Those voting No rejected a proposed new clause for the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill that would have said:
No order [can] be made under Part 1 [if] within the period defined in section 13(7), more than 10% of the members of the House of Commons have signified to the Speaker in writing that they object to the use of the Act for purpose of introducing the order in question, and [those] members... are not all members of the same party.
This is an example of an objective measure of the word "controversial".
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Judy Mallaber | Amber Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alex Salmond | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siôn Simon | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab | no |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | Lab | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dawn Butler | Brent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | no |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adam Price | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Ainger | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christine Russell | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kali Mountford | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Winterton | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Claire Curtis-Thomas | Crosby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | no |
| Alan Milburn | Darlington | Lab | no |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shahid Malik | Dewsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab | no |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | no |
| Piara S Khabra | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Adam Ingram | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Moffat | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab | no |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab | no |
| Nigel Griffiths | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | no |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Clark | Gillingham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mohammad Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Marshall | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Highgate | Lab | no |
| Bill Rammell | Harlow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem | aye |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gillian Merron | Lincoln | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab | no |
| Robert Wareing | Liverpool, West Derby | whilst Lab | aye |
| Jim Devine | Livingston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lembit Öpik | Montgomeryshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab | no |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Cousins | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab | no |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward Balls | Normanton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | UUP (front bench) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab | no |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | no |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hilary Armstrong | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem | aye |
| Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab | no |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab | no |
| Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | no |
| Bill Olner | Nuneaton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab | no |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jacqui Smith | Redditch | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem | aye |
| Janet Anderson | Rossendale and Darwen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hazel Blears | Salford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab | no |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Smith | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Wilshire | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | aye |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iris Robinson | Strangford | DUP | aye |
| Keith Hill | Streatham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Beverley Hughes | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anthony Steen | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | aye |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bruce George | Walsall South | Lab | no |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab | no |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab | no |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Southworth | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Turner | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem | aye |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hesford | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
