Draft Freedom of Establishment and Free Movement of Services (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 — 23 Oct 2019 at 19:45

The majority of MPs voted to remove rights for European Union, Swiss and Turkish nationals to pursue activities as self-employed persons, to own and manage companies, and to provide services in the United Kingdom, on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

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

The explanatory memorandum[1] identifies just one practical impact of the regulations, saying they will make using otherwise legitimate satellite decoder cards from the EU to dishonestly receive a programme with the intent of avoiding a charge an offence.

The explanatory memorandum[1] states:

  • It is anticipated that disapplication of these rights will have limited direct or practical impact ...
  • This is because UK legislation should be in accordance with EU law at exit day, including these rights.

However the purpose of the regulations is given as being to: "address deficiencies in retained European Union (EU) law" so to deviate from the default position.

Debate in Parliament |

Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to Octopus Energy or tip us via Ko-Fi.

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
Con284 0098.6%
DUP10 00100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent21 10073.8%
Lab0 224090.7%
LDem0 12080.0%
PC0 40100.0%
SNP0 350100.0%
Total:315 286093.6%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

About the Project

The Public Whip is a not-for-profit, open source website created in 2003 by Francis Irving and Julian Todd and now run by Bairwell Ltd.

The Whip on the Web

Help keep PublicWhip alive