The majority of MPs voted not to hold a private session of the House of Commons.
The text of the motion rejected in the vote was:
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That the House sit in private.
The House of Commons' Standing Order No. 163 says:
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If at any sitting of the House... any Member moves 'That the House sit in private' the Speaker... shall forthwith put the question 'That the House sit in private', and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, but such a Motion may be made no more than once in any sitting.
Moving the motion to sit in private is almost always a procedural tactic. By ensuring the defeat of a motion to sit in private at the beginning of the sitting, the mover makes it impossible for any member to move the motion during a subsequent debate.
If such a motion is brought during the debate on a Bill, and fewer than 40 MPs vote in it, then the debate ends immediately regardless of the result (following Standing Order 44). Such an ending of debate occurred on the 14th of March 2003. The points of order following that division show MPs questioning the appropriateness of the tactic.
Moving a motion to sit in private is often done first thing on a Friday morning. Moving the motion ensures it can't be moved later in the day, when MPs might have returned to their constituencies for the weekend and too few members may be present to reach the 40 member threshold leading to the discussion of the business before the house (typically private members' Bills) being brought to an end.
See also What is a motion to sit in private? from the PublicWhip FAQ.
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 |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | absent |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con | tellaye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con | tellaye |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | no |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con | no |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con | no |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | absent |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | absent |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con | absent |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con | absent |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con | absent |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | absent |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | absent |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con | absent |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | absent |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | absent |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | absent |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | 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 |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | absent |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con | absent |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | absent |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | absent |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | absent |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con | absent |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con | absent |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | 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 | absent |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con | absent |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | absent |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con | absent |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con | absent |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con | absent |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con | absent |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con | absent |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con | absent |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con | absent |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | absent |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | absent |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | absent |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con | absent |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con | absent |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con | absent |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con | absent |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con | absent |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con | absent |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con | absent |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | absent |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con | absent |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | absent |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | absent |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con | absent |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | absent |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | absent |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con | absent |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con | absent |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | absent |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con | absent |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | absent |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con | absent |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | absent |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | absent |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | absent |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | absent |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con | absent |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | absent |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con | absent |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con | absent |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | absent |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | absent |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | absent |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con | absent |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con | absent |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | absent |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | absent |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP | 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 Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | absent |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab | absent |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hugh Bayley | York Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | absent |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab | absent |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab | absent |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | absent |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab | absent |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab | absent |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | absent |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab | absent |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | absent |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | absent |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | absent |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | absent |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab | absent |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab | absent |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab | absent |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab | absent |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab | absent |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab | absent |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab | absent |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | absent |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | absent |
| Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | absent |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | absent |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab | absent |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | absent |
| Steve Rotheram | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | 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 | absent |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab | absent |
| Andy Sawford | Corby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | absent |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | absent |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | absent |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | absent |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | absent |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab | absent |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | absent |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab | absent |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab | absent |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | absent |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem | absent |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem | absent |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | absent |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | absent |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | absent |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | absent |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem | absent |
| Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem | absent |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | absent |
| George Galloway | Bradford West | Respect | absent |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Pat Doherty | West Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Michelle Gildernew | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Paul Maskey | Belfast West | SF | absent |
| Francie Molloy | Mid Ulster | SF | absent |
| Conor Murphy | Newry and Armagh | SF | absent |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | Speaker (front bench) | absent |
