Scottish Parliament – Jan. 6, 2026 – 1
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee's 9th Report, 2025 (Session 6) (Amendment 1)
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 19 MSPs
No: 88 MSPs
Absent: 16 MSPs
Abstain: 6 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Strong conflict: Gov proposesThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where the government is proposing a motion and the opposition is strongly opposing it (few defections, high turnout).
This usually suggests an important point of principle, that even if the government is likely to win, is a significant public signal of opposition.
Motion
Motion type: Amendment(?)
S6M-20269.1: As an amendment to motion S6M-20269 in the name of Martin Whitfield (Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee's 9th Report, 2025 (Session 6)), leave out from "to impose" to end and insert “that no further action should be taken.”
Original motion(S6M-20269): That the Parliament notes the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee’s 9th Report, 2025 (Session 6), Complaint against Ash Regan MSP (SP Paper 945), and agrees to impose the sanction recommended in the report that Ash Regan MSP be excluded from all meetings of the Parliament and its committees for two sitting days, with those sitting days being the next Wednesday and the next Thursday following the agreement of this motion.
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 | 107 | 19 | 88 | 6 | 16 | 82.95% | 17.76% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 129 | 107 | 19 | 88 | 6 | 16 | 82.95% | 17.76% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 82.14% | 47.83% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 57 | 4 | 53 | 0 | 6 | 90.48% | 7.02% |
| Labour | 21 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 66.67% | 14.29% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80.00% | 0.00% |
| Independent | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Abstain | 97.83% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 14.29% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 7.02% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 7.02% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Abstain | 97.83% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Abstain | 64.29% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Abstain | 64.29% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Abstain | 97.83% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 14.29% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 7.02% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 47.83% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 92.98% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Aye | 7.02% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Abstain | 64.29% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | No | 52.17% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | No | 85.71% |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |