Iraq Inquiry — Parliament to set the terms of reference — rejected — 24 Jun 2009 at 18:43
The majority of MPs voted to let the Government, rather than MPs in the House of Commons, set the terms of reference for the Iraq inquiry.
The majority of MPs voted against the motion, which read:[1]
- This House
- while welcoming the announcement by the Government of an Inquiry into the war in Iraq,
- believes that the proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry should whenever possible be held in public and that the membership of the Committee should be wider and more diverse than the Government has proposed, and
- calls on the Government to revise its proposals for the Inquiry to meet these and other objections raised by hon. Members and to submit proposed terms of reference for it to the House on a substantive motion for full debate and scrutiny.
In the next vote,[2] a government sponsored motion was adopted.
- [1] William Hague MP, House of Commons, 24 June 2009
- [2] Iraq Inquiry - Welcomes the inquiry, House of Commons Division, 24 June 2009
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.
Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 0 | 173 (+2 tell) | 0 | 91.1% |
DUP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22.2% |
Independent | 1 | 4 | 0 | 83.3% |
Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 296 (+2 tell) | 19 | 0 | 90.8% |
LDem | 0 | 53 | 0 | 84.1% |
PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
Respect | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
SNP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 71.4% |
Total: | 299 | 260 | 0 | 88.8% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by vote
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab | aye |
David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | aye |
Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | Lab | aye |
Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | aye |
Robert Marshall-Andrews | Medway | Lab | aye |
John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | aye |
Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | aye |