Deferred Divisions — Church of England Marriage Measure — 14 May 2008 at 18:51
That the Church of England Marriage Measure (HC 511), passed by the General Synod of the Church of England, be presented to Her Majesty for Her Royal Assent in the form in which the said Measure was laid before Parliament.- [Sir Stuart Bell.]
The House divided: Ayes 266, Noes 4.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Geoff Hoon | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Hutton | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | aye |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab | aye |
| Dai Davies | Blaenau Gwent | Independent | aye |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ruth Kelly | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adam Price | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Ainger | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Spink | Castle Point | whilst UKIP (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab | aye |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Betty Williams | Conwy | Lab | aye |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Hope | Corby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Claire Curtis-Thomas | Crosby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | aye |
| Alan Milburn | Darlington | Lab | aye |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Griffiths | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rudi Vis | Finchley and Golders Green | Lab | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Clark | Gillingham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | aye |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | aye |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem | aye |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Des Browne | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | aye |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Devine | Livingston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab | aye |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab | aye |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Balls | Normanton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | aye |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Armstrong | North West Durham | Lab | aye |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Charles Clarke | Norwich South | Lab | aye |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Olner | Nuneaton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | aye |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jacqui Smith | Redditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hazel Blears | Salford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab | aye |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | aye |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Colin Breed | South East Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | aye |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Cook | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Hill | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Beverley Hughes | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | aye |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | aye |
