Scottish Parliament – Sept. 16, 2025 – 2
Amendment 96: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 40 MSPs
No: 58 MSPs
Absent: 14 MSPs
Abstain: 17 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (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 96 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 | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 129 | 98 | 40 | 58 | 17 | 14 | 75.97% | 40.82% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 39 | 39 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 59.09% | 100.00% |
| Government | 63 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 4 | 93.65% | 1.69% |
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 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 4 | 93.65% | 1.69% |
| Labour | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 92.86% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.69% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Abstain | n/a |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.31% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |