Scottish Parliament – Sept. 16, 2025 – 6
Amendment 64: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 58 MSPs
No: 56 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 64 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 | 58 | 56 | 15 | 88.37% | 50.88% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | 63 | 58 | 2 | 56 | 5 | 92.06% | 3.45% |
| Opposition | 66 | 56 | 56 | 0 | 10 | 84.85% | 100.00% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 28 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 89.29% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 58 | 2 | 56 | 5 | 92.06% | 3.45% |
| 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% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 3.45% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 3.45% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 96.55% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |