Scottish Parliament – Sept. 29, 2021 – 5
Legal Right to Recovery
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 67 MSPs
No: 32 MSPs
Absent: 10 MSPs
Abstain: 21 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Strong conflict: Gov proposesThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where the government is proposing a motion and the opposition is strongly opposing it (few defections, high turnout).
This usually suggests an important point of principle, that even if the government is likely to win, is a significant public signal of opposition.
Motion
Motion type: Other(?)
S6M-01416: That the Parliament believes that record drug deaths in Scotland are a humanitarian crisis;
further believes that progress in the rehabilitation and treatment of addiction in Scotland has been too slow;
calls for a legal right to recovery to tackle Scotland’s ongoing drug deaths crisis with the urgency that it deserves;
notes that the possession of class A drugs is a serious offence and should not be dealt with through warnings that seek "not criminalising" offenders;
believes that the content of the Lord Advocate’s recent Ministerial Statement deserves proper consultation, and calls for the Scottish Government to set aside time to debate this matter in full.
Annotations
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Whip reports
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Overall counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 130 | 99 | 67 | 32 | 21 | 10 | 76.15% | 67.68% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 58 | 32 | 0 | 32 | 21 | 5 | 55.17% | 0.00% |
| Government | 72 | 67 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 93.06% | 100.00% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottish National Party | 64 | 61 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 95.31% | 100.00% |
| Labour | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Liberal Democrat | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 0.00% |
| Green | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 75.00% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 31 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 90.32% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Donald Cameron | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Christina McKelvie | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Dean Lockhart | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |