Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill — New Clause 29 — Family Reunion and Settlement — 30 Jun 2020 at 18:00

The majority of MPs voted against retaining rights for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, spouses, vulnerable adults and dependant adults to join a family member who is legally present in the United Kingdom.

MPs were considering the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill.[1]

The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: Family Reunion and Settlement and began:

  • (1) The Secretary of State must make provision to ensure that an unaccompanied child, spouse or vulnerable or dependant adult who has a family member who is legally present in the United Kingdom has the same rights to be reunited in the United Kingdom with that family member as they would have had under Commission Regulation (EU) No. 604/2013

The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following 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%
Con330 (+2 tell) 4192.3%
DUP0 1012.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 186 (+2 tell)093.1%
LDem0 10090.9%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 20100.0%
SNP0 46095.8%
Total:330 254191.9%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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
Fiona BruceCongletonCon (front bench)aye
Tim LoughtonEast Worthing and ShorehamCon (front bench)aye
Jason McCartneyColne ValleyConaye
Matthew OffordHendonCon (front bench)aye
Sir David AmessSouthend WestCon (front bench)both

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