Foreign and Commonwealth Office — Business without Debate — Census — 1 Dec 2009 at 18:37
Question put forthwith (Order, 23 November) , That the amendment be made.
The House divided: Ayes 49, Noes 261.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Judy Mallaber | Amber Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Clapham | Barnsley West and Penistone | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hutton | Barrow and Furness | Lab | no |
| Angela Smith | Basildon | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Linton | Battersea | Lab | no |
| Patrick Hall | Bedford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Siôn Simon | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath | Lab | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dai Davies | Blaenau Gwent | Independent | aye |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Iddon | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ruth Kelly | Bolton West | Lab | no |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Terry Rooney | Bradford North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab | no |
| Dawn Butler | Brent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Keen | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Cawsey | Brigg and Goole | 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 |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Palmer | Broxtowe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Janet Dean | Burton | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Chaytor | Bury North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Caernarfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Howarth | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Wright | Cannock Chase | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Martlew | Carlisle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Spink | Castle Point | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christine Russell | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hugh Bayley | City of York | Lab (minister) | no |
| Shona McIsaac | Cleethorpes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martyn Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kali Mountford | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Hope | Corby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | no |
| Laura Moffatt | Crawley | Lab | no |
| Andrew Pelling | Croydon Central | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | no |
| Rosemary McKenna | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham | Lab | no |
| Alan Milburn | Darlington | Lab | no |
| Howard Stoate | Dartford | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Laxton | Derby North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab | no |
| Shahid Malik | Dewsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gwyn Prosser | Dover | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Pearson | Dudley South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | no |
| Willie Rennie | Dunfermline and West Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Cummings | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Anne Moffat | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Stewart | Eccles | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gavin Strang | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab | no |
| Joan Ryan | Enfield North | Lab | no |
| Liz Blackman | Erewash | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | no |
| Julia Goldsworthy | Falmouth and Camborne | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Keen | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sharon Hodgson | Gateshead East and Washington West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | no |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab | no |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Parmjit Dhanda | Gloucester | Lab | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | no |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Highgate | Lab | no |
| Bill Rammell | Harlow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Willis | Harrogate and Knaresborough | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tony McNulty | Harrow East | Lab | no |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Jabez Foster | Hastings and Rye | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | no |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Keetch | Hereford | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Levitt | High Peak | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Fraser Kemp | Houghton and Washington East | Lab | no |
| Celia Barlow | Hove | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Pope | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Mole | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab | no |
| Don Touhig | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Cryer | Keighley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Des Browne | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab | no |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Roger Berry | Kingswood | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Battle | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patricia Hewitt | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bridget Prentice | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harry Cohen | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Liverpool, Garston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Kilfoyle | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andy Reed | Loughborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian McCartney | Makerfield | Lab | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Robert Marshall-Andrews | Medway | Lab | no |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ashok Kumar | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phyllis Starkey | Milton Keynes South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geraldine Smith | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lab (minister) | no |
| Colin Challen | Morley and Rothwell | Lab (minister) | no |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Paisley | North Antrim | DUP | no |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | North Southwark and Bermondsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Wills | North Swindon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Byers | North Tyneside | Lab | no |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sally Keeble | Northampton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steve Webb | Northavon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Clarke | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Heppell | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Woolas | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Devonport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Linda Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Yvette Cooper | Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kim Howells | Pontypridd | Lab | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Canning Town | Lab (minister) | no |
| Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Portsmouth North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Martin Salter | Reading West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vera Baird | Redcar | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karen Buck | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Rowen | Rochdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sandra Gidley | Romsey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Janet Anderson | Rossendale and Darwen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Thomas McAvoy | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elliot Morley | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | no |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Caborn | Sheffield Central | Lab | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Angela Smith | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paddy Tipping | Sherwood | Lab (minister) | no |
| Derek Wyatt | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Mark Todd | South Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Knight | South Dorset | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eddie McGrady | South Down | SDLP | no |
| David Miliband | South Shields | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anne Snelgrove | South Swindon | Lab | no |
| Stephen Ladyman | South Thanet | Lab | no |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Kidney | Stafford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Follett | Stevenage | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dari Taylor | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab | no |
| Lynda Waltho | Stourbridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Keith Hill | Streatham | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Mullin | Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Williams | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brian Jenkins | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Thurrock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab | no |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Matthew Taylor | Truro and St Austell | LDem | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Clelland | Tyne Bridge | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab | 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 |
| Denis Murphy | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Norris | Wansdyke | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Southworth | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Plaskitt | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bob Blizzard | Waveney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mike Hall | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Healey | Wentworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Turner | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Chapman | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hesford | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab | no |
| Michael Foster | Worcester | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Taylor | Wyre Forest | Independent (front bench) | no |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
