Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs — Termination of Pregnancy — 31 Oct 2006 at 15:42
The majority Noes rejected a putative Bill reducing the time limit for abortions and requiring counselling and a "cooling off" period.
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to reduce the time limit for legal termination of pregnancy from 24 to 21 weeks; to introduce a cooling off period after the first point of contact with a medical practitioner about a termination; to require the provision of counselling about the medical risk of, and about matters relating to, termination and carrying a pregnancy to term as a condition of informed consent to termination; to enable the time period from the end of the cooling off period to the date of termination to be reduced; and for connected purposes.
Question put, pursuant to Standing Order No. 23 (Motions for leave to bring in Bills and nomination of Select Committees at commencement of public business):-
The House divided: Ayes 108, Noes 187.
Keyword: Abortion
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | no |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jacqui Lait | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood | whilst Independent Labour | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew MacKay | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | no |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con | aye |
| Julie Kirkbride | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | whilst Con (front bench) | no |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | no |
| Chris McCafferty | Calder Valley | Lab | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Spink | Castle Point | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | aye |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christine Russell | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kali Mountford | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Gwyneth Dunwoody | Crewe and Nantwich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Pelling | Croydon Central | whilst Con | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | no |
| Alan Milburn | Darlington | Lab | no |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab | no |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Piara S Khabra | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab | no |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab | no |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab | no |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rudi Vis | Finchley and Golders Green | Lab | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Jack | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Marshall | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Peter Viggers | Gosport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Hammersmith and Fulham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Highgate | Lab | no |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | no |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Peter Atkinson | Hexham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Hornchurch | Con | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | no |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Pope | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | no |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington and Chelsea | Con | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Wallace | Lancaster and Wyre | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | Leominster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem | aye |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab | no |
| Robert Wareing | Liverpool, West Derby | whilst Lab | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Colin Challen | Morley and Rothwell | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Doug Henderson | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab | no |
| Ian Paisley | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Moss | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab | no |
| Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Conway | Old Bexley and Sidcup | whilst Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab | no |
| David Maclean | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab | no |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con | aye |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | no |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Rugby and Kenilworth | Con | aye |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip - Northwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Greenway | Ryedale | Con | aye |
| Robert Key | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab | no |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | aye |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Curry | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Wilshire | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iris Robinson | Strangford | DUP | aye |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | no |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Anthony Steen | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bruce George | Walsall South | Lab | no |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patrick McLoughlin | West Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | Westbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Turner | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liam Fox | Woodspring | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | no |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | aye |
