Speaker’s Statement

– in the House of Commons at on 10 September 2021.

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  • Division number 64
    A majority of MPs voted not to hold a private session of the House of Commons.

Photo of Lindsay Hoyle Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, House of Commons Commission, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Before we start proceedings today, I remind the House that tomorrow the world will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. I know that colleagues will join with me in remembering the victims of those horrific attacks, and our thoughts will be with the families and loved ones of all those who died.

Photo of Andrew Bowie Andrew Bowie Conservative, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

I beg to move, That the House sit in private.

Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163).

Division number 64 Motion to Sit in Private

A majority of MPs voted not to hold a private session of the House of Commons.

Aye: 1 MP

No: 44 MPs

Aye: A-Z by last name

Tellers

No: A-Z by last name

Tellers

Absent: 601 MPs

Absent: A-Z by last name

The House divided: Ayes 1, Noes 43.

Question accordingly negatived.