Assisted dying bill: How MPs in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire voted

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Demonstrators gathered outside Parliament showing support for the assisted dying bill. Credit: PA

Moves to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales have taken a step forward after a historic vote by MPs.

A majority of MPs backed a private members' bill brought by the Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater to give adults with less than six months to live the right to choose to end their own lives.

A a total of 330 MPs voted for the bill and 275 voted against on Friday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was among those to vote in favour, along with the majority of his Cabinet, as well as former PM Rishi Sunak, who was one of only 23 Tories to do so.

Among the 15 Cabinet members to back the bill were West Yorkshire MPs Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Eight voted against.

Crowds of supporters surrounded and hugged Ms Leadbeater outside Parliament after the vote.

She said: “It’s been tough, you know, these families have campaigned on this issue for years.

“I know what it means to people, if we hadn’t achieved what we achieved today I’d have let them down.

“I’m also really proud and really pleased that we had a very respectful debate in Parliament.

“It was robust but it was compassionate. Lots of people with different views, and I think Parliament showed itself in its best light today, and I’m very proud of that.”

Now it has passed this first stage in the Commons, the bill will go to committee stage, where MPs can table amendments, before facing further scrutiny and votes in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Any change in the law would not be agreed until next year at the earliest.

How did MPs in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire vote? (Listed in constituencies' alphabetical order)

For: 

  • Dan Jarvis, Labour (Barnsley North)

  • Richard Tice, Reform UK (Boston and Skegness)

  • Paul Davies, Labour (Colne Valley)

  • Lee Pitcher, Labour (Doncaster East and Isle of Axholme)

  • Ed Miliband, Labour (Doncaster North)

  • David Davis, Conservative (Goole and Pocklington)

  • Melanie Onn, Labour (Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes)

  • Kate Dearden, Labour (Halifax)

  • Tom Gordon, Liberal Democrats (Harrogate and Knaresborough)

  • Harpreet Uppal, Labour (Huddersfield)

  • Karl Turner, Labour (Kingston upon Hull East)

  • Diana Johnson, Labour (Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)

  • Fabian Hamilton, Labour (Leeds East)

  • Katie White, Labour (Leeds North West)

  • Hilary Benn, Labour (Leeds South)

  • Mark Sewards, Labour (Leeds South West and Morley)

  • Rachel Reeves, Labour (Leeds West and Pudsey)

  • Hamish Falconer, Labour (Lincoln)

  • Victoria Atkins, Conservative (Louth and Horncastle)

  • Jade Botterill, Labour (Ossett and Denby Dale)

  • Marie Tidball, Labour (Penistone and Stocksbridge)

  • Yvette Cooper, Labour (Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)

  • Rishi Sunak, Conservative (Richmond and Northallerton)

  • Jake Richards, Labour (Rother Valley)

  • Sarah Champion, Labour (Rotherham)

  • Alison Hume, Labour (Scarborough and Whitby)

  • Nicholas Dakin, Labour (Scunthorpe)

  • Keir Mather, Labour (Selby)

  • Olivia Blake, Labour (Sheffield Hallam)

  • Louise Haigh, Labour (Sheffield Heeley)

  • Clive Betts, Labour (Sheffield South East)

  • Kim Leadbeater, Labour (Spen Valley)

  • Kevin Hollinrake, Conservative (Thirsk and Malton)

  • Simon Lightwood, Labour (Wakefield and Rothwell)

  • Luke Charters, Labour (York Outer)

  • Alicia Kearns, Conservative (Rutland and Stamford)

Against:

  • Stepahnie Peacock, Labour (Barnsley South)

  • Stuart Graham, Conservative (Beverley and Holderness)

  • Imran Hussain, Independent (Bradford East)

  • Naz Shah, Labour (Bradford West)

  • Vickers Martin, Conservative (Brigg and Immingham)

  • Iqbal Mohammed, Independent (Dewsbury and Batley)

  • Sally Jameson, Labour (Doncaster Central)

  • Edward Lee, Conservative (Gainsborough)

  • Gareth Davies, Conservative (Grantham and Bourne)

  • Robbie Moore, Conservative (Keighley and Ilkley)

  • Richard Burgen, Independent (Leeds East)

  • Jon Trickett, Labour (Normanton and Hemsworth)

  • Gill Furniss, Labour (Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough)

  • Abitisam Mohamed, Labour (Sheffield Central) 

  • Anna Dixon, Labour (Shipley)

  • Julian Smith, Conservative (Skipton and Ripon)

  • Caroline Johnson, Conservative (Sleaford and North Hykeham)

  • John Hayes, Conservative (South Holland and Deepings)

  • Alec Shelbrooke, Conservative (Wetherby and Easingwold)

  • Rachael Maskell, Labour (York Central)

Did not vote:

  • Judith Cummins, Labour (Bradford South)

  • Charlie Dewhirst, Conservative (Bridlington and the Wolds)

  • Josh Fenton-Glynn, Labour (Calder Valley)

  • Alex Sobel, Labour (Leeds Central and Headingley)

For and Against (active abstention):

  • Emma Hardy, Labour (Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)