Devolution of Powers Relating to Energy Generation to the National Assembly for Wales. — 31 Jan 2012 at 17:16
The majority of MPs voted against devolving powers relating to energy generation to the National Assembly for Wales.
The rejected motion was:
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That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide that powers relating to energy generation in Wales be devolved to the National Assembly for Wales; and for connected purposes.
Debate in Parliament | Source |
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | no |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem | aye |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | no |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem | aye |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | no |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | tellaye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem | aye |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | no |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con | no |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | no |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | no |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | no |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab | no |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | no |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | no |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con | no |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | no |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | no |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab | no |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | no |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | no |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con | no |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab | no |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | no |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | no |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | no |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | no |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | no |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | no |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | no |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab | no |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab | no |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | no |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | 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 | no |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | no |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab | aye |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | no |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con | no |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab | no |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | no |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | no |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | no |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | no |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | no |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | no |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab | no |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | no |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | no |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | no |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | no |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con | no |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | no |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | aye |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con | no |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | no |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | no |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | no |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab | 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 |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | no |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | no |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | no |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | no |
