Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill — Second Reading — Refugees' Family Reunion — Immigration Law — Legal Aid — 16 Mar 2018 at 13:00

Ed Vaizey MP, Wantage did not vote.

The majority of MPs taking part voted for refugees in the United Kingdom to be permitted to sponsor a wider set of family members to join them and to allow legal aid to be used in relation to refugee family reunion applications in England and Wales.

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

  • That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The support for the motion enabled the Bill to continue its path to becoming law.

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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
Con4 42 (+2 tell)015.2%
Lab91 0035.1%
LDem4 0033.3%
PC2 0050.0%
SNP28 (+2 tell) 0085.7%
Total:129 42028.0%

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

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Peter BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)aye
Bob NeillBromley and ChislehurstCon (front bench)aye
Henry SmithCrawleyCon (front bench)aye
Anna SoubryBroxtowewhilst Conaye

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