Scottish Parliament – Feb. 19, 2025 – 3
Protecting the Powers of the Scottish Parliament
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 73 MSPs
No: 47 MSPs
Absent: 9 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-16511: That the Parliament notes the publication of the UK Government’s consultation and review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, which sets out that it will “not consider whether to repeal the UK Internal Market Act or any part of it”;
recalls that both the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd refused to give the Act legislative consent;
notes the position of the Welsh Government, which opposes the Act, believing it to be “an unwarranted attack on devolution”;
reaffirms its decision regarding the Act on 3 October 2023, and calls for it to be repealed.
Annotations
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Whip reports
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Overall counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 129 | 120 | 73 | 47 | 9 | 93.02% | 60.83% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | 64 | 62 | 62 | 0 | 2 | 96.88% | 100.00% |
| Opposition | 65 | 58 | 11 | 47 | 7 | 89.23% | 18.97% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 31 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 90.32% | 0.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Labour | 22 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 86.36% | 0.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 64 | 62 | 62 | 0 | 2 | 96.88% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Claire Baker | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christina McKelvie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | No | 100.00% |