The majority of MPs voted against giving the Scottish Parliament the power to call a referendum on Scottish independence.
MPs were considering the Scotland Bill[1].
The amendment rejected in this vote stated:
An accompanying explanatory note stated:
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This new clause would permit the Scottish Parliament to decide whether and when to hold a referendum on Scottish independence.
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Debate in Parliament | Source |
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con | no |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Callum McCaig | Aberdeen South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Gray | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | no |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | tellaye |
| Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con | no |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Corri Wilson | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP | aye |
| Victoria Prentis | Banbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Howlett | Bath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Con (front bench) | no |
| Calum Kerr | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con | no |
| Huw Merriman | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con | no |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Green | Bolton West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matt Warman | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | no |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con | no |
| James Cleverly | Braintree | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | no |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Monaghan | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | tellaye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Argar | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mary Robinson | Cheadle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con | no |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alex Chalk | Cheltenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michelle Donelan | Chippenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con | no |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | no |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con | no |
| Amanda Solloway | Derby North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Wood | Dudley South | Con | no |
| Richard Arkless | Dumfries and Galloway | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| John Nicolson | East Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| George Kerevan | East Lothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con | no |
| Caroline Ansell | Eastbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Michelle Thomson | Edinburgh West | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Maggie Throup | Erewash | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | no |
| John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Suella Fernandes | Fareham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Whately | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con | no |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con | no |
| Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Natalie McGarry | Glasgow East | whilst SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne McLaughlin | Glasgow North East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP | aye |
| Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alex Salmond | Gordon | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con | no |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con | no |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | no |
| John Howell | Henley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Dowden | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | no |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con | no |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | no |
| Jeremy Quin | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con | no |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP | aye |
| James Berry | Kingston and Surbiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con | no |
| Roger Mullin | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Crawley | Lanark and Hamilton East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Caulfield | Lewes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hannah Bardell | Livingston | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Victoria Atkins | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | no |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con | no |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | no |
| Nigel Huddleston | Mid Worcestershire | Con | no |
| Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con | no |
| Andrea Jenkyns | Morley and Outwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Jenrick | Newark | Con | no |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | no |
| Peter Heaton-Jones | North Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hoare | North Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Gethins | North East Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Craig Tracey | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire | Con | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con | no |
| David Mackintosh | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con | no |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh | Ochil and South Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | no |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Johnny Mercer | Plymouth, Moor View | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Flick Drummond | Portsmouth South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rishi Sunak | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kelly Tolhurst | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con | no |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con | no |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | no |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con | no |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Knight | Solihull | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Warburton | Somerton and Frome | Con | no |
| Danny Kinahan | South Antrim | UUP (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con | no |
| Heidi Allen | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Lucy Frazer | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alberto Costa | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Seema Kennedy | South Ribble | Con | no |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | no |
| James Cartlidge | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Royston Smith | Southampton, Itchen | Con | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Double | St Austell and Newquay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Derek Thomas | St Ives | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | no |
| Steven Paterson | Stirling | SNP | aye |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Scully | Sutton and Cheam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Pow | Taunton Deane | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lucy Allan | Telford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Hollinrake | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Luke Hall | Thornbury and Yate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Thomas Tugendhat | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con | no |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tania Mathias | Twickenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Davies | Vale of Clwyd | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nusrat Ghani | Wealden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Heappey | Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Donaldson | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | SNP | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | no |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marcus Fysh | Yeovil | Con | no |
