Scottish Parliament – Jan. 27, 2026 – 58
Amendment 33: Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 100 MSPs
No: 8 MSPs
Absent: 21 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Natural Environment (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 33 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 | 108 | 100 | 8 | 21 | 83.72% | 92.59% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 129 | 108 | 100 | 8 | 21 | 83.72% | 92.59% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 85.71% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 57 | 56 | 1 | 6 | 90.48% | 98.25% |
| Independent | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | 100.00% |
| Labour | 21 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 61.90% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 1.75% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 98.25% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |