Health and Personal Social Services

Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons at 5:53 pm on 27 April 2021.

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  • Division number 280
    A majority of MPs voted in favour of empowering a UK minister to act to ensure legal high-quality abortion and post-abortion care in Northern Ireland and to protect women from harassment by anti-abortion protesters.

That the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 365), dated 22 March 2021, a copy of which was laid before this House on 23 March, be approved.—(Rebecca Harris)

Division number 280 Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021

A majority of MPs voted in favour of empowering a UK minister to act to ensure legal high-quality abortion and post-abortion care in Northern Ireland and to protect women from harassment by anti-abortion protesters.

Aye: 430 MPs

No: 90 MPs

Aye: A-Z by last name

Tellers

No: A-Z by last name

Tellers

Absent: 123 MPs

Absent: A-Z by last name

The House divided: Ayes 431, Noes 89.

Question accordingly agreed to.

The list of Members currently certified as eligible for a proxy vote, and of the Members nominated as their proxy, is published at the end of today’s debates.