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 | 64 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 5 | 92.19% | 1.69% |
| Opposition | 65 | 56 | 47 | 9 | 9 | 86.15% | 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 | 64 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 5 | 92.19% | 1.69% |
| Labour | 22 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 95.45% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 40.00% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Graeme Dey | 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% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| 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% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | 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% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Christina McKelvie | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | 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% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | 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% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | 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% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.69% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Rona Mackay | 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% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| 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% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | 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 |