Assisted Dying Bill passed: How did MPs from the North East and North Yorkshire vote?
On Friday MPs voted 314 to 291 in favour of the bill, backing the right for adults with less than six months to live to choose to end their own lives.
16 MPs in the North East and North Yorkshire region voted for the bill, 19 were against, while there was one did not vote.
We have a breakdown of what our MPs voted for what in this historic vote.
Which MPs voted in favour of the bill?
Luke Akehurst - North Durham MP
Lewis Atkinson - Sunderland Central MP
Jonathan Brash - Hartlepool MP
Sir Alan Campbell - Tynemouth MP
Luke Charters - York Outer MP
Mark Ferguson - Gateshead Central and Whickham MP
Emma Foody - Cramlington and Killingworth MP
Tom Gordon - Harrogate and Knaresborough MP
Kevin Hollinrake - Thirsk and Malton MP
Alison Hume - Scarborough and Whitby MP
Keir Mather - Selby MP
Rishi Sunak - Richmond and Northallerton MP
Anna Turley - Redcar and Cleveland MP
Joe Morris - Hexham MP
Luke Myer - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP
Kate Osborne - Jarrow and Gateshead East MP
Which MPs voted against the bill?
Mary Kelly Foy - City of Durham MP
Mary Glindon - Newcastle Upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP
Ian Lavery - Blyth and Ashington MP
Emma Lewell - South Shields MP
Rachael Maskell - York Central MP
Andy McDonald - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East MP
Chris McDonald - Stockton North MP
Lola McEvoy - Darlington MP
Catherine McKinnell - Newcastle Upon Tyne North MP
Grahame Morris - Easington MP
Dame Chi Onwurah - Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and West MP
Bridget Phillipson - Houghton and Sunderland South MP
Sam Rushworth - Bishop Auckland MP
Sir Alec Shelbrooke - Wetherby and Easingwold MP
David Smith - North Northumberland MP
Julian Smith - Skipton and Ripon MP
Alan Strickland - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP
Liz Twist - Blaydon and Consett MP
Matt Vickers - Stockton West MP
Others:
Sharon Hodgson - Washington and Gateshead South MP (no vote recorded, as she was not present).
MPs began voting on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill, brought forward by Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater, just after 2pm as opposition and pro-change campaigners gathered outside Parliament.
It came after a highly emotional debate in the Commons with MPs from across the political divide making impassioned arguments for and against.
Friday's vote does not mean the bill immediately becomes law as it will now transfer to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.
The Upper House can make amendments to the bill and pass it back to MPs but it is expected this process will happen fairly quickly as the final date they can currently consider a Private Members' bill in this parliamentary session is 11 July.
There are several more stages of scrutiny in both chambers for the bill to go through before it heads to the King to receive royal assent and become law.
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