European Union (Withdrawal) Bill — New Clause 13 — UK Retaining EU Common Customs Tarriff and Common Customs Policy — 20 Dec 2017 at 21:00
Owen Smith MP, Pontypridd did not vote.
The majority of MPs voted not to make the United Kingdom retaining the European Union's common customs tariff and common commercial policy a prerequisite for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.
MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill[1].
The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled Customs duties and stated:
- “A Minister of the Crown may not make regulations to appoint exit day until Royal Assent is granted to an Act of Parliament making provision for the substitution of section 5 (customs duties) of the European Communities Act 1972 with provisions that shall allow the United Kingdom to remain a member of the EU common customs tariff and common commercial policy.”
The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following explanatory statement:
- This new clause would ensure that provisions allowing the UK to remain a member of the Customs Union, as currently set out in section 5 of the European Communities Act 1972 but set to be repealed by section 1 of this Act, will be enacted ahead of exit day.
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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 | 306 (+2 tell) | 2 | 0 | 98.1% |
DUP | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40.0% |
Lab | 3 | 62 (+2 tell) | 0 | 25.9% |
LDem | 0 | 11 | 0 | 91.7% |
PC | 0 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
SNP | 0 | 33 | 0 | 94.3% |
Total: | 320 | 114 | 0 | 68.2% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
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 |
Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | whilst Con | aye |
Frank Field | Birkenhead | whilst Lab (front bench) | no |
Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |