Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions on Holding of Gatherings and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 — Ban on Gatherings of More than 30 People at Private Homes in England — 23 Sep 2020 at 20:40

The majority of MPs voted to approve a ban on indoor or outdoor gatherings of more than thirty people at a private home in England.

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

These regulations primarily amended the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 and made other consequential amendments.

The regulations introduced two new provisions titled: Restriction on organisation or facilitation of certain large indoor gatherings and Restrictions on organisation or facilitation of other gatherings. The first of these prohibited taking part in organising indoor raves, the second more generally prohibited taking part in organising gatherings of more than 30 people on land not operated by an organisation, with exceptions including for gatherings convened by organisations where those gatherings are deemed necessary and where all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of the coronavirus have been taken.

Fixed penalties for organising gatherings were set at £10,000 and £100 for other offences under the regulations.

The regulations which were the subject of this vote came into force on 28 August 2020 and would have ceased to have effect 28 days after coming into force unless they were approved by a motion of both houses of Parliament.[2]

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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
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con327 2090.4%
DUP3 2062.5%
Green1 00100.0%
Lab0 100.5%
LDem0 000.0%
Total:332 5057.4%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Gregory CampbellEast LondonderryDUP (front bench)no
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)no
Desmond SwayneNew Forest WestCon (front bench)no
Sammy WilsonEast AntrimDUP (front bench)no

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