Printing Acts of Parliament on Vellum — 20 Apr 2016 at 18:58
The majority of MPs voted to continue to print Acts of Parliament on vellum, a material made of calfskin.
The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
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That this House
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disagrees with the conclusion of the House of Commons Administration Committee’s First Report of Session 2015-16;
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welcomes the view expressed by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General that government funds would be available to pay for the continued use of vellum for printing Acts of Parliament;
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is unwilling to amend or resile from the terms of the Resolutions agreed by both Houses on 12 February 1849; and
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accordingly instructs the Clerk of the House to convey to the Clerk of the Parliaments that the House of Commons has withheld its consent to the use of archival paper rather than vellum for the printing of record copies of public Acts of Parliament.
A research briefing[1] from the House of Commons Library states:
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Record copies of public Acts have been printed on vellum, a durable material made of calfskin, since 1849. They were handwritten on parchment rolls (usually made from goatskin) until then.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Argar | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Victoria Atkins | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Victoria Borwick | Kensington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | aye |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con | aye |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nusrat Ghani | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Green | Bolton West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Heappey | Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hoare | North Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Jenrick | Newark | Con | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Seema Kennedy | South Ribble | Con | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con | aye |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire | Con | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con | aye |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Pow | Taunton Deane | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Quin | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Antoinette Sandbach | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Warburton | Somerton and Frome | Con | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab | aye |
| Chris Matheson | City of Chester | Lab | aye |
| Conor McGinn | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ruth Smeeth | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Kyle | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Melanie Onn | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christina Rees | Neath | Lab | no |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP | no |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Phil Boswell | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP | no |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP | no |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Roger Mullin | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Corri Wilson | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
