Draft Transparency of Donations and Loans etc. (Northern Ireland Political Parties) Order 2018 — 7 Mar 2018 at 19:38

Hugh Gaffney MP, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill voted against the application of requirements for transparency surrounding political donations and loans in-force in Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

The majority of MPs voted to apply the requirements for transparency surrounding political donations and loans in-force in Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

The explanatory notes to the order[1] explain:

  • Maintaining confidentiality in respect of Northern Ireland political donations and loans has been considered necessary to date to protect donors from the risk of intimidation.
  • ...
  • In January 2017, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland wrote to the Northern Ireland political parties to seek their views on moving to full transparency. All parties that responded agreed that full transparency should be introduced

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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.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con297 0094.0%
DUP10 00100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 3080.0%
Lab0 219084.6%
LDem0 5041.7%
PC0 40100.0%
SNP0 29082.9%
Total:308 261088.6%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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