division_name: Backbench Business &#8212; [20th Allotted Day] &#8212; Voting by Prisoners
motion: <p class="" pid="b.493.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.493.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in 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.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.582.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 234, Noes 22.</p>