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% |
| Labour | 23 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 91.30% | 100.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 4 | 93.65% | 1.69% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 40.00% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| 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% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | 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% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Mark Griffin | 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% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| 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 |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.69% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Paul Sweeney | 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% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| 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% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |