Control orders — Annual renewal 2008 — 21 Feb 2008 at 15:15
The majority voted to approve a Statutory Order[1] to renew the powers of the Government to make make Control Orders, a form of house arrest for terrorist suspects.
According to the weak sunset clause in the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005,[2] Parliament must vote every year to continue these powers or they will lapse.
The Conservative Party abstained as a block on this vote, while voting in favour of it during its renewal the year before.[3]
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Reid | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab | aye |
| Judy Mallaber | Amber Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Geoff Hoon | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Hutton | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab | aye |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siôn Simon | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab | aye |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood | whilst Independent Labour | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab | aye |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Cawsey | Brigg and Goole | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Doug Naysmith | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Chaytor | Bury North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Chris McCafferty | Calder Valley | Lab | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adam Price | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Christine Russell | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab | aye |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Betty Williams | Conwy | Lab | aye |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Hope | Corby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Laxton | 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 |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Austin | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Marshall | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Rammell | Harlow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | no |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem | no |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | aye |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Greg Pope | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem | no |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | no |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Prescott | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Battle | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Patricia Hewitt | Leicester West | Lab | aye |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gillian Merron | Lincoln | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | aye |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Devine | Livingston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Moran | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | no |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Colin Challen | Morley and Rothwell | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab | aye |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Doug Henderson | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab | aye |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Balls | Normanton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Armstrong | North West Durham | Lab | aye |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Charles Clarke | Norwich South | Lab | aye |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Olner | Nuneaton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | aye |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | aye |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Janet Anderson | Rossendale and Darwen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Caborn | Sheffield Central | Lab | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Knight | South Dorset | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eddie McGrady | South Down | SDLP | no |
| Colin Breed | South East Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | aye |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Cook | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Beverley Hughes | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Richard Younger-Ross | Teignbridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Southworth | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Oaten | Winchester | LDem | no |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Hesford | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | no |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | aye |
