The majority of MPs voted against an amendment intended to remove written tests from the process of appointing judges in the UK.
New clause 22 proposed amending section 88 of the Consitutional Reform Act 2005 to add the words: "At no stage during any selection procedure may the [Judicial Appointments] Commission apply any written tests.”
[1]
In the debate
[2] Conservative Shadow Minister for Justice Henry Bellingham argued against the tests
[3] as they have the side effect of making the fact someone has applied for a judicial position public.
Government Minister Michael Wills said there were arguments for and against written tests and the independent Judicial Appointments Commission should determine the selection processes.
[4]
The Committee of the whole house divided: Ayes 150, Noes 329.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Ainsworth | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ancram | Devizes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Atkinson | Hexham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Boswell | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Browning | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Burns | West Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Butterfill | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Carswell | Harwich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | Cotswold | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Cormack | South Staffordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| David Curry | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | aye |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Fraser | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Goodman | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Gummer | Suffolk Coastal | Con | aye |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Hammersmith and Fulham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Heathcoat-Amory | Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | UUP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Hogg | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Horam | Orpington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip - Northwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Jack | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Key | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julie Kirkbride | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jacqui Lait | Beckenham | Con | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Maclean | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Maples | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Vale of York | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | West Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Moss | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iris Robinson | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | aye |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Keith Simpson | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con | aye |
| Michael Spicer | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Spring | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anthony Steen | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con | aye |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con | aye |
| Ian Taylor | Esher and Walton | Con | aye |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Viggers | Gosport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Wallace | Lancaster and Wyre | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Waterson | Eastbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Upminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Ann Winterton | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Wright | Rugby and Kenilworth | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | no |
| Nick Ainger | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward Balls | Normanton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Barrett | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab | no |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hazel Blears | Salford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Borrow | South Ribble | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab (minister) | no |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dawn Butler | Brent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | no |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Richard Caborn | Sheffield Central | Lab | no |
| David Cairns | Inverclyde | Lab | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Cawsey | Brigg and Goole | Lab (minister) | no |
| Colin Challen | Morley and Rothwell | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | no |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Clark | Gillingham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Cook | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | no |
| Jim Cousins | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | no |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | no |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Claire Curtis-Thomas | Crosby | Lab | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dai Davies | Blaenau Gwent | Independent | no |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | no |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | no |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab | no |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeff Ennis | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Lab | no |
| Bill Etherington | Sunderland North | Lab | no |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab | no |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab | no |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab | no |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Neil Gerrard | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Griffiths | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Evan Harris | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Doug Henderson | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Stephen Hesford | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patricia Hewitt | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab | no |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Holmes | Chesterfield | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoff Hoon | Ashfield | Lab | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab | no |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | no |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ruth Kelly | Bolton West | Lab | no |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | no |
| Jane Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | no |
| Jim Knight | South Dorset | Lab (minister) | no |
| Susan Kramer | Richmond Park | LDem | no |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab | no |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | no |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Lepper | Brighton, Pavilion | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | PC (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shahid Malik | Dewsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Judy Mallaber | Amber Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris McCafferty | Calder Valley | Lab | no |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian McCartney | Makerfield | Lab | no |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | no |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| John McFall | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab | no |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab | no |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab | no |
| Gillian Merron | Lincoln | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab | no |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kali Mountford | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab | no |
| Mike O'Brien | North Warwickshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Edward O'Hara | Knowsley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lembit Öpik | Montgomeryshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Pope | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Purnell | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab | no |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | no |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Reid | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | no |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mohammad Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jonathan R Shaw | Chatham and Aylesford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angela Smith | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jacqui Smith | Redditch | Lab | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab | no |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Southworth | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab (minister) | no |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Stringer | Manchester, Blackley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Teather | Brent East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | no |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | no |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | no |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | no |
| Neil Turner | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kitty Ussher | Burnley | Lab | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Claire Ward | Watford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | no |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | no |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anthony D Wright | Great Yarmouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Younger-Ross | Teignbridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
