Equal Pay (Transparency) Bill — 16 Dec 2014 at 14:29
The majority of MPs voted to require those employing more than 250 employees to publish information showing any differences in the pay of male and female employees.
The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
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That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to make Regulations under Section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 to require employers of more than 250 employees to publish information relating to the pay of employees for the purpose of showing whether there are differences in the pay of male and female employees; and for connected purposes.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con | aye |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | aye |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem | aye |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andy Sawford | Corby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con (front bench) | both |
| Liz McInnes | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | aye |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | aye |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Rotheram | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | aye |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst Independent | aye |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | aye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | aye |
