MSPs have backed a call from John Swinney to demand the UK Government reverses its “damaging” decision to introduce means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.
A motion tabled by the First Minister passed with 99 votes, while just 14 MSPs opposed it.
Two Labour MSPs rebelled and voted in favour of Swinney's motion – former party leader Richard Leonard MSP and Alex Rowley MSP.
Labour MSPs Monica Lennon, Carol Mochan, Pauline McNeill, Rhoda Grant and Katy Clark did not vote.
All of the MSPs to oppose the motion tabled by First Minister John Swinney came from Scottish Labour.
The full list of MSPs who voted in favour for the motion is below.
- Adam, George (Paisley) (SNP)
- Adamson, Clare (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)
- Allan, Alasdair (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
- Arthur, Tom (Renfrewshire South) (SNP)
- Balfour, Jeremy (Lothian) (Con)
- Beattie, Colin (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) (SNP)
- Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con)
- Brown, Keith (Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) (SNP)
- Brown, Siobhian (Ayr) (SNP)
- Burgess, Ariane (Highlands and Islands) (Green)
- Burnett, Alexander (Aberdeenshire West) (Con)
- Carlaw, Jackson (Eastwood) (Con)
- Carson, Finlay (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con)
- Chapman, Maggie (North East Scotland) (Green)
- Coffey, Willie (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP)
- Cole-Hamilton, Alex (Edinburgh Western) (LD)
- Constance, Angela (Almond Valley) (SNP)
- Dey, Graeme (Angus South) (SNP)
- Don-Innes, Natalie (Renfrewshire North and West) (SNP)
- Doris, Bob (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP)
- Dornan, James (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP)
- Dowey, Sharon (South Scotland) (Con)
- Dunbar, Jackie (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
- Eagle, Tim (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
- Ewing, Annabelle (Cowdenbeath) (SNP)
- Ewing, Fergus (Inverness and Nairn) (SNP)
- Fairlie, Jim (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP)
- Findlay, Russell (West Scotland) (Con)
- FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
- Forbes, Kate (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) (SNP)
- Fraser, Murdo (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
- Gallacher, Meghan (Central Scotland) (Con)
- Gibson, Kenneth (Cunninghame North) (SNP)
- Gilruth, Jenny (Mid Fife and Glenrothes) (SNP)
- Golden, Maurice (North East Scotland) (Con)
- Gosal, Pam (West Scotland) (Con)
- Gougeon, Mairi (Angus North and Mearns) (SNP)
- Grahame, Christine (Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale) (SNP)
- Gray, Neil (Airdrie and Shotts) (SNP)
- Greer, Ross (West Scotland) (Green)
- Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
- Hamilton, Rachael (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con)
- Harper, Emma (South Scotland) (SNP)
- Harvie, Patrick (Glasgow) (Green)
- Haughey, Clare (Rutherglen) (SNP)
- Hepburn, Jamie (Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) (SNP)
- Hyslop, Fiona (Linlithgow) (SNP)
- Kerr, Liam (North East Scotland) (Con)
- Kerr, Stephen (Central Scotland) (Con)
- Kidd, Bill (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)
- Leonard, Richard (Central Scotland) (Lab)
- Lochhead, Richard (Moray) (SNP)
- Lumsden, Douglas (North East Scotland) (Con)
- MacDonald, Gordon (Edinburgh Pentlands) (SNP)
- MacGregor, Fulton (Coatbridge and Chryston) (SNP)
- Mackay, Gillian (Central Scotland) (Green)
- Mackay, Rona (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP)
- Macpherson, Ben (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (SNP)
- Martin, Gillian (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP)
- Mason, John (Glasgow Shettleston) (Ind)
- Matheson, Michael (Falkirk West) (SNP)
- McAllan, Màiri (Clydesdale) (SNP) Proxy vote cast by Jamie Hepburn
- McArthur, Liam (Orkney Islands) (LD)
- McCall, Roz (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
- McKee, Ivan (Glasgow Provan) (SNP)
- McKelvie, Christina (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) Proxy vote cast by Jamie Hepburn
- McLennan, Paul (East Lothian) (SNP)
- McMillan, Stuart (Greenock and Inverclyde) (SNP)
- McNair, Marie (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP)
- Minto, Jenni (Argyll and Bute) (SNP)
- Mountain, Edward (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
- Mundell, Oliver (Dumfriesshire) (Con)
- Nicoll, Audrey (Aberdeen South and North Kincardine) (SNP)
- Regan, Ash (Edinburgh Eastern) (Alba)
- Rennie, Willie (North East Fife) (LD)
- Robertson, Angus (Edinburgh Central) (SNP)
- Robison, Shona (Dundee City East) (SNP)
- Roddick, Emma (Highlands and Islands) (SNP)
- Ross, Douglas (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
- Rowley, Alex (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)
- Ruskell, Mark (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green)
- Slater, Lorna (Lothian) (Green)
- Smith, Liz (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
- Somerville, Shirley-Anne (Dunfermline) (SNP)
- Stevenson, Collette (East Kilbride) (SNP)
- Stewart, Alexander (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)
- Stewart, Kaukab (Glasgow Kelvin) (SNP)
- Stewart, Kevin (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)
- Sturgeon, Nicola (Glasgow Southside) (SNP)
- Swinney, John (Perthshire North) (SNP)
- Thomson, Michelle (Falkirk East) (SNP)
- Todd, Maree (Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) (SNP)
- Torrance, David (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)
- Wells, Annie (Glasgow) (Con)
- White, Tess (North East Scotland) (Con)
- Whitham, Elena (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP)
- Whittle, Brian (South Scotland) (Con)
- Wishart, Beatrice (Shetland Islands) (LD) Proxy vote cast by Alex Cole-Hamilton
- Yousaf, Humza (Glasgow Pollok) (SNP)
The full list of MSPs who voted against is below.
- Baillie, Jackie (Dumbarton) (Lab)
- Baker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab)
- Bibby, Neil (West Scotland) (Lab)
- Boyack, Sarah (Lothian) (Lab)
- Choudhury, Foysol (Lothian) (Lab)
- Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Glasgow) (Lab)
- Griffin, Mark (Central Scotland) (Lab)
- Johnson, Daniel (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab)
- Marra, Michael (North East Scotland) (Lab)
- O'Kane, Paul (West Scotland) (Lab)
- Sarwar, Anas (Glasgow) (Lab)
- Smyth, Colin (South Scotland) (Lab)
- Sweeney, Paul (Glasgow) (Lab)
- Whitfield, Martin (South Scotland) (Lab)
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