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  Backbench Business - Voting by Prisoners
  
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  @ MP voted aye against prisoners voting.
  @ MP voted no in favour of prisoners voting.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against prisoners being able to vote; except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.
  
  The motion approved in this vote was:
  
  :That this House 
  :''notes'' the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirst_v_United_Kingdom_%28No_2%29 Hirst v . the United Kingdom] in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining a general restriction on the right of prisoners to vote; 
  :''acknowledges'' the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically-elected lawmakers; and 
  :''supports'' the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.
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