Scottish Parliament – March 18, 2026 – 17
Amendment 73: Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 97 MSPs
No: 16 MSPs
Absent: 16 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (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 73A 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 | 113 | 97 | 16 | 16 | 87.60% | 85.84% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 129 | 113 | 97 | 16 | 16 | 87.60% | 85.84% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 28 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 85.71% | 100.00% |
| Labour | 20 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 70.00% | 21.43% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 61 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 96.83% | 96.72% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80.00% | 100.00% |
| Independent | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 75.00% | 0.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 21.43% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Independent | No | n/a |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Independent | No | 3.28% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 21.43% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Fergus Ewing | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | No | n/a |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Independent | Aye | 96.72% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 21.43% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | No | 78.57% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Presiding Officer | Absent | n/a |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 3.28% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | No | n/a |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.72% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lord Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |