text_body: --- DIVISION TITLE ---
  
  Record Copies of Acts
  
  --- MOTION EFFECT ---
  
  Those voting Aye were supporting a committee recommendation that the official record copy of every act of Parliament be printed on acid-free record paper. Those voting No were rejecting the recommendation and retaining the present system whereby record copies of Acts are printed on vellum. The campaign for a 'No' vote was led by Brian White, Labour MP for North East Milton Keynes, in whose constituency the vellum manufacturer was based.
  
  This was a House of Commons matter and therefore a free vote, although the change would have saved money and the government therefore endorsed the recommendations of the committee.
  
  --- COMMENTS AND NOTES ---
  
  Although the government has not been defeated on a whipped vote, this marked the first government defeat on an unwhipped vote since 1997.