LABOUR MPs abstained as the SNP won a vote in the Commons today calling for compensation for Waspi women.
Stephen Flynn used Parliament’s 10-minute rule to introduce a bill which would force the Government to pay women who were unaware of rushed changes to the state pension age between £1000 to £2950.
He won by 105 votes in favour with no MPs voting against.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman last year recommended women be compensated after finding that the Government had failed to properly communicate the equalisation of the state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
Despite campaigning with Waspi women in opposition, Labour ruled out compensation after coming to power, saying it would be too expensive.
But Scottish Labour were put in a difficult position after Anas Sarwar’s MSPs voted to urge the UK Government to compensate Waspi women.
It meant that Scottish Labour MPs were faced with the option of going against their Holyrood comrades, going against the UK Government, or abstaining.
On Tuesday afternoon, Flynn was granted permission to bring forward his bill, with Labour MPs mostly abstaining.
Here’s how Scottish MPs voted:
Aye
Alister Carmichael, LibDem, Orkney and Shetland
Angus MacDonald, LibDem, Inverness, Skye and Ross-shire
Brian Leishman, Labour, Alloa and Grangemouth
Chris Law, SNP, Dundee Central
Christine Jardine, LibDem, Edinburgh West
Dave Doogan, SNP, Angus and Perthshire Glens
Graham Leadbitter, SNP, Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
Kirsty Blackman, SNP, Aberdeen North
Pete Wishart, SNP, Perth and Kinross-shire
Seamus Logan, SNP, Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
Stephen Flynn, SNP, Aberdeen South
Stephen Gethins, SNP, Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
Susan Murray, LibDem, East Dunbartonshire
No vote recorded
Alan Gemmell, Labour, Central Ayrshire
Alison Taylor, Labour, Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Andrew Bowie, Conservative, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Blair McDougall, Labour, East Renfrewshire
Brendan O’Hara, SNP, Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber (was a teller for the noes to facilitate a vote)
Chris Murray, Labour, Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
David Mundell, Conservative, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Douglas Alexander, Labour, Lothian East
Douglas McAllister, Labour, West Dunbartonshire
Elaine Stewart, Labour, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Euan Stainbank, Labour, Falkirk
Frank McNally, Labour, Coatbridge and Bellshill
Gordon McKee, Labour, Glasgow South
Graeme Downie, Labour, Dunfermline and Dollar
Gregor Poynton, Labour, Livingston
Harriet Cross, Conservative, Gordon and Buchan
Ian Murray, Labour, Edinburgh South
Irene Campbell, Labour, North Ayrshire and Arran
Jamie Stone, LibDem, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Joani Reid, Labour, East Kilbride and Strathaven
Johanna Baxter, Labour, Paisley and Renfrewshire South
John Cooper, Conservative, Dumfries and Galloway
John Grady, Labour, Glasgow East
John Lamont, Conservative, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Katrina Murray, Labour, Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
Kenneth Stevenson, Labour, Airdrie and Shotts
Kirsteen Sullivan, Labour, Bathgate and Linlithgow
Kirsty McNeill, Labour, Midlothian
Martin McCluskey, Labour, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West
Martin Rhodes, Labour, Glasgow North
Maureen Burke, Labour, Glasgow North East
Melanie Ward, Labour, Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Pamela Nash, Labour, Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
Patricia Ferguson, Labour, Glasgow West
Richard Baker, Labour, Glenrothes and Mid Fife
Scott Arthur Labour, Edinburgh South West
Torcuil Crichton, Labour, Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Tracy Gilbert, Labour, Edinburgh North and Leith
Wendy Chamberlain, Liberal Democrat, North East Fife
Zubir Ahmed, Labour, Glasgow South West
