Business of the House — Chair (Terminology) — 4 Mar 2010 at 15:41
I beg to move,
(1) That this House approves recommendation 3 of the First Report of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons, Session 2008-09, HC 1117; and
The House divided: Ayes 206, Noes 90.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con | no |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Baron | Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood | whilst Independent Labour | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Robathan | Blaby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dai Davies | Blaenau Gwent | Independent | aye |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con | no |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab | aye |
| Dawn Butler | Brent South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Cawsey | Brigg and Goole | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Kirkbride | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| 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) | aye |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adam Price | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | no |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hugh Bayley | City of York | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ann Winterton | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | Cotswold | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Pelling | Croydon Central | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | aye |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab | aye |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab | aye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Jack | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mason | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | 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 |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Highgate | Lab | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Hornchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington and Chelsea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Battle | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | Leominster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nicholas Winterton | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Marshall-Andrews | Medway | Lab | aye |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lembit Öpik | Montgomeryshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Cousins | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Moss | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | 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 |
| John Horam | Orpington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | aye |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem | aye |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Key | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Caborn | Sheffield Central | Lab | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | no |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Douglas Hogg | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | 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 |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick Cormack | South Staffordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab | aye |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab | aye |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Cook | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | aye |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Gummer | Suffolk Coastal | Con | no |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | aye |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Richard Younger-Ross | Teignbridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Browning | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Anthony Steen | Totnes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Upminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Randall | Uxbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne McIntosh | Vale of York | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| David Heathcoat-Amory | Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Simon Burns | West Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | Westbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Goodman | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | aye |
