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 |
| Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Corri Wilson | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Chris Green | Bolton West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | no |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Argar | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con | aye |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Matheson | City of Chester | Lab | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Phil Boswell | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP | no |
| Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | aye |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Antoinette Sandbach | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP | no |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Melanie Onn | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | aye |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Quin | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Kyle | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Victoria Borwick | Kensington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP | no |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con | aye |
| Roger Mullin | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Victoria Atkins | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Christina Rees | Neath | Lab | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Jenrick | Newark | Con | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Simon Hoare | North Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab | aye |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire | Con | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab | no |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | aye |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Warburton | Somerton and Frome | Con | aye |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Seema Kennedy | South Ribble | Con | aye |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor McGinn | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ruth Smeeth | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Pow | Taunton Deane | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nusrat Ghani | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Heappey | Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
