P&O Ferries and Employment Rights — 21 Mar 2022 at 19:19

The majority of MPs voted in favour of suspending contracts and licences held by the owner of P&O Ferries, DP World, to remove them from the Transport Advisory Group and in favour of strengthening workers' rights and banning the practice of fire and rehire.

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

  • That this House
  • condemns the decision of P&O Ferries to fire 800 staff without notice and demands their immediate reinstatement;
  • notes that DP World, the owner of P&O Ferries, received millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money during the coronavirus pandemic;
  • calls on the Government to suspend the contracts and licences of DP World and remove them from the Government’s Transport Advisory Group; and
  • further calls on the Government to bring forward a Bill urgently to outlaw fire and rehire and strengthen workers’ rights.

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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Alba1 0050.0%
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con0 000.0%
DUP5 0062.5%
Independent3 0060.0%
Lab154 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)079.0%
LDem11 0084.6%
PC2 0066.7%
SDLP2 00100.0%
SNP30 0066.7%
Total:209 0033.2%

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
Lilian GreenwoodNottingham SouthLab (minister)tellno
Mark TamiAlyn and DeesideLab (minister)tellno

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