Doctor Assisted Dying — 10 Dec 1997

I beg to move,

That leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable a person who is suffering distress as a result of his terminal illness or incurable physical condition to obtain assistance from a doctor to end his life; and for connected purposes.

Question put, pursuant to Standing Order No. 23 (Motions for leave to bring in Bills and nomination of Select Committees at commencement of public business):--

Those voting Aye in this division wanted a bill to be introduced to allow a terminally ill person to obtain assistance in dying from a doctor.

The House divided: Ayes 89, Noes 234.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

Party	Majority (No)	Minority (Aye)	Both	Turnout
Con	90 (+1 tell)	5	0	59.3%
DUP	1	0	0	50.0%
Ind Con	0	1	0	100.0%
Lab	113 (+1 tell)	72 (+1 tell)	0	44.8%
LDem	20	9 (+1 tell)	0	65.2%
PC	1	2	0	75.0%
SNP	4	0	0	66.7%
UKUP	1	0	0	100.0%
UUP	4	0	0	40.0%
Total:	234	89	0	50.4%

All MPs Eligible to Vote - sorted by party

Includes MPs who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.

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Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Mr Crispin Blunt	Reigate	Con	aye
Mr Richard Body	Boston and Skegness	Con	aye
Mr Michael Colvin	Romsey	Con	aye
Mr David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden	Con	aye
Mr John Townend	East Yorkshire	Con	aye
Mr Peter Ainsworth	East Surrey	Con	no
Mr David Amess	Southend West	Con	no
Earl of Michael Ancram	Devizes	Con	no
Mr James Arbuthnot	North East Hampshire	Con	no
Mr David Atkinson	Bournemouth East	Con	no
Mr Peter Atkinson	Hexham	Con	no
Mr John Bercow	Buckingham	Con	no
Mr Tim Boswell	Daventry	Con	no
Mr Peter Bottomley	Worthing West	Con	no
Mr Graham Brady	Altrincham and Sale West	Con	no
Mr Julian Brazier	Canterbury	Con	no
Mr Ian Bruce	South Dorset	Con	no
Mr Simon Burns	West Chelmsford	Con	no
Mr William Cash	Stone	Con	no
Sir Sydney Chapman	Chipping Barnet	Con	no
Mr Alan Clark	Kensington and Chelsea	Con	no
Dr Michael Clark	Rayleigh	Con	no
Mr Tim Collins	Westmorland and Lonsdale	Con	no
Sir Patrick Cormack	South Staffordshire	Con	no
Mr Quentin Davies	Grantham and Stamford	Con	no
Mr Stephen Day	Cheadle	Con	no
Mr Stephen Dorrell	Charnwood	Con	no
Mr Alan Duncan	Rutland and Melton	Con	no
Mr Iain Duncan Smith	Chingford and Woodford Green	Con	no
Mr Nigel Evans	Ribble Valley	Con	no
Mr Michael Fallon	Sevenoaks	Con	no
Mr Howard Flight	Arundel and South Downs	Con	no
Dr Liam Fox	Woodspring	Con	no
Mr Edward Garnier	Harborough	Con	no
Mr Christopher Gill	Ludlow	Con	no
Mr Alastair Goodlad	Eddisbury	Con	no
Mr James Gray	North Wiltshire	Con	no
Mr Damian Green	Ashford	Con	no
Mr Dominic Grieve	Beaconsfield	Con	no
Mr William Hague	Richmond (Yorks)	Con	no
Mr John Hayes	South Holland and The Deepings	Con	no
Mr Oliver Heald	North East Hertfordshire	Con	no
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory	Wells	Con	no
Mr John Horam	Orpington	Con	no
Mr Michael Howard	Folkestone and Hythe	Con	no
Mr Gerald Howarth	Aldershot	Con	no
Mr Andrew Hunter	Basingstoke	Con	no
Mr Michael Jack	Fylde	Con	no
Hon. Bernard Jenkin	North Essex	Con	no
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith	Wealden	Con	no
Mr Robert Key	Salisbury	Con	no
Mrs Jacqui Lait	Beckenham	Con	no
Mr Oliver Letwin	West Dorset	Con	no
Dr Julian Lewis	New Forest East	Con	no
Mr David Lidington	Aylesbury	Con	no
Mr Peter Lilley	Hitchin and Harpenden	Con	no
Mr Tim Loughton	East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	no
Mr Peter Luff	Mid Worcestershire	Con	no
Mr David Maclean	Penrith and The Border	Con	no
Mr David Madel	South West Bedfordshire	Con	no
Mr Francis Maude	Horsham	Con	no
Dr Brian Mawhinney	North West Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Mrs Anne McIntosh	Vale of York	Con	no
Mr Patrick McLoughlin	West Derbyshire	Con	no
Mr Patrick Nicholls	Teignbridge	Con	no
Mr Richard Page	South West Hertfordshire	Con	no
Mr James Paice	South East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Mr Eric Pickles	Brentwood and Ongar	Con	no
Mr David Prior	North Norfolk	Con	no
Mr John Randall	Uxbridge	Con	no
Mr Andrew Robathan	Blaby	Con	no
Mr Laurence Robertson	Tewkesbury	Con	no
Mrs Marion Roe	Broxbourne	Con	no
Mr Jonathan Sayeed	Mid Bedfordshire	Con	no
Mrs Gillian Shephard	South West Norfolk	Con	no
Mr Keith Simpson	Mid Norfolk	Con	no
Hon. Nicholas Soames	Mid Sussex	Con	no
Mrs Caroline Spelman	Meriden	Con	no
Mr Richard Spring	West Suffolk	Con	no
Mr Nick St Aubyn	Guildford	Con	no
Mr Gary Streeter	South West Devon	Con	no
Mr Desmond Swayne	New Forest West	Con	no
Mr Robert Syms	Poole	Con	no
Sir Peter Tapsell	Louth and Horncastle	Con	no
Mr John Taylor	Solihull	Con	no
Mr Teddy Taylor	Rochford and Southend East	Con	no
Mr Michael Trend	Windsor	Con	no
Mr Peter Viggers	Gosport	Con	no
Mr Robert Walter	North Dorset	Con	no
Mr Nigel Waterson	Eastbourne	Con	no
Mr Bowen Wells	Hertford and Stortford	Con	no
Mr John Whittingdale	Maldon and East Chelmsford	Con	no
Miss Ann Widdecombe	Maidstone and The Weald	Con	tellno
Mrs Ann Winterton	Congleton	Con	no
Mr Nicholas Winterton	Macclesfield	Con	no
Mr Shaun Woodward	Witney	whilst Con	no
Mr Tony Baldry	Banbury	Con	absent
Sir Paul Beresford	Mole Valley	Con	absent
Mrs Virginia Bottomley	South West Surrey	Con	absent
Mr Peter Brooke	Cities of London and Westminster	Con	absent
Mrs Angela Browning	Tiverton and Honiton	Con	absent
Mr John Butterfill	Bournemouth West	Con	absent
Mr Christopher Chope	Christchurch	Con	absent
Mr James Clappison	Hertsmere	Con	absent
Mr Kenneth Clarke	Rushcliffe	Con	absent
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	Cotswold	Con	absent
Mr James Cran	Beverley and Holderness	Con	absent
Mr David Curry	Skipton and Ripon	Con	absent
Sir Peter Emery	East Devon	Con	absent
Mr David Faber	Westbury	Con	absent
Mr Michael Fabricant	Lichfield	Con	absent
Mr Eric Forth	Bromley and Chislehurst	Con	absent
Mr Norman Fowler	Sutton Coldfield	Con	absent
Mr Christopher Fraser	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Con	absent
Mr Roger Gale	North Thanet	Con	absent
Mr Nick Gibb	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	Con	absent
Mrs Cheryl Gillan	Chesham and Amersham	Con	absent
Mrs Teresa Gorman	Billericay	Con	absent
Mr John Greenway	Ryedale	Con	absent
Mr John Gummer	Suffolk Coastal	Con	absent
Sir Archie Hamilton	Epsom and Ewell	Con	absent
Mr Philip Hammond	Runnymede and Weybridge	Con	absent
Mr Nick Hawkins	Surrey Heath	Con	absent
Mr Edward Heath	Old Bexley and Sidcup	Con	absent
Mr Michael Heseltine	Henley	Con	absent
Mr Douglas Hogg	Sleaford and North Hykeham	Con	absent
Mr Robert Jackson	Wantage	Con	absent
Mr Tom King	Bridgwater	Con	absent
Miss Julie Kirkbride	Bromsgrove	Con	absent
Mrs Eleanor Laing	Epping Forest	Con	absent
Mr Andrew Lansley	South Cambridgeshire	Con	absent
Mr Edward Leigh	Gainsborough	Con	absent
Sir Peter Lloyd	Fareham	Con	absent
Sir Nicholas Lyell	North East Bedfordshire	Con	absent
Mr John MacGregor	South Norfolk	Con	absent
Mr Andrew MacKay	Bracknell	Con	absent
Mr John Major	Huntingdon	Con	absent
Mr Humfrey Malins	Woking	Con	absent
Mr John Maples	Stratford-on-Avon	Con	absent
Mr Michael Mates	East Hampshire	Con	absent
Mrs Theresa May	Maidenhead	Con	absent
Mr Malcolm Moss	North East Cambridgeshire	Con	absent
Mr Archie Norman	Tunbridge Wells	Con	absent
Mr Richard Ottaway	Croydon South	Con	absent
Mr Owen Paterson	North Shropshire	Con	absent
Mr John Redwood	Wokingham	Con	absent
Mr Andrew Rowe	Faversham and Mid Kent	Con	absent
Mr David Ruffley	Bury St Edmunds	Con	absent
Mr Richard Shepherd	Aldridge-Brownhills	Con	absent
Mr Michael Spicer	West Worcestershire	Con	absent
Mr John Stanley	Tonbridge and Malling	Con	absent
Mr Anthony Steen	Totnes	Con	absent
Mr Ian Taylor	Esher and Walton	Con	absent
Mr David Tredinnick	Bosworth	Con	absent
Mr Andrew Tyrie	Chichester	Con	absent
Mr Charles Wardle	Bexhill and Battle	whilst Con	absent
Sir Ray Whitney	Wycombe	Con	absent
Mr John Wilkinson	Ruislip - Northwood	Con	absent
Mr David Willetts	Havant	Con	absent
Mr David Wilshire	Spelthorne	Con	absent
Mr Tim Yeo	South Suffolk	Con	absent
Sir George Young	North West Hampshire	Con	absent
Sir Alan Haselhurst	Saffron Walden	Deputy Speaker	absent
Mr Michael Lord	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	Deputy Speaker	absent
Mr Michael Martin	Glasgow Springburn	whilst Deputy Speaker	absent
Reverend Dr Ian Paisley	North Antrim	DUP	no
Mr Peter Robinson	Belfast East	DUP	absent
Mr Martin Bell	Tatton	Ind	absent
Peter Temple-Morris	Leominster	whilst Ind Con	aye
Mr Graham Allen	Nottingham North	Lab (minister)	aye
Mr Joe Ashton	Bassetlaw	Lab	tellaye
Mr John Austin	Erith and Thamesmead	Lab	aye
Mr Harry Barnes	North East Derbyshire	Lab	aye
Mr Kevin Barron	Rother Valley	Lab	aye
Mr Andrew Bennett	Denton and Reddish	Lab	aye
Dr Roger Berry	Kingswood	Lab	aye
Ms Hazel Blears	Salford	Lab	aye
Mr Peter Bradley	The Wrekin	Lab	aye
Mr Russell Brown	Dumfries	Lab	aye
Mr Richard Burden	Birmingham, Northfield	Lab	aye
Mr Jamie Cann	Ipswich	Lab	aye
Mr Tony Clarke	Northampton South	Lab	aye
Ms Ann Clwyd	Cynon Valley	Lab	aye
Mr Harry Cohen	Leyton and Wanstead	Lab	aye
Mr Tony Colman	Putney	Lab	aye
Ms Yvette Cooper	Pontefract and Castleford	Lab	aye
Mrs Valerie Davey	Bristol West	Lab	aye
Mr Ian Davidson	Glasgow Pollok	Lab	aye
Mr Ron Davies	Caerphilly	Lab (minister)	aye
Mr Andrew Dismore	Hendon	Lab	aye
Mr Brian H Donohoe	Cunninghame South	Lab	aye
Ms Julia Drown	South Swindon	Lab	aye
Mr Jeff Ennis	Barnsley East and Mexborough	Lab	aye
Mr Bill Etherington	Sunderland North	Lab	aye
Mr Jim Fitzpatrick	Poplar and Canning Town	Lab	aye
Mr Bruce George	Walsall South	Lab	aye
Dr Ian Gibson	Norwich North	Lab	aye
Mr Roger Godsiff	Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	Lab	aye
Ms Jane Griffiths	Reading East	Lab	aye
Mr John Healey	Wentworth	Lab	aye
Mr John Heppell	Nottingham East	Lab	aye
Mrs Margaret Hodge	Barking	Lab	aye
Mr Phil Hope	Corby	Lab	aye
Mr Kelvin Hopkins	Luton North	Lab	aye
Mr Eric Illsley	Barnsley Central	Lab	aye
Mr Brian Jenkins	Tamworth	Lab	aye
Miss Melanie Johnson	Welwyn Hatfield	Lab	aye
Ms Jenny Jones	Wolverhampton South West	Lab	aye
Mr Piara S Khabra	Ealing, Southall	Lab	aye
Ms Tess Kingham	Gloucester	Lab	aye
Mr Ken Livingstone	Brent East	whilst Lab	aye
Mr David Lock	Wyre Forest	Lab	aye
Miss Judy Mallaber	Amber Valley	Lab	aye
Mr John Maxton	Glasgow Cathcart	Lab	aye
Mr John McAllion	Dundee East	Lab	aye
Mr Stephen McCabe	Birmingham, Hall Green	Lab	aye
Ms Chris McCafferty	Calder Valley	Lab	aye
Mr John McDonnell	Hayes and Harlington	Lab	aye
Mr Tony McWalter	Hemel Hempstead	Lab	aye
Ms Gillian Merron	Lincoln	Lab	aye
Mr Bill Michie	Sheffield, Heeley	Lab	aye
Mr Chris Mullin	Sunderland South	Lab	aye
Mr Martin O'Neill	Ochil	Lab	aye
Mrs Diana Organ	Forest of Dean	Lab	aye
Mr James Plaskitt	Warwick and Leamington	Lab	aye
Mr Raymond Powell	Ogmore	Lab	aye
Mr Bill Rammell	Harlow	Lab	aye
Mr Martin Salter	Reading West	Lab	aye
Mr Phil Sawford	Kettering	Lab	aye
Mr Brian Sedgemore	Hackney South and Shoreditch	Lab	aye
Mr Robert Sheldon	Ashton-under-Lyne	Lab	aye
Ms Debra Shipley	Stourbridge	Lab	aye
Mr Alan Simpson	Nottingham South	Lab	aye
Mr Clive Soley	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush	Lab	aye
Mr Gerry Steinberg	City of Durham	Lab	aye
Dr Desmond Turner	Brighton, Kemptown	Lab	aye
Dr Rudi Vis	Finchley and Golders Green	Lab	aye
Mr David Winnick	Walsall North	Lab	aye
Ms Rosie Winterton	Doncaster Central	Lab	aye
Ms Audrey Wise	Preston	Lab	aye
Mr Mike Wood	Batley and Spen	Lab	aye
Mr Phil Woolas	Oldham East and Saddleworth	Lab	aye
Mrs Irene Adams	Paisley North	Lab	no
Mr Nick Ainger	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Lab	no
Mr Donald Anderson	Swansea East	Lab	no
Ms Candy Atherton	Falmouth and Camborne	Lab	no
Mr John Battle	Leeds West	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Hugh Bayley	City of York	Lab	no
Mr Nigel Beard	Bexleyheath and Crayford	Lab	no
Mr Stuart Bell	Middlesbrough	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Joe Benton	Bootle	Lab	no
Mr Gerry Bermingham	St Helens South	Lab	no
Mr Harold Best	Leeds North West	Lab	no
Mrs Liz Blackman	Erewash	Lab	no
Mr Paul Boateng	Brent South	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Des Browne	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Lab	no
Mr Alan Campbell	Tynemouth	Lab	no
Mr Ronnie Campbell	Blyth Valley	Lab	no
Mr Dale Campbell-Savours	Workington	Lab	no
Mr Dennis Canavan	Falkirk West	whilst Lab	no
Mr Roger Casale	Wimbledon	Lab	no
Mr Ben Chapman	Wirral South	Lab	no
Mr David Chaytor	Bury North	Lab	no
Ms Judith Church	Dagenham	Lab	no
Ms Helen Clark	Peterborough	Lab	no
Mr Paul Clark	Gillingham	Lab	no
Mr Michael Connarty	Falkirk East	Lab	no
Mr Frank Cook	Stockton North	Lab	no
Mr Jeremy Corbyn	Islington North	Lab	no
Mr David Crausby	Bolton North East	Lab	no
Mr Lawrence Cunliffe	Leigh	Lab	no
Mr Tam Dalyell	Linlithgow	Lab	no
Mr Keith Darvill	Upminster	Lab	no
Mr Denzil Davies	Llanelli	Lab	no
Mr Hilton Dawson	Lancaster and Wyre	Lab	no
Mr Jim Dobbin	Heywood and Middleton	Lab	tellno
Mr David Drew	Stroud	Lab	no
Mr Huw Edwards	Monmouth	Lab	no
Mrs Louise Ellman	Liverpool, Riverside	Lab	no
Mr Michael Jabez Foster	Hastings and Rye	Lab	no
Mrs Maria Fyfe	Glasgow Maryhill	Lab	no
Mr George Galloway	Glasgow Kelvin	Lab	no
Mr Mike Gapes	Ilford South	Lab	no
Mr Paul Goggins	Wythenshawe and Sale East	Lab	no
Mr Mike Hall	Weaver Vale	Lab	no
Mr Patrick Hall	Bedford	Lab	no
Mr David Hanson	Delyn	Lab	no
Mr Stephen Hepburn	Jarrow	Lab	no
Mr Keith Hill	Streatham	Lab	no
Mr David Hinchliffe	Wakefield	Lab	no
Mr John Home Robertson	East Lothian	Lab	no
Mr Jimmy Hood	Clydesdale	Lab	no
Mr John Hutton	Barrow and Furness	Lab	no
Dr Brian Iddon	Bolton South East	Lab	no
Mr Adam Ingram	East Kilbride	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Barry Jones	Alyn and Deeside	Lab	no
Mrs Fiona Jones	Newark	Lab	no
Ms Helen Jones	Warrington North	Lab	no
Mr Gerald Kaufman	Manchester, Gorton	Lab	no
Ms Sally Keeble	Northampton North	Lab	no
Ms Ruth Kelly	Bolton West	Lab	no
Mr David Kidney	Stafford	Lab	no
Mr Peter Kilfoyle	Liverpool, Walton	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Andy King	Rugby and Kenilworth	Lab	no
Dr Stephen Ladyman	South Thanet	Lab	no
Mrs Jackie Lawrence	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Lab	no
Mr Ivan Lewis	Bury South	Lab	no
Mr Terry Lewis	Worsley	Lab	no
Mrs Helen Liddell	Airdrie and Shotts	Lab (minister)	no
Mr Denis MacShane	Rotherham	Lab	no
Mrs Alice Mahon	Halifax	Lab	no
Mr David Marshall	Glasgow Shettleston	Lab	no
Dr Jim Marshall	Leicester South	Lab	no
Mr Eric Martlew	Carlisle	Lab	no
Mr Thomas McAvoy	Glasgow Rutherglen	Lab (minister)	no
Ms Siobhain McDonagh	Mitcham and Morden	Lab	no
Mr John McFall	Dumbarton	Lab (minister)	no
Mrs Anne McGuire	Stirling	Lab	no
Mrs Rosemary McKenna	Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Lab	no
Mr Kevin McNamara	Kingston upon Hull North	Lab	no
Mr Tony McNulty	Harrow East	Lab	no
Mr Alan Meale	Mansfield	Lab	no
Mr Andrew Miller	Ellesmere Port and Neston	Lab	no
Mrs Laura Moffatt	Crawley	Lab	no
Ms Margaret Moran	Luton South	Lab	no
Mr Jim Murphy	East Renfrewshire	Lab	no
Mr Bill O'Brien	Normanton	Lab	no
Mr Edward O'Hara	Knowsley South	Lab	no
Mr Bill Olner	Nuneaton	Lab	no
Mr Tom Pendry	Stalybridge and Hyde	Lab	no
Mr Peter Pike	Burnley	Lab	no
Mr Kerry Pollard	St Albans	Lab	no
Mr Stephen Pound	Ealing North	Lab	no
Mr Syd Rapson	Portsmouth North	Lab	no
Mr Allan Rogers	Rhondda	Lab	no
Mr Terry Rooney	Bradford North	Lab	no
Mr Ernie Ross	Dundee West	Lab	no
Mr Ted Rowlands	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney	Lab	no
Mr Frank Roy	Motherwell and Wishaw	Lab	no
Mr Jonathan R Shaw	Chatham and Aylesford	Lab	no
Mr Barry Sheerman	Huddersfield	Lab	no
Mr Dennis Skinner	Bolsover	Lab	no
Ms Angela Smith	Basildon	Lab	no
Ms Geraldine Smith	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Lab	no
Mr John Spellar	Warley	Lab (minister)	no
Mr David Stewart	Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	Lab	no
Mr Paul Stinchcombe	Wellingborough	Lab	no
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe	Bradford South	Lab	no
Ms Dari Taylor	Stockton South	Lab	no
Mr Stephen Timms	East Ham	Lab	no
Mr Paddy Tipping	Sherwood	Lab	no
Mr Don Touhig	Islwyn	Lab	no
Mr Derek Twigg	Halton	Lab	no
Mr Keith Vaz	Leicester East	Lab	no
Mr Robert Wareing	Liverpool, West Derby	Lab	no
Mr Dave Watts	St Helens North	Lab	no
Miss Diane Abbott	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	Lab	absent
Mr Bob Ainsworth	Coventry North East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Douglas Alexander	Paisley South	Lab	absent
Mrs Janet Anderson	Rossendale and Darwen	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Hilary Armstrong	North West Durham	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Charlotte Atkins	Staffordshire Moorlands	Lab	absent
Mr Tony Banks	West Ham	Lab (minister)	absent
Miss Margaret Beckett	Derby South	Lab (minister)	absent
Miss Anne Begg	Aberdeen South	Lab	absent
Mr Tony Benn	Chesterfield	Lab	absent
Mr Clive Betts	Sheffield, Attercliffe	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Tony Blair	Sedgefield	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Bob Blizzard	Waveney	Lab	absent
Mr David Blunkett	Sheffield, Brightside	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr David Borrow	South Ribble	Lab	absent
Mr Keith Bradley	Manchester, Withington	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Ben Bradshaw	Exeter	Lab	absent
Mr Gordon Brown	Dunfermline East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Nick Brown	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Karen Buck	Regent's Park and Kensington North	Lab	absent
Mr Colin Burgon	Elmet	Lab	absent
Mrs Christine Butler	Castle Point	Lab	absent
Mr Stephen Byers	North Tyneside	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Richard Caborn	Sheffield Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Anne Campbell	Cambridge	Lab	absent
Mr Ivor Caplin	Hove	Lab	absent
Mr Martin Caton	Gower	Lab	absent
Mr Ian Cawsey	Brigg and Goole	Lab	absent
Mr Malcolm Chisholm	Edinburgh North and Leith	Lab	absent
Mr Michael Clapham	Barnsley West and Penistone	Lab	absent
Dr David Clark	South Shields	Lab (minister)	absent
Dr Lynda Clark	Edinburgh Pentlands	Lab	absent
Mr Charles Clarke	Norwich South	Lab	absent
Mr Eric Clarke	Midlothian	Lab	absent
Mr Tom Clarke	Coatbridge and Chryston	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr David Clelland	Tyne Bridge	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Vernon Coaker	Gedling	Lab	absent
Ms Ann Coffey	Stockport	Lab	absent
Mr Iain Coleman	Hammersmith and Fulham	Lab	absent
Mr Robin Cook	Livingston	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Robin Corbett	Birmingham, Erdington	Lab	absent
Ms Jean Corston	Bristol East	Lab	absent
Mr Jim Cousins	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Lab	absent
Mr Tom Cox	Tooting	Lab	absent
Professor Ross Cranston	Dudley North	Lab	absent
Mrs Ann Cryer	Keighley	Lab	absent
Mr John Cryer	Hornchurch	Lab	absent
Mr John Cummings	Easington	Lab	absent
Dr Jack Cunningham	Copeland	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Jim Cunningham	Coventry South	Lab	absent
Ms Claire Curtis-Thomas	Crosby	Lab	absent
Mr Alistair Darling	Edinburgh Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Geraint Davies	Croydon Central	Lab	absent
Mr Terry Davis	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Lab	absent
Mrs Janet Dean	Burton	Lab	absent
Mr John Denham	Southampton, Itchen	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Donald Dewar	Glasgow Anniesland	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Frank Dobson	Holborn and St Pancras	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Frank Doran	Aberdeen Central	Lab	absent
Mr Jim Dowd	Lewisham West	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody	Crewe and Nantwich	Lab	absent
Ms Angela Eagle	Wallasey	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Maria Eagle	Liverpool, Garston	Lab	absent
Mr Clive Efford	Eltham	Lab	absent
Mr Derek Fatchett	Leeds Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Frank Field	Birkenhead	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Mark Fisher	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Lorna Fitzsimons	Rochdale	Lab	absent
Ms Caroline Flint	Don Valley	Lab	absent
Mr Paul Flynn	Newport West	Lab	absent
Mrs Barbara Follett	Stevenage	Lab	absent
Mr Derek Foster	Bishop Auckland	Lab	absent
Mr Michael Foster	Worcester	Lab	absent
Mr George Foulkes	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Sam Galbraith	Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Barry Gardiner	Brent North	Lab	absent
Mr Neil Gerrard	Walthamstow	Lab	absent
Ms Linda Gilroy	Plymouth, Sutton	Lab	absent
Dr Norman Godman	Greenock and Inverclyde	Lab	absent
Mrs Llin Golding	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	absent
Mrs Eileen Gordon	Romford	Lab	absent
Mr Tommy Graham	West Renfrewshire	whilst Lab	absent
Mr Bernie Grant	Tottenham	Lab	absent
Mr Nigel Griffiths	Edinburgh South	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Win Griffiths	Bridgend	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Bruce Grocott	Telford	Lab	absent
Mr John Grogan	Selby	Lab	absent
Mr John Gunnell	Morley and Rothwell	Lab	absent
Mr Peter Hain	Neath	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Fabian Hamilton	Leeds North East	Lab	absent
Ms Harriet Harman	Camberwell and Peckham	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Sylvia Heal	Halesowen and Rowley Regis	whilst Lab	absent
Mr Doug Henderson	Newcastle upon Tyne North	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Ivan Henderson	Harwich	Lab	absent
Mr Stephen Hesford	Wirral West	Lab	absent
Ms Patricia Hewitt	Leicester West	Lab	absent
Ms Kate Hoey	Vauxhall	Lab	absent
Mr Geoff Hoon	Ashfield	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Alan Howarth	Newport East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr George Howarth	Knowsley North and Sefton East	Lab (minister)	absent
Dr Kim Howells	Pontypridd	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Lindsay Hoyle	Chorley	Lab	absent
Ms Beverley Hughes	Stretford and Urmston	Lab	absent
Mr Kevin Hughes	Doncaster North	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Joan Humble	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	Lab	absent
Mr Alan Hurst	Braintree	Lab	absent
Ms Glenda Jackson	Hampstead and Highgate	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Helen Jackson	Sheffield, Hillsborough	Lab	absent
Mr David Jamieson	Plymouth, Devonport	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Alan Johnson	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle	Lab	absent
Mr Jon Owen Jones	Cardiff Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Dr Lynne Jones	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Lab	absent
Mr Martyn Jones	Clwyd South	Lab	absent
Ms Tessa Jowell	Dulwich and West Norwood	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Alan Keen	Feltham and Heston	Lab	absent
Mrs Ann Keen	Brentford and Isleworth	Lab	absent
Mr Fraser Kemp	Houghton and Washington East	Lab	absent
Ms Jane Kennedy	Liverpool, Wavertree	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Oona King	Bethnal Green and Bow	Lab	absent
Dr Ashok Kumar	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Lab	absent
Mr Bob Laxton	Derby North	Lab	absent
Mr David Lepper	Brighton, Pavilion	Lab	absent
Mr Christopher Leslie	Shipley	Lab	absent
Mr Tom Levitt	High Peak	Lab	absent
Mr Martin Linton	Battersea	Lab	absent
Mr Tony Lloyd	Manchester Central	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Andrew Love	Edmonton	Lab	absent
Mr Calum MacDonald	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Andrew MacKinlay	Thurrock	Lab	absent
Ms Fiona Mactaggart	Slough	Lab	absent
Mr Peter Mandelson	Hartlepool	Lab (minister)	absent
Dr John Marek	Wrexham	Lab	absent
Mr Gordon Marsden	Blackpool South	Lab	absent
Mr Paul Marsden	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Lab	absent
Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews	Medway	Lab	absent
Mr Ian McCartney	Makerfield	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Shona McIsaac	Cleethorpes	Lab	absent
Mr Henry McLeish	Central Fife	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr John McWilliam	Blaydon	Lab	absent
Mr Michael Meacher	Oldham West and Royton	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Alun Michael	Cardiff South and Penarth	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Alan Milburn	Darlington	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Austin Mitchell	Great Grimsby	Lab	absent
Dr Lewis Moonie	Kirkcaldy	Lab	absent
Ms Julie Morgan	Cardiff North	Lab	absent
Mr Rhodri Morgan	Cardiff West	Lab	absent
Mr Elliot Morley	Scunthorpe	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Estelle Morris	Birmingham, Yardley	Lab (minister)	absent
Sir John Morris	Aberavon	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Kali Mountford	Colne Valley	Lab	absent
Dr Mo Mowlam	Redcar	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr George Mudie	Leeds East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Denis Murphy	Wansbeck	Lab	absent
Mr Paul Murphy	Torfaen	Lab (minister)	absent
Dr Doug Naysmith	Bristol North West	Lab	absent
Mr Dan Norris	Wansdyke	Lab	absent
Mr Mike O'Brien	North Warwickshire	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Sandra Osborne	Ayr	Lab	absent
Dr Nick Palmer	Broxtowe	Lab	absent
Mr Ian Pearson	Dudley South	Lab	absent
Ms Linda Perham	Ilford North	Lab	absent
Mr Colin Pickthall	West Lancashire	Lab	absent
Mr Chris Pond	Gravesham	Lab	absent
Mr Greg Pope	Hyndburn	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Bridget Prentice	Lewisham East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Gordon Prentice	Pendle	Lab	absent
Mr John Prescott	Kingston upon Hull East	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Dawn Primarolo	Bristol South	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Gwyn Prosser	Dover	Lab	absent
Mr Ken Purchase	Wolverhampton North East	Lab	absent
Ms Joyce Quin	Gateshead East and Washington West	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Lawrie Quinn	Scarborough and Whitby	Lab	absent
Mr Giles Radice	North Durham	Lab	absent
Mr Nick Raynsford	Greenwich and Woolwich	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Andy Reed	Loughborough	Lab	absent
Dr John Reid	Hamilton North and Bellshill	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr George Robertson	Hamilton South	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Geoffrey Robinson	Coventry North West	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Barbara Roche	Hornsey and Wood Green	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Jeff Rooker	Birmingham, Perry Barr	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Chris Ruane	Vale of Clwyd	Lab	absent
Ms Joan Ruddock	Lewisham, Deptford	Lab (minister)	absent
Mrs Christine Russell	City of Chester	Lab	absent
Ms Joan Ryan	Enfield North	Lab	absent
Mr Mohammad Sarwar	Glasgow Govan	Lab	absent
Mr Malcolm Savidge	Aberdeen North	Lab	absent
Ms Clare Short	Birmingham, Ladywood	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Marsha Singh	Bradford West	Lab	absent
Mr Andrew Smith	Oxford East	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Chris Smith	Islington South and Finsbury	Lab (minister)	absent
Ms Jacqui Smith	Redditch	Lab	absent
Mr John Smith	Vale of Glamorgan	Lab	absent
Mr Llew Smith	Blaenau Gwent	Lab	absent
Mr Peter Snape	West Bromwich East	Lab	absent
Ms Helen Southworth	Warrington South	Lab	absent
Ms Rachel Squire	Dunfermline West	Lab	absent
Dr Phyllis Starkey	Milton Keynes South West	Lab	absent
Mr George Stevenson	Stoke-on-Trent South	Lab	absent
Mr Ian Stewart	Eccles	Lab	absent
Dr Howard Stoate	Dartford	Lab	absent
Mr Roger Stott	Wigan	Lab	absent
Dr Gavin Strang	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Jack Straw	Blackburn	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Graham Stringer	Manchester, Blackley	Lab	absent
Ms Gisela Stuart	Birmingham, Edgbaston	Lab	absent
Mrs Ann Taylor	Dewsbury	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr David Taylor	North West Leicestershire	Lab	absent
Mr Gareth Thomas	Clwyd West	Lab	absent
Mr Gareth Thomas	Harrow West	Lab	absent
Mr Mark Todd	South Derbyshire	Lab	absent
Mr Jon Trickett	Hemsworth	Lab	absent
Mr Paul Truswell	Pudsey	Lab	absent
Mr Dennis Turner	Wolverhampton South East	Lab	absent
Dr George Turner	North West Norfolk	Lab	absent
Mr Stephen Twigg	Enfield, Southgate	Lab	absent
Ms Joan Walley	Stoke-on-Trent North	Lab	absent
Ms Claire Ward	Watford	Lab	absent
Mr Brian White	North East Milton Keynes	Lab	absent
Dr Alan Whitehead	Southampton, Test	Lab	absent
Mr Malcolm Wicks	Croydon North	Lab	absent
Dr Alan Williams	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Lab	absent
Mr Alan Williams	Swansea West	Lab	absent
Mrs Betty Williams	Conwy	Lab	absent
Mr Michael Wills	North Swindon	Lab	absent
Mr Brian Wilson	Cunninghame North	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Tony Worthington	Clydebank and Milngavie	Lab (minister)	absent
Mr Jimmy Wray	Glasgow Baillieston	Lab	absent
Mr Anthony D Wright	Great Yarmouth	Lab	absent
Dr Tony Wright	Cannock Chase	Lab	absent
Mr Derek Wyatt	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Lab	absent
Mr Norman Baker	Lewes	LDem	aye
Mr Menzies Campbell	North East Fife	LDem	aye
Mr Andrew George	St Ives	LDem	aye
Mr Donald Gorrie	Edinburgh West	LDem	aye
Dr Evan Harris	Oxford West and Abingdon	LDem	aye
Mr Lembit Öpik	Montgomeryshire	LDem	aye
Mr David Rendel	Newbury	LDem	aye
Mr Bob Russell	Colchester	LDem	aye
Mr Adrian Sanders	Torbay	LDem	aye
Dr Jenny Tonge	Richmond Park	LDem	tellaye
Mr Paddy Ashdown	Yeovil	LDem	no
Mrs Jackie Ballard	Taunton	LDem	no
Mr Alan Beith	Berwick-upon-Tweed	LDem	no
Dr Peter Brand	Isle of Wight	LDem	no
Mr Malcolm Bruce	Gordon	LDem	no
Mr John Burnett	Torridge and West Devon	LDem	no
Mr Paul Burstow	Sutton and Cheam	LDem	no
Mr Ronnie Fearn	Southport	LDem	no
Mr David Heath	Somerton and Frome	LDem	no
Mr Nigel Jones	Cheltenham	LDem	no
Mr Paul Keetch	Hereford	LDem	no
Mr Charles Kennedy	Ross, Skye and Inverness West	LDem	no
Mr Richard Livsey	Brecon and Radnorshire	LDem	no
Mr Robert Maclennan	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	LDem	no
Mrs Ray Michie	Argyll and Bute	LDem	no
Sir Robert Smith	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	LDem	no
Mr Andrew Stunell	Hazel Grove	LDem	no
Mr Paul Tyler	North Cornwall	LDem	no
Mr Jim Wallace	Orkney and Shetland	LDem	no
Professor Steve Webb	Northavon	LDem	no
Mr Richard Allan	Sheffield, Hallam	LDem	absent
Mr Tom Brake	Carshalton and Wallington	LDem	absent
Mr Colin Breed	South East Cornwall	LDem	absent
Dr Vincent Cable	Twickenham	LDem	absent
Mr David Chidgey	Eastleigh	LDem	absent
Mr Brian Cotter	Weston-Super-Mare	LDem	absent
Mr Edward Davey	Kingston and Surbiton	LDem	absent
Mr Don Foster	Bath	LDem	absent
Mr Mike Hancock	Portsmouth South	LDem	absent
Mr Nick Harvey	North Devon	LDem	absent
Mr Simon Hughes	North Southwark and Bermondsey	LDem	absent
Mr Archy Kirkwood	Roxburgh and Berwickshire	LDem	absent
Mr Michael Moore	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale	LDem	absent
Mr Mark Oaten	Winchester	LDem	absent
Mr Matthew Taylor	Truro and St Austell	LDem	absent
Mr Phil Willis	Harrogate and Knaresborough	LDem	absent
Mr Elfyn Llwyd	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	PC	aye
Mr Dafydd Wigley	Caernarfon	PC	aye
Mr Ieuan Wyn Jones	Ynys Môn	PC	no
Mr Cynog Dafis	Ceredigion	PC	absent
Mr John Hume	Foyle	SDLP	absent
Mr Seamus Mallon	Newry and Armagh	SDLP	absent
Mr Eddie McGrady	South Down	SDLP	absent
Mr Gerry Adams	Belfast West	SF	absent
Mr Martin McGuinness	Mid Ulster	SF	absent
Ms Roseanna Cunningham	Perth	SNP	no
Mr Alex Salmond	Banff and Buchan	SNP	no
Mr John Swinney	North Tayside	SNP	no
Mr Andrew Welsh	Angus	SNP	no
Mrs Margaret Ewing	Moray	SNP	absent
Mr Alasdair Morgan	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	SNP	absent
Miss Betty Boothroyd	West Bromwich West	Speaker	absent
Mr Robert McCartney	North Down	UKUP	no
Mr Roy Beggs	East Antrim	UUP	no
Mr Jeffrey M Donaldson	Lagan Valley	UUP	no
Mr Clifford Forsythe	South Antrim	UUP	no
Mr William Thompson	West Tyrone	UUP	no
Mr Ken Maginnis	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	UUP	absent
Mr William Ross	East Londonderry	UUP	absent
Reverend Martin Smyth	Belfast South	UUP	absent
Mr John D Taylor	Strangford	UUP	absent
Mr David Trimble	Upper Bann	UUP	absent
Mr Cecil Walker	Belfast North	UUP	absent

Doctor Assisted Dying — 10 Dec 1997

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