Consumer Rights Bill — New Clause 13 — Labelling of Halal and Kosher Meat — 13 May 2014 at 18:45
The majority of MPs voted against requiring products containing halal and kosher meat to be labelled as such.
MPs were considering the Consumer Rights Bill[1]. The text of the proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
- Goods to be as described: meat products
- ‘(1) All products containing halal and kosher meat shall be labelled as such at the point of sale by retail and food outlets.
- (2) A food outlet is anywhere where food is served to the public.’.
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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 |
Con | 234 (+2 tell) | 9 (+2 tell) | 3 | 82.2% |
DUP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25.0% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Lab | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.2% |
LDem | 42 | 0 | 0 | 75.0% |
Total: | 277 | 14 | 3 | 47.5% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by vote
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 |
Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con | aye |
James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | both |
Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con (front bench) | both |
Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | both |