Alison Johnstone
Green
There are five questions to be put as a result of today’s business. The first question is, that motion S6M-09710, in the name of Emma Roddick, on the Illegal Migration Bill, which is United Kingdom legislation, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
There will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.
17:01 Meeting suspended.
17:04 On resuming—
The question is, that motion S6M-09710, in the name of Emma Roddick, on the Illegal Migration Bill, which is UK legislation, be agreed to. Members should cast their votes now.
Division number 2
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 83, Against 28, Abstentions 0.
Motion agreed to,
That the Parliament agrees that the UK Government’s Illegal Migration Bill will negatively affect all those seeking asylum in the UK; notes that clauses 23 and 27 of the Bill together will amend the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015, by placing a restriction on the powers of the Scottish Ministers and removing the entitlement for victims of human trafficking and exploitation to access Scottish Government-funded support services if they have arrived in the UK through irregular means after 7 March 2023; further notes that the Bill’s provisions are likely to impact on the ability to support potential victims of human trafficking and, therefore, will impact on the delivery of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy and efforts to eliminate human trafficking, as victims may actively avoid identification and associated risks of removal from the UK, and acknowledges that the Scottish Government has not been permitted to lodge a Legislative Consent Memorandum on the UK Government’s Illegal Migration Bill in the Scottish Parliament.
I remind members that, if the amendment in the name of Donald Cameron is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Neil Bibby will fall.
The next question is, that amendment S6M-09711.3, in the name of Donald Cameron, which seeks to amend motion S6M-09711, in the name of Angus Robertson, on building a new Scotland—the constitution of an independent country, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 3
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 31, Against 80, Abstentions 0
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Amendment disagreed to.
The next question is, that amendment S6M-09711.2, in the name of Neil Bibby, which seeks to amend motion S6M-09711, in the name of Angus Robertson, on building a new Scotland—the constitution of an independent country, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 4
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 44, Against 64, Abstentions 3.
Amendment disagreed to.
The next question is, that motion S6M-09711, in the name of Angus Robertson, on building a new Scotland—the constitution of an independent country, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
The Presiding Officer:
There will be a division.
Division number 5
Decision Time
The Presiding Officer:
The result of the division is: For 64, Against 47, Abstentions 0.
Motion agreed to,
That the Parliament welcomes the publication of
Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland and the opportunity that it sets out for the people of Scotland to directly shape a new, modern and more democratic country with constitutional safeguards for human rights and based on the constitutional tradition of the sovereignty of the people.
The final question is, that motion S6M-09709, in the name of Richard Lochhead, on the Electronic Trade Documents Bill, which is United Kingdom legislation, be agreed to.
Motion agreed to,
That the Parliament agrees that the relevant provisions of the Electronic Trade Documents Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 12 October 2022 and subsequently amended, so far as these matters fall within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament or alter the executive competence of the Scottish Ministers, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
That concludes decision time.
Members’ business will be published tomorrow, Wednesday 28 June 2023, as soon as the text is available.
