The majority of MPs voted not to include an option allowing people to express a preference for voting systems expected to result in proportional representation during the referendum on the system used to elect MPs.
The majority of MPs voted against a proposal by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas which suggested first asking if the system should be changed at all, then moving on to ask voters to rank the alternative vote, the additional member system, and the ‘single transferable vote’ system with multi-member constituencies, in order of preference.
During the debate prior to the vote Caroline Lucas said:
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"We owe it to the electorate to put before them a choice that includes a genuinely proportional system"[1]
The rejected amendment would have deleted the original question contained within the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[2] which read:
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Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the “alternative vote” system instead of the current “first past the post” system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?
The questions Caroline Lucas MP was seeking to have that referendum question replaced with were[3]:
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(1) Do you want to change the current “first past the post” system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?
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(2) If there were a change, list your order of preference, 1, 2, 3, for the United Kingdom to adopt:
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(a) The ‘alternative vote’ system,
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(b) The ‘additional member’ system, or
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(c) The ‘single transferable vote’ system with multi-member constituencies?”.
Caroline Lucas explained during debate that she had tabled the amendment on the basis that
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"it is contradictory for the coalition to be talking about electoral reform while seeking to offer little more than a Hobson's choice, between AV and first past the post"[4].
Caroline Lucas' amendment sought to include the options of STV and the additional member system, which would be much more likely to result in "Proportional Representation" ie. with the fraction of MPs in the commons from a particular party reflecting the fraction of the national vote.
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 |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab | absent |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab | absent |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab | absent |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem | no |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | no |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Gerry Adams | Belfast West | SF | absent |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab | absent |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab | absent |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | absent |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | absent |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | absent |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab | absent |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con | no |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | no |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab | absent |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab | absent |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | no |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | no |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | Speaker (front bench) | absent |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | no |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem | no |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | absent |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | absent |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | no |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | no |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | tellaye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | no |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | no |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | absent |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con | no |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | absent |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | no |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con | no |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | no |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab | absent |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | absent |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab | absent |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | no |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con (front bench) | no |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab | absent |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab | absent |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab | absent |
| Michelle Gildernew | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con | no |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con | no |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | absent |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | absent |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | absent |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab | absent |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | absent |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | no |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | no |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | no |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | absent |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con | no |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | no |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | absent |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab | absent |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | absent |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab | absent |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab | absent |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab | absent |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab | absent |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | absent |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Rotheram | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | absent |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab | absent |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab | absent |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | no |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | no |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab | absent |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab | absent |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | no |
| Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | absent |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab | absent |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con | no |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | absent |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | no |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | no |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab | absent |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Conor Murphy | Newry and Armagh | SF | absent |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | no |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | no |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | absent |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab | absent |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | absent |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | aye |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | no |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con | no |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | no |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | no |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab | absent |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem | no |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | absent |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con | no |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab | absent |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | absent |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | absent |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | no |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con | no |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Miliband | South Shields | Lab | absent |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con | no |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con | no |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | no |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab | absent |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab | absent |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | no |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con | no |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | no |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab | absent |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab | absent |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | no |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab | absent |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | absent |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab | absent |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pat Doherty | West Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | no |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con | no |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab | absent |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con | no |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con | no |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab | absent |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con | no |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con | no |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con | no |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | no |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab | absent |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hugh Bayley | York Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |
