King's Speech (Motion for an Address): Amendment (k): how MPs voted on 23 July 2024
Division 4, 23 July 2024, 19:30. Noes 382, against 85; majority 297 (Commons Votes API).
The question
Amendment proposed: at the end of the Question to add:
“but, while welcoming measures aimed at upholding standards in public life, which have been neglected under UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments in recent years, humbly regret that the Gracious Speech does not include sufficient measures to address the crisis in health and care, such as the introduction of a legal right to see a GP within seven days, a guarantee for cancer patients to start treatment within 62 days from urgent referral, free personal care in England, better support for carers, and a cross-party commission on social care; and call on the Government to stop the scandal of sewage dumping against which the previous Government failed to take action, including by replacing Ofwat with a new regulator, to support families with the cost of living and to tackle poverty, including by introducing a national food strategy, extending free school meals to all children in poverty, and by scrapping the two-child benefit cap, to ensure that rural communities and farmers receive adequate support, and to reform the system for parliamentary elections by replacing first-past-the-post with proportional representation, so that every vote counts.”—(Christine Jardine.)
Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 33), That the amendment be made.
As printed in Hansard before the division.
By party
Liberal Democrat MPs cast 64 of the 85 named Aye votes; Labour MPs 367 of the 382 named No votes.
| Party | Aye (named) | No (named) |
|---|---|---|
| Labour | 0 | 367 |
| Liberal Democrat | 64 | 0 |
| Independent | 5 | 8 |
| Reform UK | 5 | 0 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 0 | 4 |
| Green Party | 4 | 0 |
| Plaid Cymru | 4 | 0 |
| Social Democratic & Labour Party | 2 | 1 |
| Alliance | 1 | 0 |
| Traditional Unionist Voice | 0 | 1 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 85 | 382 |
Tellers: Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) and Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat, Twickenham) (Ayes); Christian Wakeford (Labour, Bury South) and Taiwo Owatemi (Labour, Coventry North West) (Noes).
How each MP voted
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Sources
- Hansard: Immigration and Home Affairs
- Commons division 4
- Commons Votes API: division
26949c223e231eff15 October 2026 - Hansard API: division search
12d07eb2fa5d5e0d15 October 2026 - Hansard API: debate
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