Where can you find online the voting records for the both Houses of the UK Parliament?
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These records are not kept, and never have been kept, because Divisions of the House (both Lords or Commons) are not, and never have been, by roll call. The exact procedure is nicely summarized in Wikipedia, but the crux is that only total votes for and against have ever been recorded, and those only when a voice vote has been unclear.
In the case of the Commons, after the Speaker has made the first announcement of a division, due to a voice vote being unclear, the bells are rung continuously to summon members to vote, until eight minutes later when the doors of the House are locked. The members then file through doors into two separate division lobbies, counted as they pass through.
In exceptional cases a process known as nodding through makes special provision to count Members who can be verified to be physically within the boundaries of the Palace of Westminster, and alive, but physically unable to actually walk through a door of division:
I remember the famous case of Leslie Spriggs, the then Member for St. Helens. We had a tied vote and he was brought to the House in an ambulance having suffered a severe heart attack. The two Whips went out to look in the ambulance and there was Leslie Spriggs laid there as though he was dead. I believe that John Stradling Thomas said to Joe Harper, "How do we know that he is alive?" So he leaned forward, turned the knob on the heart machine, the green light went around, and he said, "There, you've lost - it's 311.".
More commonly, Members who know they will be absent for an upcoming vote will pair off with a Member known to support the opposite side, both agreeing not to participate in the upcoming vote so that one or both may travel from the vicinity of Westminster to attend to official Parliamentary business. The respective Party Whips will enforce the pairing off, as this practice is beneficial to all parties, averaged over time.
The process for the House of Lords is structured similarly but varies in some of the details.
The historical Hansard transcripts record the results of Divisions, but a quick search was unable to find one where the tally of the votes for and against was recorded - presumably it is recorded whenever a voice vote was insufficient to determine the Motion.
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