Nationality and Borders Bill — New Clause 3 — Offence of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation — 8 Dec 2021 at 14:45
The majority of MPs voted not to create a new offence of arranging or facilitating a person's travel to the United Kingdom with a view to that person being sexually exploited in the United Kingdom.
MPs were considering the Nationality and Borders Bill.[1][2][3]
The proposed new clause rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was titled: Offence of human trafficking for sexual exploitation and began:
- (1) A person commits an offence if the person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person (“V”) to the United Kingdom with a view to V being sexually exploited in the United Kingdom.
- (2) It is irrelevant whether V consents to the travel (whether V is an adult or a child).
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- [1] Parliament's webpage on the Nationality and Borders Bill, Parliament.uk
- [2] Nationality and Borders Bill, as amended in Public Bill Committee, 4 November 2021, Parliament.uk
- [3] Explanatory notes to the Nationality and Borders Bill, as introduced 6 July 2021, Parliament.uk
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.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Alba | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 285 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 79.3% |
| DUP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 62.5% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 166 (+2 tell) | 0 | 84.4% |
| LDem | 0 | 11 | 0 | 91.7% |
| PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 39 | 0 | 86.7% |
| Total: | 286 | 234 | 0 | 81.9% |
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
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote | |
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