Wales Bill — Clause 1 — Separation of the Legal Systems of England and Wales — 5 Jul 2016 at 14:30
The majority of MPs voted against the separation of the legal systems of England and Wales.
MPs were considering the Wales Bill.[1]
The amendment rejected in this vote began:
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Amendment 5, page 2, leave out lines 1 to 6 and insert—
“Part 2B
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Separation of the Legal Jurisdiction of England and Wales
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Introductory
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92B New legal jurisdictions of England and of Wales
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The legal jurisdiction of England and Wales becomes two separate legal jurisdictions, that of England and that of Wales.
...
The amendment went on to cover the "Separation of the law" and the "Separation of the Senior Courts".
An explanatory note accompanying the rejected amendment stated:
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This amendment replaces the Bill’s proposed recognition of Welsh law with provisions to separate the legal jurisdictions of England and of Wales, as drafted by the Welsh Government.
The text in the Bill which the rejected amendment sought to replace was within Clause 1[2] and stated:
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92B Recognition of Welsh law
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(1) There is a body of Welsh law made by the Assembly and the Welsh Ministers.
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(2) The purpose of this section is, with due regard to the other provisions of this Act, to recognise the ability of the Assembly and the Welsh Ministers to make law forming part of the law of England and Wales.”
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Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | 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 |
Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | 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) | aye |
Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con | no |
Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
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 |
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 |
Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Con (front bench) | no |
Calum Kerr | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
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 |
David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con | 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 |
Chris Davies | Brecon and Radnorshire | 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) | tellno |
Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | 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 |
Craig Williams | Cardiff North | Con (front bench) | no |
John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | no |
Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
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 |
Mary Robinson | Cheadle | Con (front bench) | no |
Alex Chalk | Cheltenham | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | no |
Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | 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 |
Phil Boswell | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP | aye |
Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | no |
Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | no |
Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | 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 |
Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | no |
Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
Mike Wood | Dudley South | Con | no |
Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
George Kerevan | East Lothian | 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 |
Antoinette Sandbach | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | 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 |
Tom Elliott | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | UUP | no |
Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | no |
Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
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 |
Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP | aye |
Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | no |
Byron Davies | Gower | Con (front bench) | no |
Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | 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 |
David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | 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 |
Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | 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 |
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 |
Victoria Borwick | Kensington | 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 |
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 |
Philip Dunne | Ludlow | 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) | no |
Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | no |
Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con | no |
George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
Nigel Huddleston | Mid Worcestershire | Con | no |
Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
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 |
David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Angus Robertson | Moray | 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 |
Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Scott Mann | North Cornwall | 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) | aye |
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 |
Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con | no |
Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con | no |
Liam Fox | North Somerset | 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 |
Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con | no |
Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con | no |
Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con | 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 |
Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | no |
Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | no |
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 |
Robert Syms | Poole | Con | 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 |
Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | no |
Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | no |
Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
Rishi Sunak | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | no |
Kelly Tolhurst | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con | no |
Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con (front bench) | no |
Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con | 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 |
Mark Spencer | Sherwood | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Royston Smith | Southampton, Itchen | Con | no |
Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (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 |
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 |
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 |
Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | 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 |
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | 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 |
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 |
Tania Mathias | Twickenham | Con (front bench) | no |
David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | no |
Boris Johnson | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con | no |
James Davies | Vale of Clwyd | Con (front bench) | no |
Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | 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 |
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 |
Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con | no |
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 |
Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |
John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
Marcus Fysh | Yeovil | Con | no |
Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |