Scottish Parliament – May 20, 2025 – 3
Amendment 135: Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 48 MSPs
No: 67 MSPs
Absent: 14 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
Strong conflict: Opposition proposesThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where the opposition has proposed a motion and the government is strongly opposing it (few defections, high turnout).
This usually suggests an important point of principle, or that it would have substantive effects if passed.
Motion
Motion type: Amendment(?)
The question is, that amendment 135 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Annotations
No annotations for this decision.
Whip reports
No whip reports for this decision.
Overall counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 129 | 115 | 48 | 67 | 14 | 89.15% | 41.74% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | 63 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 4 | 93.65% | 1.69% |
| Opposition | 66 | 56 | 47 | 9 | 10 | 84.85% | 83.93% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 30 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 4 | 86.67% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 4 | 93.65% | 1.69% |
| Labour | 23 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 91.30% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 40.00% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.69% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |