Scotland Session S4 Status: Introduced

SP Bill 40 — Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill

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    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Scottish Parliament
  4. 4
    To Executive
  5. 5
    Enacted

This bill died with Session S4. It reached “Introduced” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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0 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 129 not signed on · 82 voted No

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Not signed on (129)

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Votes

Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill — S4M-13258

Failed 36 Yea · 82 Nay · 9 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 368209
Total 368209
% of votes cast 28%65%0%7%
How each member voted (127)
Member Party Vote
Adam, George — Yea
Adamson, Clare — Nay
Allan, Dr Alasdair — Nay
Allard, Christian — Nay
Baillie, Jackie — Nay
Baker, Claire — Nay
Baker, Richard — Nay
Baxter, Jayne — Yea
Beamish, Claudia — Yea
Beattie, Colin — Yea
Biagi, Marco — Yea
Bibby, Neil — Nay
Boyack, Sarah — Nay
Brodie, Chic — Nay
Brown, Gavin — Nay
Brown, Keith — Nay
Buchanan, Cameron — Nay
Burgess, Margaret — Nay
Campbell, Aileen — Not Voting
Campbell, Roderick — Yea
Carlaw, Jackson — Yea
Chisholm, Malcolm — Nay
Coffey, Willie — Nay
Constance, Angela — Nay
Crawford, Bruce — Nay
Cunningham, Roseanna — Nay
Davidson, Ruth — Nay
Dey, Graeme — Yea
Don, Nigel — Nay
Doris, Bob — Nay
Dornan, James — Yea
Dugdale, Kezia — Nay
Eadie, Jim — Yea
Ewing, Annabelle — Nay
Ewing, Fergus — Nay
Fabiani, Linda — Nay
Fee, Mary — Yea
Ferguson, Patricia — Not Voting
Fergusson, Alex — Nay
Findlay, Neil — Nay
Finnie, John — Yea
FitzPatrick, Joe — Yea
Fraser, Murdo — Nay
Gibson, Kenneth — Yea
Gibson, Rob — Yea
Goldie, Annabel — Nay
Grahame, Christine — Yea
Grant, Rhoda — Nay
Gray, Iain — Nay
Griffin, Mark — Nay
Harvie, Patrick — Yea
Henry, Hugh — Nay
Hepburn, Jamie — Nay
Hilton, Cara — Yea
Hume, Jim — Yea
Hyslop, Fiona — Nay
Ingram, Adam — Nay
Johnstone, Alex — Nay
Johnstone, Alison — Yea
Keir, Colin — Yea
Kelly, James — Nay
Kidd, Bill — Yea
Lamont, Johann — Nay
Lamont, John — Nay
Lochhead, Richard — Yea
Lyle, Richard — Nay
MacAskill, Kenny — Nay
MacDonald, Angus — Yea
MacDonald, Gordon — Yea
MacKenzie, Mike — Yea
Macdonald, Lewis — Nay
Macintosh, Ken — Nay
Mackay, Derek — Not Voting
Malik, Hanzala — Nay
Marra, Jenny — Nay
Martin, Paul — Nay
Mason, John — Nay
Matheson, Michael — Nay
Maxwell, Stewart — Yea
McAlpine, Joan — Not Voting
McArthur, Liam — Yea
McCulloch, Margaret — Nay
McDonald, Mark — Yea
McDougall, Margaret — Nay
McGrigor, Jamie — Nay
McInnes, Alison — Nay
McKelvie, Christina — Nay
McLeod, Aileen — Nay
McLeod, Fiona — Yea
McMahon, Michael — Nay
McMahon, Siobhan — Nay
McMillan, Stuart — Nay
McNeil, Duncan — Nay
McTaggart, Anne — Not Voting
Milne, Nanette — Nay
Mitchell, Margaret — Not Voting
Murray, Elaine — Yea
Neil, Alex — Not Voting
Paterson, Gil — Nay
Pearson, Graeme — Nay
Pentland, John — Nay
Rennie, Willie — Nay
Robertson, Dennis — Nay
Robison, Shona — Nay
Rowley, Alex — Nay
Russell, Michael — Nay
Salmond, Alex — Not Voting
Scanlon, Mary — Nay
Scott, John — Nay
Scott, Tavish — Yea
Simpson, Dr Richard — Nay
Smith, Drew — Nay
Smith, Elaine — Nay
Smith, Liz — Nay
Stevenson, Stewart — Nay
Stewart, David — Nay
Stewart, Kevin — Yea
Sturgeon, Nicola — Nay
Swinney, John — Nay
Thompson, Dave — Nay
Torrance, David — Yea
Urquhart, Jean — Yea
Watt, Maureen — Nay
Wheelhouse, Paul — Nay
White, Sandra — Not Voting
Wilson, John — Yea
Yousaf, Humza — Nay

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