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Prayers — 27 Mar 2009 at 09:30

I beg to move, That the House sit in private.

Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163).

The House having divided: Ayes 0, Noes 48.

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Party Summary

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.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con13 006.7%
Lab29 (+2 tell) 008.9%
LDem5 0 (+2 tell)011.1%
SNP1 0014.3%
Total:48 008.5%

All Votes Cast - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party are marked in red. Also shows which MPs were ministers at the time of this vote. You can also see every eligible MP including those who did not vote in this division.

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Henry BellinghamNorth West NorfolkCon (front bench)no
Peter BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)no
Alistair BurtNorth East BedfordshireCon (front bench)no
Christopher ChopeChristchurchCon (front bench)no
Stephen CrabbPreseli PembrokeshireCon (front bench)no
Philip DaviesShipleyConno
Nigel EvansRibble ValleyConno
Nick GibbBognor Regis and LittlehamptonCon (front bench)no
John GummerSuffolk CoastalConno
Edward LeighGainsboroughCon (front bench)no
Andrew MacKayBracknellCon (front bench)no
Bill WigginLeominsterCon (front bench)no
Jeremy WrightRugby and KenilworthCon (front bench)no
Liz BlackmanErewashLab (minister)no
Kevin BrennanCardiff WestLab (minister)no
Chris BryantRhonddaLab (minister)no
Dawn ButlerBrent SouthLab (minister)no
Alan CampbellTynemouthLab (minister)no
Mary CreaghWakefieldLab (minister)no
Jim FitzpatrickPoplar and Canning TownLab (minister)no
Michael FosterWorcesterLab (minister)no
John GroganSelbyLab (minister)no
Sharon HodgsonGateshead East and Washington WestLab (minister)no
Diana R. JohnsonKingston upon Hull NorthLab (minister)no
Kevan JonesNorth DurhamLab (minister)no
Jim KnightSouth DorsetLab (minister)no
David LammyTottenhamLab (minister)no
Andrew MacKinlayThurrockLab (minister)no
Denis MacShaneRotherhamLabtellno
Shahid MalikDewsburyLab (minister)no
Thomas McAvoyRutherglen and Hamilton WestLab (minister)no
Sarah McCarthy-FryPortsmouth NorthLab (minister)no
Jim McGovernDundee WestLab (minister)no
Tony McNultyHarrow EastLab (minister)no
Mike O'BrienNorth WarwickshireLab (minister)no
Bill OlnerNuneatonLab (minister)no
Ian PearsonDudley SouthLab (minister)no
Steve PoundEaling NorthLab (minister)tellno
Frank RoyMotherwell and WishawLab (minister)no
Siôn SimonBirmingham, ErdingtonLab (minister)no
John SpellarWarleyLab (minister)no
Jack StrawBlackburnLab (minister)no
Gerry SutcliffeBradford SouthLab (minister)no
Emily ThornberryIslington South and FinsburyLab (minister)no
Simon HughesNorth Southwark and BermondseyLDem (front bench)tellaye
Richard Younger-RossTeignbridgeLDem (front bench)tellaye
Evan HarrisOxford West and AbingdonLDem (front bench)no
David HowarthCambridgeLDem (front bench)no
David LawsYeovilLDem (front bench)no
Alan ReidArgyll and ButeLDem (front bench)no
Willie RennieDunfermline and West FifeLDem (front bench)no
Angus RobertsonMoraySNP (front bench)no

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