Sewel Convention — Convention that the UK Parliament Does Not Normally Legislate on Matters Devolved to the Scottish Parliament — 18 Jun 2018 at 21:29
The majority of MPs voted to note they had considered the convention that the United Kingdom parliament does not normally legislate on matters devolved to the Scottish parliament.
The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
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That this House has considered the Sewel Convention.
Section 2 of the Scotland Act 2016[1] provided for the the following, under the title: "The Sewel convention":
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it is recognised that the Parliament of the United Kingdom will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.”
The naming of the convention arose following a House of Lords debate on the Scotland Bill on the 21st of June 1998 during which John Sewel, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office stated[2]:
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we would expect a convention to be established that Westminster would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters in Scotland without the consent of the Scottish parliament.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ross Thomson | Aberdeen South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Gray | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Kirstene Hair | Angus | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | no |
| Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | no |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Grant | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Victoria Prentis | Banbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | no |
| Alex Chalk | Cheltenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | aye |
| Michelle Donelan | Chippenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Wood | Dudley South | Con | aye |
| Alister Jack | Dumfries and Galloway | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | no |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Martin Whitfield | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Masterton | East Renfrewshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | aye |
| Maggie Throup | Erewash | Con | aye |
| John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | no |
| David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | tellno |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Paul Sweeney | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Colin Clark | Gordon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | whilst Con | aye |
| Alan Mak | Havant | Con | aye |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lesley Laird | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Crawley | Lanark and Hamilton East | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Hannah Bardell | Livingston | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Ross | Moray | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | tellno |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | whilst Con | aye |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Gethins | North East Fife | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Lewer | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Luke Graham | Ochil and South Perthshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | both |
| Kelly Tolhurst | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kemi Badenoch | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con | aye |
| Alberto Costa | South Leicestershire | Con | aye |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Seema Kennedy | South Ribble | Con | aye |
| James Cartlidge | South Suffolk | Con | aye |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damien Moore | Southport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con | aye |
| Derek Thomas | St Ives | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Kerr | Stirling | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevin Hollinrake | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eddie Hughes | Walsall North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con | aye |
| Andrew Bowie | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | Con | aye |
| Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con | aye |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con | aye |
