PLANS to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales have cleared their first parliamentary stages.
MPs voted to pass the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by 330 to 275, a majority of 55 votes.
But Scottish MPs bucked the trend, with most voting against the plans.
Members were given a free vote in a rare Friday Commons session, which saw impassioned speeches on both sides.
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Scottish MPs voted against the bill with 29 opposed, 17 for. There were 11 abstentions, including the SNP – who sat out the debate on the grounds it did not affect Scots – and ministers who were abroad.
Full list of how Scottish MPs voted on assisted dying
- Aberdeen North, Kirsty Blackman – abstained
- Aberdeen South, Stephen Flynn – abstained
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, Seamus Logan – abstained
- Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, Andrew Bowie – against
- Airdrie and Shotts, Kenneth Stevenson – against
- Alloa and Grangemouth, Brian Leishman – against
- Angus and Perthshire Glens, Dave Doogan – abstained
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, Stephen Gethins – abstained
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber, Brendan O’Hara – abstained
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, Elaine Stewart – for
- Bathgate and Linlithgow, Kirsteen Sullivan – against
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, John Lamont – against
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Jamie Stone – against
- Central Ayrshire, Alan Gemmell – for
- Coatbridge and Bellshill, Frank McNally – against
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, Melanie Ward – against
- Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch, Katrina Murray – against
- Dumfries and Galloway, John Cooper – against
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, David Mundell – against
- Dundee Central, Chris Law – abstained
- Dunfermline and Dollar, Graeme Downie – for
- East Kilbride and Strathaven, Joani Reid – for
- East Lothian, Douglas Alexander – abstained
- East Renfrewshire, Blair McDougall – against
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Chris Murray – for
- Edinburgh North and Leith, Tracy Gilbert – for
- Edinburgh South West, Scott Arthur – against
- Edinburgh South, Ian Murray – abstained (abroad but has said he would vote for the bill)
- Edinburgh West, Christine Jardine – for
- Falkirk, Euan Stainbank – for
- Glasgow East, John Grady – against
- Glasgow North East, Maureen Burke – for
- Glasgow North, Martin Rhodes – against
- Glasgow South West, Zubir Ahmed – against
- Glasgow South, Gordon McKee – against
- Glasgow West, Patricia Ferguson – against
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife, Richard Baker – against
- Gordon and Buchan, Harriet Cross – against
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley, Imogen Walker – against
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West, Martin McCluskey – against
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, Angus MacDonald – against
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Lillian Jones – against
- Livingston, Gregor Poynton – for
- Mid Dunbartonshire, Susan Murray – for
- Midlothian, Kirsty McNeill – for
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey, Graham Leadbitter – abstained
- Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke, Pamela Nash – for
- Na h-Eileanan An Iar (Western Isles), Torcuil Crichton – against
- North Ayrshire and Arran, Irene Campbell – for
- North East Fife, Wendy Chamberlain – for
- Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael – for
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North, Johanna Baxter – against
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South, Alison Taylor – against
- Perth and Kinross-shire, Pete Wishart – abstained
- Rutherglen, Michael Shanks – against
- Stirling and Strathallan, Chris Kane – for
- West Dunbartonshire, Douglas McAllister – against
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