Vote · 29 Oct 2026
Strengthening Scotland's Public Health Approach to Preventing Alcohol and Drug Deaths
* The published record for this division lists only MSPs who voted. Non-voters are inferred from who held a seat that day; the Presiding Officer normally does not vote.
Motion text
As an amendment to motion S7M-01766 in the name of Maree Todd (Strengthening Scotland's Public Health Approach to Preventing Alcohol and Drug Deaths), insert at end "; notes that the drug-misuse death rate, as reported by the National Records of Scotland, is over 10 times higher in the most deprived areas than in the least deprived areas; regards this as evidence that working-class communities are…
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As an amendment to motion S7M-01766 in the name of Maree Todd (Strengthening Scotland's Public Health Approach to Preventing Alcohol and Drug Deaths), insert at end "; notes that the drug-misuse death rate, as reported by the National Records of Scotland, is over 10 times higher in the most deprived areas than in the least deprived areas; regards this as evidence that working-class communities are disproportionately affected by drug-related harm, and agrees that the right to recovery must be considered as part of the efforts to address substance abuse.”
How the parties split
8 MSPs voted against their party| Party | Split | For | Against | Abst. | Absent | Majority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 0 | 7 | 46 | 4 | – Abstained split | |
| Lab | 13 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ✓ For united | |
| Reform | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ✓ For united | |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 | – Abstained split | |
| Con | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | ✗ Against united | |
| LD | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ✓ For united | |
| Ind | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | n/a | |
| NPA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | n/a |
Party is the MSP's party on the day of the vote. Majority is how most of the party's voting MSPs voted.
Every MSP
130 MSPsFor (36)
Against (18)
Abstained (59)
- George Adam
- Karen Adam
- Clare Adamson
- Heather Anderson
- Tom Arthur
- Gary Bouse
- Alan Brown
- Siobhian Brown
- Kate Campbell
- Michelle Campbell
- Angela Constance
- Martyn Day
- Bob Doris
- Jackie Dunbar
- Stephen Gethins
- Zen Ghani
- Patricia Gibson
- Neil Gray
- Katie Hagmann
- Clare Haughey
- Jamie Hepburn
- Alex Kerr
- Calum Kerr
- Simita Kumar
- David Linden
- Fulton MacGregor
- Ben Macpherson
- Gillian Martin
- Màiri McAllan
- Ivan McKee
- Paul McLennan
- Stuart McMillan
- Marie McNair
- Lloyd Melville
- Colm Merrick
- Jack Middleton
- Jenni Minto
- Laura Mitchell
- Kirsten Oswald
- Emma Roddick
- Alyn Smith
- Shirley-Anne Somerville
- Pauline Stafford
- Collette Stevenson
- Maree Todd
- David Torrance