Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 — Rule of Six — 6 Oct 2020 at 18:14

The majority of MPs voted to prohibit of a gathering of more than six people unless those gathering are all from the same household, or two linked households, or if an exemption applies.

The regulations which were the subject of this vote retained existing restrictions on gatherings restrictions in private dwellings.

The regulations which were the subject of this vote applied to England and to the territorial water adjacent to England only.

The motion supported a majority of MPs in this vote was:

There were exemptions for protests so-long as they were organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body, or a political body, and they complied with the requirements for a risk assessment and taking "all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of the coronavirus".

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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
Con285 (+2 tell) 12 (+2 tell)082.7%
DUP0 5062.5%
Lab0 000.0%
LDem0 000.0%
Total:285 17052.4%

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
Peter BoneWellingboroughwhilst Con (front bench)no
Graham BradyAltrincham and Sale WestCon (front bench)no
Christopher ChopeChristchurchCon (front bench)tellno
Philip DaviesShipleyCon (front bench)no
Richard DraxSouth DorsetCon (front bench)no
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)no
Craig MackinlaySouth ThanetCon (front bench)tellno
Esther McVeyTattonCon (front bench)no
Huw MerrimanBexhill and BattleCon (front bench)no
Henry SmithCrawleyCon (front bench)no
Desmond SwayneNew Forest WestCon (front bench)no
Robert SymsPooleCon (front bench)no
Charles WalkerBroxbourneCon (front bench)no
William WraggHazel GroveCon (front bench)no

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