Scottish Parliament – Sept. 16, 2025 – 4
Amendment 63: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 50 MSPs
No: 64 MSPs
Absent: 15 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 63 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 | 114 | 50 | 64 | 15 | 88.37% | 43.86% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 55 | 48 | 7 | 11 | 83.33% | 87.27% |
| Government | 63 | 59 | 2 | 57 | 4 | 93.65% | 3.39% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 59 | 2 | 57 | 4 | 93.65% | 3.39% |
| Labour | 22 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 81.82% | 100.00% |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 85.71% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 3.39% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 3.39% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 96.61% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Absent | n/a |