Motion made, and Question proposed,
That this House approves recommendation 17 of the First Report of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons, Session 2008-09, HC 1117, and looks forward to the House being offered the opportunity within 10 sitting weeks of the beginning of the next session of Parliament to establish a backbench business committee and a new category of backbench business, in the light of further consideration by the Procedure Committee. -(Ms Harman.)
Amendment proposed to motion 7 : (b), leave out from 'opportunity' to end and add
'in the light of further consideration by the Procedure Committee, to establish in time for the beginning of the next Parliament a Backbench Business Committee and a new category of backbench business, comprising initially the 15 days allotted to set piece debates; and subsequently days allocated for general debates.- (Sir George Young.)
Question put, That the amendment be made.
The House divided: Ayes 106, Noes 221.
Debate in Parliament | Source |
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.
Includes MPs who were absent (or abstained)
from this vote.
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Atkinson | Hexham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Boswell | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Hornchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Browning | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Burns | West Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | Cotswold | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Cormack | South Staffordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Curry | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Greenway | Ryedale | Con | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Gummer | Suffolk Coastal | Con | aye |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Hogg | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Horam | Orpington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julie Kirkbride | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Vale of York | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | West Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | Westbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Robathan | Blaby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anthony Steen | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Upminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | Leominster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Jeremy Wright | Rugby and Kenilworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Douglas Carswell | Harwich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | no |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Heathcoat-Amory | Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Jack | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Key | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Moss | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington and Chelsea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ann Winterton | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Winterton | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Ainsworth | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Ancram | Devizes | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Butterfill | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | absent |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Liam Fox | Woodspring | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Fraser | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Goodman | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Greg Hands | Hammersmith and Fulham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Howard | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip - Northwood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jacqui Lait | Beckenham | Con | absent |
| Mark Lancaster | North East Milton Keynes | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew MacKay | Bracknell | Con | absent |
| David Maclean | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Humfrey Malins | Woking | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Maples | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Mates | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | absent |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Keith Simpson | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Spicer | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Spring | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con | absent |
| Ian Taylor | Esher and Walton | Con | absent |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con | absent |
| Peter Viggers | Gosport | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ben Wallace | Lancaster and Wyre | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nigel Waterson | Eastbourne | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ann Widdecombe | Maidstone and The Weald | Con | absent |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Wilshire | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | whilst Deputy Speaker (front bench) | absent |
| Sylvia Heal | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | whilst Deputy Speaker | absent |
| Michael Lord | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | whilst Deputy Speaker (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Ian Paisley | North Antrim | DUP | absent |
| Peter Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | absent |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Dai Davies | Blaenau Gwent | Independent | no |
| Andrew Pelling | Croydon Central | whilst Independent (front bench) | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | no |
| Derek Conway | Old Bexley and Sidcup | whilst Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Bob Spink | Castle Point | whilst Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Robert Wareing | Liverpool, West Derby | whilst Independent | absent |
| Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood | whilst Independent Labour | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dawn Butler | Brent South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Clark | Gillingham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | no |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward Balls | Normanton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Battle | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hugh Bayley | City of York | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Caborn | Sheffield Central | Lab | no |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Cawsey | Brigg and Goole | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charles Clarke | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Cook | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | no |
| Jim Cousins | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | no |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | no |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab | no |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab | no |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | no |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab | no |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab | no |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Highgate | Lab | no |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Knight | South Dorset | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | no |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Marshall-Andrews | Medway | Lab | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | no |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab | no |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab | no |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab | no |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab | no |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | no |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | no |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | both |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | both |
| Nick Ainger | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Janet Anderson | Rossendale and Darwen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hilary Armstrong | North West Durham | Lab | absent |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Austin | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hazel Blears | Salford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Des Browne | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab | absent |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | absent |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab | absent |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | absent |
| Colin Challen | Morley and Rothwell | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Chaytor | Bury North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvette Cooper | Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Claire Curtis-Thomas | Crosby | Lab | absent |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Quentin Davies | Grantham and Stamford | whilst Lab (front bench) | absent |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Devine | Livingston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | absent |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | absent |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab | absent |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bruce George | Walsall South | Lab | absent |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | Lab | absent |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nigel Griffiths | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab | absent |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab | absent |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Doug Henderson | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hesford | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Patricia Hewitt | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Keith Hill | Streatham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geoff Hoon | Ashfield | Lab | absent |
| Phil Hope | Corby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Beverley Hughes | Stretford and Urmston | Lab | absent |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Hutton | Barrow and Furness | Lab | absent |
| Adam Ingram | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab | absent |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | absent |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ruth Kelly | Bolton West | Lab | absent |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | absent |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | absent |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab | absent |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Shahid Malik | Dewsbury | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Judy Mallaber | Amber Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab | absent |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris McCafferty | Calder Valley | Lab | absent |
| Ian McCartney | Makerfield | Lab | absent |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | absent |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab | absent |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab | absent |
| Gillian Merron | Lincoln | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Milburn | Darlington | Lab | absent |
| David Miliband | South Shields | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne Moffat | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Moran | Luton South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kali Mountford | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Olner | Nuneaton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Greg Pope | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Prescott | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab | absent |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Rammell | Harlow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Reid | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab | absent |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | absent |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Christine Russell | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab | absent |
| Mohammad Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siôn Simon | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | absent |
| Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Angela Smith | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jacqui Smith | Redditch | Lab | absent |
| John Smith | Vale of Glamorgan | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Helen Southworth | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | absent |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Neil Turner | Wigan | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab | absent |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rudi Vis | Finchley and Golders Green | Lab | absent |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Claire Ward | Watford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Betty Williams | Conwy | Lab | absent |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | absent |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Colin Breed | South East Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lembit Öpik | Montgomeryshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Richard Younger-Ross | Teignbridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | no |
| Adam Price | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | no |
| George Galloway | Bethnal Green and Bow | Respect | absent |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Eddie McGrady | South Down | SDLP | absent |
| Gerry Adams | Belfast West | SF | absent |
| Pat Doherty | West Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Michelle Gildernew | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | absent |
| Conor Murphy | Newry and Armagh | SF | absent |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
| John Mason | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Alex Salmond | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | whilst Speaker (front bench) | absent |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | UUP (front bench) | absent |
