Scottish Parliament – June 26, 2025 – 1
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - UK Legislation
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 86 MSPs
Absent: 15 MSPs
Abstain: 28 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (2025)
Cross party ayeThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where there is a cross party consensus in favour of a motion.
There may be scattered opposition (which is why a vote is being held at all), but it does not break down clearly along government/opposition lines.
Motion
Motion type: Other(?)
S6M-18076: That the Parliament agrees that the relevant provisions in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 30 January 2025, relating to the provision and sharing of trailer registration information (amended clauses 30 to 33), the provision of biometric information at ports in Scotland (clause 36), the repeal of certain provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 (clause 38), the detention and exercise of functions pending deportation (clause 41), powers to take biometric information at detention centres (clause 44), offences relating to articles for use in serious crime (clauses 49 and 50), applicants for making of orders and interim orders (clause 54), and the validation of fees charged in relation to qualifications (clause 57), so far as these matters fall within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and alter the executive competence of the Scottish Ministers, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
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 | 129 | 86 | 86 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 66.67% | 100.00% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 46.97% | 100.00% |
| Government | 63 | 55 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 87.30% | 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 | 63 | 55 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 87.30% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Labour | 23 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 86.96% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 80.00% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Fergus Ewing | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Lord Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Alba | Abstain | 50.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| John Mason | Independent | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Presiding Officer | Absent | n/a |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |