Heald	North East Hertfordshire	Con	no
Jacob Rees-Mogg	North East Somerset	Con	no
Bill Wiggin	North Herefordshire	Con	no
Liam Fox	North Somerset	Con	no
Roger Gale	North Thanet	Con	no
Mary Glindon	North Tyneside	Lab	no
Andrew Bridgen	North West Leicestershire	Con	no
Henry Bellingham	North West Norfolk	Con	no
Brian Binley	Northampton South	Con	no
Graham Allen	Nottingham North	Lab	no
Marcus Jones	Nuneaton	Con	no
Stewart Jackson	Peterborough	Con	no
Robert Syms	Poole	Con	no
Karen Lumley	Redditch	Con	no
John Glen	Salisbury	Con	no
Philip Davies	Shipley	Con	no
Stephen Metcalfe	South Basildon and East Thurrock	Con	no
Heather Wheeler	South Derbyshire	Con	no
Richard Drax	South Dorset	Con	no
James Paice	South East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Andrew Robathan	South Leicestershire	Con	no
Gavin Williamson	South Staffordshire	Con	no
Robert Buckland	South Swindon	Con	no
Andrew Selous	South West Bedfordshire	Con	no
Sir David Amess	Southend West	Con	no
Anne Main	St Albans	Con	no
Jeremy Lefroy	Stafford	Con	no
Stephen McPartland	Stevenage	Con	no
Alex Cunningham	Stockton North	Lab	no
Bill Cash	Stone	Con	no
Laurence Robertson	Tewkesbury	Con	no
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	The Cotswolds	Con	no
Anne McIntosh	Thirsk and Malton	Con	no
Neil Parish	Tiverton and Honiton	Con	no
John Randall	Uxbridge and South Ruislip	Con	no
Peter Aldous	Waveney	Con	no
Peter Bone	Wellingborough	Con	no
Esther McVey	Wirral West	Con	no
John Redwood	Wokingham	Con	no
Ben Wallace	Wyre and Preston North	Con	no
Mark Garnier	Wyre Forest	Con	no
Julian Sturdy	York Outer	Con	no

Amendments to Acts of Parliament in Light of the Introduction of Same Sex Marriage in Parts of the UK — 5 Mar 2014 at 19:16

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