Votes · March 2026 · Opposition day motion

Opposition Day: Oil and gas: how MPs voted on 24 March 2026

Division 459, 24 March 2026, 16:00. The Commons Votes API gives 108 Ayes, 297 Noes: majority 189 for the Noes.

The question

That this House calls on the Government to remove the Energy Profits Levy, end the ban on new oil and gas licences and approve the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields to increase secure domestic energy supply; recognises that the North Sea provides half of the UK’s gas supply, supports 200,000 skilled jobs across the UK and generates billions of pounds in tax revenue; further recognises that three quarters of the UK’s energy needs are met by oil and gas, that the UK will continue to use oil and gas for decades, and that the North Sea is the UK’s most secure and lowest-carbon source of oil and gas; notes that without action to make the sector more investable, the UK risks importing 82% of its gas by 2035 at higher cost and with higher emissions; and further notes that independent analysis by Stifel shows that the Energy Profits Levy will cost the Treasury more than it raises and that reforming it would generate an additional £25 billion in tax revenues within 10 years.

As printed in Hansard before the division.

By party

Conservative MPs cast 98 of the 108 named Aye votes; Labour MPs 283 of the 296 named No votes.

Tellers: Rebecca Paul (Conservative, Reigate) and Gregory Stafford (Conservative, Farnham and Bordon) (Ayes); Stephen Morgan (Labour, Portsmouth South) and Taiwo Owatemi (Labour, Coventry North West) (Noes).

How each MP voted

404 named · CSV

Sources

• Hansard: Oil and Gas
• Commons division 459
• Commons Votes API: division c61737fc20f65baa 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: division search 512702e6682b2161 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: debate 9ccaf3b4c13e14a9 15 October 2026

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