European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill — New Clause 10 — Implementation Period Negotiating Objectives: Erasmus+ — 8 Jan 2020 at 19:00

The majority of MPs voted against requiring the Government to seek to negotiate continuing full membership of the European Union's Erasmus+ education and youth programme.

MPs were considering the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill.[1]

The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: Implementation period negotiating objectives: Erasmus+ and stated:

  • (1) It shall be an objective of the Government to secure an agreement within the framework of the future relationship of the UK and the EU before the end of the implementation period that enables the UK to participate in all elements of the Erasmus+ programme on existing terms after the implementation period ends (“the Erasmus+ negotiations”).
  • (2) A Minister shall lay before each House of Parliament a progress report on the Erasmus+ negotiations within six months of this Act being passed.’

The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following explanatory statement from its proposer:

Debate in Parliament |

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con336 (+2 tell) 0092.6%
DUP8 00100.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 191094.6%
LDem0 9 (+2 tell)0100.0%
PC0 40100.0%
SDLP0 20100.0%
SNP0 46097.9%
Total:344 254093.9%

Rebel Voters - sorted by name

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
no rebellions

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