Scottish Parliament – Sept. 25, 2025 – 2
Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 63 MSPs
No: 18 MSPs
Absent: 25 MSPs
Abstain: 23 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill
Nominal opposition: Government Aye Opposition Weak NoThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where the government is proposing a motion, but opposition is less strongly opposing it (higher numbers of absences).
This can reflect different views between opposition parties - where at least one party neither wants to be on the record as voting for or against.
Motion
Motion type: Other(?)
S6M-18687: That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill, agrees to any expenditure of a kind referred to in Rule 9.12.3A of the Parliament’s Standing Orders arising in consequence of the Act.
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 | 81 | 63 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 62.79% | 77.78% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 39.39% | 30.77% |
| Government | 63 | 55 | 55 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 0.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 55 | 55 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 87.30% | 100.00% |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Labour | 22 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 63.64% | 7.14% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | n/a |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Lord Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Abstain | 50.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Abstain | 50.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Abstain | 50.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Absent | n/a |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 7.14% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | No | 92.86% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Abstain | n/a |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Absent | n/a |