Programme for Government — Workers' Rights — Cost of Living — Climate — Benefits — Windfall Tax — Devolution — Human Rights — 18 May 2022 at 18:33

The majority of MPs voted not to express support for a series of policy proposals put forward by the leader of the Scottish National Party Ian Blackford MP. The policies in question were: protecting workers' rights, doing more in respect of the cost of living and climate change; increasing benefits; imposing windfall taxes; retaining existing EU derived law and retaining the existing Human Rights Act.

MPs were discussing a motion thanking the monarch for the Queens' Speech.

The debate on the content of the government's legislative programme outlined in the Queens' speech is technically, and traditionally, on the subject of a message of thanks which the house is to send the monarch for the speech.

The text of the motion under consideration was:

That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which was addressed to both Houses of Parliament.

The amendment rejected by a majority of MPs in this vote was:

at the end of the Question to add:
“but respectfully
regret that the Gracious Speech
fails to include bills that protect workers’ rights, tackle the cost of living crisis, or the climate emergency;
further regret that the Gracious Speech does not contain provision to uplift benefits and implement a windfall tax on companies which are benefiting from significantly increased profits as a result of impacts associated with the pandemic or the current international situation; and
reject the proposals both for a Brexit Freedoms Bill, which will undermine devolution, and the Bill of Rights, which will weaken human rights protections.

The rejected motion was proposed by the leader of the Scottish National Party Ian Blackford MP. Generally PublicWhip does not not note which MP proposed a motion, but in this case it is key context for the nature of the motion.

[1] Queen's Speech, 10 May 2022, House of Commons Official Record, TheyWorkForYou.com
[2] Queen's Speech 2022: background briefing notes, 10 May 2022 , Gov.uk

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Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Neale Hanvey	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	whilst Alba	aye
Kenny MacAskill	East Lothian	whilst Alba	aye
Stephen Farry	North Down	Alliance	aye
Nigel Adams	Selby and Ainsty	Con	no
Bim Afolami	Hitchin and Harpenden	Con	no
Adam Afriyie	Windsor	Con	no
Peter Aldous	Waveney	Con	no
Lucy Allan	Telford	whilst Con	no
Lee Anderson	Ashfield	whilst Con	no
Stuart Anderson	Wolverhampton South West	Con	no
Stuart Andrew	Pudsey	Con	no
Caroline Ansell	Eastbourne	Con	no
Edward Argar	Charnwood	Con	no
Sarah Atherton	Wrexham	Con	no
Gareth Bacon	Orpington	Con	no
Richard Bacon	South Norfolk	Con	no
Kemi Badenoch	Saffron Walden	Con	no
Shaun Bailey	West Bromwich West	Con	no
Siobhan Baillie	Stroud	Con	no
Duncan Baker	North Norfolk	Con	no
Steven Baker	Wycombe	Con	no
Harriett Baldwin	West Worcestershire	Con	no
Steve Barclay	North East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
John Baron	Basildon and Billericay	Con	no
Simon Baynes	Clwyd South	Con	no
Paul Beresford	Mole Valley	Con	no
Jake Berry	Rossendale and Darwen	Con	no
Saqib Bhatti	Meriden	Con	no
Bob Blackman	Harrow East	Con	no
Crispin Blunt	Reigate	Con	no
Peter Bone	Wellingborough	whilst Con	no
Peter Bottomley	Worthing West	Con	no
Andrew Bowie	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	Con	no
Ben Bradley	Mansfield	Con	no
Graham Brady	Altrincham and Sale West	Con	no
Suella Braverman	Fareham	Con	no
Jack Brereton	Stoke-on-Trent South	Con	no
Andrew Bridgen	North West Leicestershire	whilst Con	no
Steve Brine	Winchester	Con	no
Paul Bristow	Peterborough	Con	no
Sara Britcliffe	Hyndburn	Con	no
Anthony Browne	South Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Fiona Bruce	Congleton	Con	no
Felicity Buchan	Kensington	Con	no
Robert Buckland	South Swindon	Con	no
Alex Burghart	Brentwood and Ongar	Con	no
Conor Burns	Bournemouth West	Con	no
Rob Butler	Aylesbury	Con	no
Andy Carter	Warrington South	Con	no
James Cartlidge	South Suffolk	Con	no
Bill Cash	Stone	Con	no
Miriam Cates	Penistone and Stocksbridge	Con	no
Maria Caulfield	Lewes	Con	no
Alex Chalk	Cheltenham	Con	no
Rehman Chishti	Gillingham and Rainham	Con	no
Christopher Chope	Christchurch	Con	no
Jo Churchill	Bury St Edmunds	Con	no
Greg Clark	Tunbridge Wells	Con	no
Simon Clarke	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Con	no
Theo Clarke	Stafford	Con	no
Brendan Clarke-Smith	Bassetlaw	Con	no
Chris Clarkson	Heywood and Middleton	Con	no
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	The Cotswolds	Con	no
Therese Coffey	Suffolk Coastal	Con	no
Elliot Colburn	Carshalton and Wallington	Con	no
Alberto Costa	South Leicestershire	Con	no
Robert Courts	Witney	Con	no
Claire Coutinho	East Surrey	Con	no
Geoffrey Cox	Torridge and West Devon	Con	no
Virginia Crosbie	Ynys Môn	Con	no
Tracey Crouch	Chatham and Aylesford	Con	no
James Daly	Bury North	Con	no
David Davies	Monmouth	Con	no
James Davies	Vale of Clwyd	Con	no
Mims Davies	Mid Sussex	Con	no
Philip Davies	Shipley	Con	no
David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden	Con	no
Dehenna Davison	Bishop Auckland	Con	no
Sarah Dines	Derbyshire Dales	Con	no
Jonathan Djanogly	Huntingdon	Con	no
Leo Docherty	Aldershot	Con	no
Michelle Donelan	Chippenham	Con	no
Steve Double	St Austell and Newquay	Con	no
Oliver Dowden	Hertsmere	Con	no
Jackie Doyle-Price	Thurrock	Con	no
Richard Drax	South Dorset	Con	no
Flick Drummond	Meon Valley	Con	no
James Duddridge	Rochford and Southend East	Con	no
David Duguid	Banff and Buchan	Con	no
Iain Duncan Smith	Chingford and Woodford Green	Con	no
Philip Dunne	Ludlow	Con	no
Mark Eastwood	Dewsbury	Con	no
Ruth Edwards	Rushcliffe	Con	no
Michael Ellis	Northampton North	Con	no
Natalie Elphicke	Dover	whilst Con	no
George Eustice	Camborne and Redruth	Con	no
Luke Evans	Bosworth	Con	no
David Evennett	Bexleyheath and Crayford	Con	no
Ben Everitt	Milton Keynes North	Con	no
Michael Fabricant	Lichfield	Con	no
Laura Farris	Newbury	Con	no
Simon Fell	Barrow and Furness	Con	no
Katherine Fletcher	South Ribble	Con	no
Mark Fletcher	Bolsover	Con	no
Nicholas Fletcher	Don Valley	Con	no
Vicky Ford	Chelmsford	Con	no
Kevin Foster	Torbay	Con	no
Mark Francois	Rayleigh and Wickford	Con	no
Lucy Frazer	South East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
George Freeman	Mid Norfolk	Con	no
Mike Freer	Finchley and Golders Green	Con	no
Louie French	Old Bexley and Sidcup	Con	no
Richard Fuller	North East Bedfordshire	Con	no
Marcus Fysh	Yeovil	Con	no
Roger Gale	North Thanet	Con	no
Mark Garnier	Wyre Forest	Con	no
Nusrat Ghani	Wealden	Con	no
Nick Gibb	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	Con	no
Jo Gideon	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Con	no
Robert Goodwill	Scarborough and Whitby	Con	no
Richard Graham	Gloucester	Con	no
James Gray	North Wiltshire	Con	no
Chris Grayling	Epsom and Ewell	Con	no
Chris Green	Bolton West	Con	no
Damian Green	Ashford	Con	no
Andrew Griffith	Arundel and South Downs	Con	no
James Grundy	Leigh	Con	no
Jonathan Gullis	Stoke-on-Trent North	Con	no
Robert Halfon	Harlow	Con	no
Luke Hall	Thornbury and Yate	Con	no
Stephen Hammond	Wimbledon	Con	no
Greg Hands	Chelsea and Fulham	Con	no
Mark Harper	Forest of Dean	Con	no
Rebecca Harris	Castle Point	Con	no
Trudy Harrison	Copeland	Con	no
Sally-Ann Hart	Hastings and Rye	Con	no
Simon Hart	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Con	no
John Hayes	South Holland and The Deepings	Con	no
Oliver Heald	North East Hertfordshire	Con	no
James Heappey	Wells	Con	no
Chris Heaton-Harris	Daventry	Con	no
Gordon Henderson	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Con	no
Darren Henry	Broxtowe	Con	no
Antony Higginbotham	Burnley	Con	no
Damian Hinds	East Hampshire	Con	no
Simon Hoare	North Dorset	Con	no
Richard Holden	North West Durham	Con	no
Philip Hollobone	Kettering	Con	no
Paul Holmes	Eastleigh	Con	no
Paul Howell	Sedgefield	Con	no
Nigel Huddleston	Mid Worcestershire	Con	no
Neil Hudson	Penrith and The Border	Con	no
Jane Hunt	Loughborough	Con	no
Jeremy Hunt	South West Surrey	Con	no
Tom Hunt	Ipswich	Con	no
Alister Jack	Dumfries and Galloway	Con	no
Ranil Jayawardena	North East Hampshire	Con	no
Bernard Jenkin	Harwich and North Essex	Con	no
Mark Jenkinson	Workington	Con	no
Andrea Jenkyns	Morley and Outwood	Con	no
Robert Jenrick	Newark	Con	no
Dr Caroline Johnson	Sleaford and North Hykeham	Con	no
Gareth Johnson	Dartford	Con	tellno
David Johnston	Wantage	Con	no
Andrew Jones	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Con	no
David Jones	Clwyd West	Con	no
Fay Jones	Brecon and Radnorshire	Con	no
Marcus Jones	Nuneaton	Con	no
Simon Jupp	East Devon	Con	no
Daniel Kawczynski	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Con	no
Alicia Kearns	Rutland and Melton	Con	no
Gillian Keegan	Chichester	Con	no
Greg Knight	East Yorkshire	Con	no
Julian Knight	Solihull	whilst Con	no
Kate Kniveton	Burton	Con	no
Danny Kruger	Devizes	Con	no
John Lamont	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	Con	no
Robert Largan	High Peak	Con	no
Pauline Latham	Mid Derbyshire	Con	no
Andrea Leadsom	South Northamptonshire	Con	no
Edward Leigh	Gainsborough	Con	no
Ian Levy	Blyth Valley	Con	no
Andrew Lewer	Northampton South	Con	no
Brandon Lewis	Great Yarmouth	Con	no
Julian Lewis	New Forest East	whilst Con	no
Ian Liddell-Grainger	Bridgwater and West Somerset	Con	no
Chris Loder	West Dorset	Con	no
Mark Logan	Bolton North East	Con	no
Marco Longhi	Dudley North	Con	no
Julia Lopez	Hornchurch and Upminster	Con	no
Jonathan Lord	Woking	Con	no
Tim Loughton	East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	no
Craig Mackinlay	South Thanet	Con	no
Cherilyn Mackrory	Truro and Falmouth	Con	no
Rachel Maclean	Redditch	Con	no
Alan Mak	Havant	Con	no
Kit Malthouse	North West Hampshire	Con	no
Anthony Mangnall	Totnes	Con	no
Scott Mann	North Cornwall	Con	no
Julie Marson	Hertford and Stortford	Con	no
Jerome Mayhew	Broadland	Con	no
Paul Maynard	Blackpool North and Cleveleys	Con	no
Jason McCartney	Colne Valley	Con	no
Karl McCartney	Lincoln	Con	no
Stephen McPartland	Stevenage	Con	no
Esther McVey	Tatton	Con	no
Mark Menzies	Fylde	whilst Con	no
Huw Merriman	Bexhill and Battle	Con	no
Stephen Metcalfe	South Basildon and East Thurrock	Con	no
Robin Millar	Aberconwy	Con	no
Nigel Mills	Amber Valley	Con	no
Andrew Mitchell	Sutton Coldfield	Con	no
Gagan Mohindra	South West Hertfordshire	Con	no
Damien Moore	Southport	Con	no
Robbie Moore	Keighley	Con	no
Anne Marie Morris	Newton Abbot	Con	no
David Morris	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Con	no
James Morris	Halesowen and Rowley Regis	Con	no
Joy Morrissey	Beaconsfield	Con	no
Jill Mortimer	Hartlepool	Con	no
Kieran Mullan	Crewe and Nantwich	Con	no
David Mundell	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Con	no
Sheryll Murray	South East Cornwall	Con	no
Andrew Murrison	South West Wiltshire	Con	no
Bob Neill	Bromley and Chislehurst	Con	no
Lia Nici	Great Grimsby	Con	no
Caroline Nokes	Romsey and Southampton North	Con	no
Jesse Norman	Hereford and South Herefordshire	Con	no
Neil O'Brien	Harborough	Con	no
Matthew Offord	Hendon	Con	no
Guy Opperman	Hexham	Con	no
Priti Patel	Witham	Con	no
Mark Pawsey	Rugby	Con	no
Mike Penning	Hemel Hempstead	Con	no
John Penrose	Weston-Super-Mare	Con	no
Andrew Percy	Brigg and Goole	Con	no
Chris Philp	Croydon South	Con	no
Christopher Pincher	Tamworth	whilst Con	no
Daniel Poulter	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	whilst Con	no
Rebecca Pow	Taunton Deane	Con	no
Tom Pursglove	Corby	Con	no
Jeremy Quin	Horsham	Con	no
Will Quince	Colchester	Con	no
Tom Randall	Gedling	Con	no
John Redwood	Wokingham	Con	no
Jacob Rees-Mogg	North East Somerset	Con	no
Nicola Richards	West Bromwich East	Con	no
Angela Richardson	Guildford	Con	no
Laurence Robertson	Tewkesbury	Con	no
Mary Robinson	Cheadle	Con	no
Lee Rowley	North East Derbyshire	Con	no
Dean Russell	Watford	Con	no
David Rutley	Macclesfield	Con	no
Selaine Saxby	North Devon	Con	no
Paul Scully	Sutton and Cheam	Con	no
Bob Seely	Isle of Wight	Con	no
Andrew Selous	South West Bedfordshire	Con	no
Alok Sharma	Reading West	Con	no
Alec Shelbrooke	Elmet and Rothwell	Con	no
David Simmonds	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	Con	no
Chris Skidmore	Kingswood	Con	no
Chloe Smith	Norwich North	Con	no
Greg Smith	Buckingham	Con	no
Henry Smith	Crawley	Con	no
Julian Smith	Skipton and Ripon	Con	no
Royston Smith	Southampton, Itchen	Con	no
Amanda Solloway	Derby North	Con	no
Ben Spencer	Runnymede and Weybridge	Con	no
Alexander Stafford	Rother Valley	Con	no
Andrew Stephenson	Pendle	Con	no
Jane Stevenson	Wolverhampton North East	Con	no
John Stevenson	Carlisle	Con	no
Mel Stride	Central Devon	Con	no
Graham Stuart	Beverley and Holderness	Con	no
Julian Sturdy	York Outer	Con	no
Desmond Swayne	New Forest West	Con	no
Robert Syms	Poole	Con	no
Derek Thomas	St Ives	Con	no
Maggie Throup	Erewash	Con	no
Edward Timpson	Eddisbury	Con	no
Kelly Tolhurst	Rochester and Strood	Con	no
Justin Tomlinson	North Swindon	Con	no
Michael Tomlinson	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Con	tellno
Craig Tracey	North Warwickshire	Con	no
Anne-Marie Trevelyan	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Con	no
Laura Trott	Sevenoaks	Con	no
Thomas Tugendhat	Tonbridge and Malling	Con	no
Shailesh Vara	North West Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Martin Vickers	Cleethorpes	Con	no
Matt Vickers	Stockton South	Con	no
Theresa Villiers	Chipping Barnet	Con	no
Charles Walker	Broxbourne	Con	no
Robin Walker	Worcester	Con	no
Ben Wallace	Wyre and Preston North	Con	no
Jamie Wallis	Bridgend	Con	no
Matt Warman	Boston and Skegness	Con	no
Giles Watling	Clacton	Con	no
Suzanne Webb	Stourbridge	Con	no
Helen Whately	Faversham and Mid Kent	Con	no
Heather Wheeler	South Derbyshire	Con	no
Craig Whittaker	Calder Valley	Con	no
John Whittingdale	Maldon	Con	no
Bill Wiggin	North Herefordshire	Con	no
James Wild	North West Norfolk	Con	no
Craig Williams	Montgomeryshire	Con	no
Gavin Williamson	South Staffordshire	Con	no
Mike Wood	Dudley South	Con	no
William Wragg	Hazel Grove	Con	no
Jeremy Wright	Kenilworth and Southam	Con	no
Jacob Young	Redcar	Con	no
Nadhim Zahawi	Stratford-on-Avon	Con	no
Jeffrey M. Donaldson	Lagan Valley	DUP	no
Ian Paisley Jnr	North Antrim	DUP	no
Jim Shannon	Strangford	DUP	no
Caroline Lucas	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	aye
Margaret Ferrier	Rutherglen and Hamilton West	whilst Independent	aye
Alistair Carmichael	Orkney and Shetland	LDem	aye
Wendy Chamberlain	North East Fife	LDem	aye
Daisy Cooper	St Albans	LDem	aye
Edward Davey	Kingston and Surbiton	LDem	aye
Tim Farron	Westmorland and Lonsdale	LDem	aye
Sarah Green	Chesham and Amersham	LDem	aye
Wera Hobhouse	Bath	LDem	aye
Christine Jardine	Edinburgh West	LDem	aye
Layla Moran	Oxford West and Abingdon	LDem	aye
Helen Morgan	North Shropshire	LDem	aye
Sarah Olney	Richmond Park	LDem	aye
Munira Wilson	Twickenham	LDem	aye
Ben Lake	Ceredigion	PC	aye
Liz Saville-Roberts	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	PC	aye
Colum Eastwood	Foyle	SDLP	aye
Claire Hanna	Belfast South	SDLP	aye
Hannah Bardell	Livingston	SNP	aye
Mhairi Black	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	SNP	aye
Ian Blackford	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	SNP	aye
Kirsty Blackman	Aberdeen North	SNP	aye
Steven Bonnar	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	SNP	aye
Alan Brown	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	SNP	aye
Amy Callaghan	East Dunbartonshire	SNP	aye
Lisa Cameron	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow	whilst SNP	aye
Douglas Chapman	Dunfermline and West Fife	SNP	aye
Joanna Cherry	Edinburgh South West	SNP	aye
Ronnie Cowan	Inverclyde	SNP	aye
Angela Crawley	Lanark and Hamilton East	SNP	aye
Martyn Day	Linlithgow and East Falkirk	SNP	aye
Martin Docherty	West Dunbartonshire	SNP	aye
Marion Fellows	Motherwell and Wishaw	SNP	tellaye
Stephen Flynn	Aberdeen South	SNP	aye
Patricia Gibson	North Ayrshire and Arran	SNP	aye
Peter Grant	Glenrothes	SNP	aye
Drew Hendry	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	SNP	aye
Stewart Hosie	Dundee East	SNP	aye
Chris Law	Dundee West	SNP	aye
David Linden	Glasgow East	SNP	aye
Stewart McDonald	Glasgow South	SNP	aye
Stuart McDonald	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East	SNP	aye
Anne McLaughlin	Glasgow North East	SNP	aye
John McNally	Falkirk	SNP	aye
Carol Monaghan	Glasgow North West	SNP	aye
Gavin Newlands	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	SNP	aye
John Nicolson	Ochil and South Perthshire	SNP	aye
Brendan O'Hara	Argyll and Bute	SNP	aye
Kirsten Oswald	East Renfrewshire	SNP	aye
Anum Qaisar	Airdrie and Shotts	SNP	aye
Tommy Sheppard	Edinburgh East	SNP	aye
Alyn Smith	Stirling	SNP	aye
Chris Stephens	Glasgow South West	SNP	aye
Alison Thewliss	Glasgow Central	SNP	aye
Owen Thompson	Midlothian	SNP	aye
Richard Thomson	Gordon	SNP	tellaye
Philippa Whitford	Central Ayrshire	SNP	aye
Pete Wishart	Perth and North Perthshire	SNP	aye

Programme for Government — Workers' Rights — Cost of Living — Climate — Benefits — Windfall Tax — Devolution — Human Rights — 18 May 2022 at 18:33

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