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A Migration System that Works for Scotland - Amendment 1

  • Submitted by: Liz Smith, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2025
  • Motion reference: S6M-17906.1
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, 12 June 2025

As an amendment to motion S6M-17906 in the name of Kate Forbes (A Migration System that Works for Scotland), leave out from first “notes” to end and insert “believes that there is an important policy balance to be struck between welcoming those migrants who make significant contributions to the economic, social and cultural life of the UK, and reducing the numbers of illegal migrants who place added pressures on the welfare system and public services, and believes that the future of migration policy across the UK should reflect the specific needs of different sectors of the labour market.”

Vote

Result 24 for, 84 against, 0 abstained, 21 did not vote Vote Defeated

Scottish National Party

For
  • Whitham, Elena
Against
  • Adam, Karen
  • Allan, Dr Alasdair
  • Arthur, Tom
  • Beattie, Colin
  • Brown, Siobhian
  • Callaghan, Stephanie
  • Coffey, Willie
  • Constance, Angela
  • Dey, Graeme
  • Don-Innes, Natalie
  • Doris, Bob
  • Dunbar, Jackie
  • Ewing, Annabelle
  • Ewing, Fergus
  • Fairlie, Jim
  • FitzPatrick, Joe
  • Forbes, Kate
  • Gibson, Kenneth
  • Gilruth, Jenny
  • Gougeon, Mairi
  • Grahame, Christine
  • Gray, Neil
  • Harper, Emma
  • Haughey, Clare
  • Hepburn, Jamie
  • Hyslop, Fiona
  • Kidd, Bill
  • Lochhead, Richard
  • MacDonald, Gordon
  • Mackay, Rona
  • Macpherson, Ben
  • Maguire, Ruth
  • Martin, Gillian
  • Matheson, Michael
  • McAllan, Màiri
  • McKee, Ivan
  • McLennan, Paul
  • McMillan, Stuart
  • McNair, Marie
  • Minto, Jenni
  • Nicoll, Audrey
  • Robertson, Angus
  • Robison, Shona
  • Roddick, Emma
  • Somerville, Shirley-Anne
  • Stevenson, Collette
  • Stewart, Kaukab
  • Stewart, Kevin
  • Sturgeon, Nicola
  • Thomson, Michelle
  • Todd, Maree
  • Torrance, David
  • Tweed, Evelyn
  • Yousaf, Humza
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Adam, George
  • Adamson, Clare
  • Brown, Keith
  • Dornan, James
  • MacGregor, Fulton
  • Swinney, John

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

For
  • Balfour, Jeremy
  • Briggs, Miles
  • Burnett, Alexander
  • Carlaw, Jackson
  • Carson, Finlay
  • Dowey, Sharon
  • Fraser, Murdo
  • Gallacher, Meghan
  • Golden, Maurice
  • Gosal, Pam
  • Gulhane, Sandesh
  • Halcro Johnston, Jamie
  • Hoy, Craig
  • Kerr, Liam
  • Lumsden, Douglas
  • McCall, Roz
  • Mountain, Edward
  • Mundell, Oliver
  • Simpson, Graham
  • Smith, Liz
  • Webber, Sue
  • Wells, Annie
  • White, Tess
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Eagle, Tim
  • Findlay, Russell
  • Hamilton, Rachael
  • Kerr, Stephen
  • Ross, Douglas
  • Stewart, Alexander
  • Whittle, Brian

Scottish Labour

For
0
Against
  • Baillie, Jackie
  • Baker, Claire
  • Boyack, Sarah
  • Choudhury, Foysol
  • Clark, Katy
  • Duncan-Glancy, Pam
  • Griffin, Mark
  • Johnson, Daniel
  • Lennon, Monica
  • Leonard, Richard
  • Marra, Michael
  • McNeill, Pauline
  • Mochan, Carol
  • Russell, Davy
  • Sarwar, Anas
  • Smyth, Colin
  • Sweeney, Paul
  • Villalba, Mercedes
  • Whitfield, Martin
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Bibby, Neil
  • Grant, Rhoda
  • O'Kane, Paul
  • Rowley, Alex

Scottish Green Party

For
0
Against
  • Burgess, Ariane
  • Chapman, Maggie
  • Greer, Ross
  • Mackay, Gillian
  • Ruskell, Mark
  • Slater, Lorna
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Harvie, Patrick

Scottish Liberal Democrats

For
0
Against
  • Cole-Hamilton, Alex
  • Greene, Jamie
  • McArthur, Liam
  • Rennie, Willie
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Wishart, Beatrice

No Party Affiliation

For
0
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Johnstone, Alison

Independent

For
0
Against
  • Mason, John
Abstained
0
Did not vote
0

Alba Party

For
0
Against
0
Abstained
0
Did not vote
  • Regan, Ash

Related motion

Motion ref. S6M-17906

A Migration System that Works for Scotland

Submitted by: Kate Forbes, Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Supported by: Tom Arthur, Richard Lochhead, Paul McLennan, Shirley-Anne Somerville, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, June 12, 2025

Amendments that have not been voted on

Motion ref. S6M-17906.2

A Migration System that Works for Scotland - Amendment 2 - Amendment

Submitted by: Michael Marra, North East Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, June 12, 2025