European Union External Action Service — 14 Jul 2010 at 18:57
The majority of MPs voted to support the establishment of a European Union External Action Service.
The main elements of this service are the appointments of:
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A President of the European Council appointed for a renewable term of two and a half years.
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A High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
The motion approved read:
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That this House takes note of European Document Nos. 8029/10 and 11507/10, draft Council Decisions establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service; European Document No. 8134/10, draft Regulation on the Financial Regulations for the European External Action Service; and an unnumbered draft Regulation amending Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the conditions of employment of other servants of those Communities; and supports the Government's policy to agree to the Decision establishing the External Action Service at the Foreign Affairs Council in July 2010.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | aye |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con | aye |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | aye |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con | aye |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con | aye |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con | aye |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | aye |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con | aye |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | aye |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | aye |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con | aye |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con | aye |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | aye |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | aye |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con | aye |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con | aye |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | 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 |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con | aye |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con | aye |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con | aye |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con | aye |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con | aye |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | aye |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con | aye |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con | aye |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con | aye |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con | aye |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | aye |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | aye |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con | aye |
| Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | aye |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con | aye |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | aye |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con | aye |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con | aye |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con | aye |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | aye |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con | aye |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con | aye |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con | aye |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con | aye |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con | aye |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con | aye |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con | aye |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | aye |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con | aye |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | aye |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con | aye |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | aye |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con | aye |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | aye |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con | aye |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con | aye |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con | aye |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | aye |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con | aye |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | aye |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con | tellno |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | both |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab | aye |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | aye |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem | aye |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem | aye |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
