Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill — Before Clause 1 — Purpose: improvement of passenger railway services — 19 Nov 2024 at 14:45

“an accessibility road map that will explain the actions we intend to take to improve things for disabled people or others requiring assistance in advance of GBR being set up.”-[Official Report, House of Lords, 6 November 2024; Vol. 840, c. 1550.]
“glaring omission from the Bill is, of course, the passenger.”-[Official Report, House of Lords, 6 November 2024; Vol. 840, c. 1510.]
“must, in taking any actions under the provisions of this Act, have regard to this purpose”,
“improvement of passenger railway services”.
“the Government do not believe that we should either pay compensation for termination or keep paying fees to owning groups of train operating companies when we do not need to.”
“if we have the opportunity to put passengers out of their misery by ending a failing operator’s contract early and bringing their services into public ownership, we will do just that.”-[Official Report, House of Lords, 6 November 2024; Vol. 840, c. 1519.]

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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
Con0 97 (+2 tell)081.8%
DUP0 4080.0%
Green4 00100.0%
Independent2 1157.1%
Lab328 (+2 tell) 0080.5%
LDem0 65090.3%
Reform UK0 3060.0%
SDLP2 00100.0%
SNP8 0088.9%
Traditional Unionist Voice0 10100.0%
Total:344 171181.8%

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

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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