The majority of MPs voted against adding further restrictions to the circumstances in which someone other than the author, editor or publisher of material can have a defamation action brought against them. The additional restrictions being that there must be a prima facia case that the statement complained of is defamatory and the court must be satisfied that such person did not know that the statement was defamatory until a claim to that effect was made and did not reasonably believe that there was a good defence to any action brought upon it.’
MPs were considering the Defamation Bill[1][2]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
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Amendment 8, page 8, line 26, leave out from ‘court’ to end of line 28 and insert—
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‘(a) is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable for an action to be brought against the author, editor or publisher; and
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(b) there is a prima facia case that the statement complained of is defamatory; and
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(c) is satisfied that such person did not know that the statement was defamatory until a claim to that effect was made and did not reasonably believe that there was a good defence to any action brought upon it.’.
This would have affected clause 10 of the Bill[3] which at the time of the vote stated:
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Action against a person who was not the author, editor etc
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1) A court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action for defamation brought against a person who was not the author, editor or
publisher of the statement complained of unless the court is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable for an action to be brought against the author, editor or publisher.
and had the amendment been passed it would have become:
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Action against a person who was not the author, editor etc
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1) A court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action for defamation brought against a person who was not the author, editor or
publisher of the statement complained of unless the court
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‘(a) is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable for an action to be brought against the author, editor or publisher; and
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(b) there is a prima facia case that the statement complained of is defamatory; and
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(c) is satisfied that such person did not know that the statement was defamatory until a claim to that effect was made and did not reasonably believe that there was a good defence to any action brought upon it.’.
Examples of persons who are not to be considered the author, editor or publisher are contained in subsection (3) of section 1 of the Defamation Act 1996 and include those involved in printing, producing, distributing material containing the statement; the broadcaster of a live programme containing the statement and the operator of or provider of access to a communications system by means of which the statement is transmitted.
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Debate in Parliament | Source |
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.
Includes MPs who were absent (or abstained)
from this vote.
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | no |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Arbuthnot | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con | no |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con | no |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | no |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | no |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Aidan Burley | Cannock Chase | Con | no |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | no |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | no |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | no |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con | no |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | no |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con | no |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con | no |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con | no |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | no |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con | no |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con | no |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con | no |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con | no |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | no |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con | no |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con | no |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | no |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | no |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | no |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con (front bench) | no |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | no |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con | no |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mary Macleod | Brentford and Isleworth | Con | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | no |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | no |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | no |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con | no |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con | no |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | no |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con | no |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | no |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | no |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | no |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con | no |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con | no |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | no |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | no |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | no |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | no |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Keith Simpson | Broadland | Con | no |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | no |
| Anna Soubry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con | no |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con | no |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con | no |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Peter Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Tredinnick | Bosworth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | no |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | no |
| Robert Walter | North Dorset | Con | no |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | no |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con | no |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | no |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | no |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con | no |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con | absent |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con | absent |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Cameron | Witney | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | absent |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | absent |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | absent |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | absent |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | absent |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con | absent |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con | absent |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con | absent |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | absent |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | absent |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | absent |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con | absent |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | absent |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | absent |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | absent |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | absent |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | absent |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | absent |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Ainsworth | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Douglas Alexander | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joe Benton | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport | Lab | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab | aye |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Curran | Glasgow East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dobbin | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | aye |
| Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | aye |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Doran | Aberdeen North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Dowd | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Dugher | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Natascha Engel | North East Derbyshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Flello | Stoke-on-Trent South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Goggins | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Hain | Neath | Lab | aye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab | aye |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Johnson | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tessa Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab | aye |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Lammy | Tottenham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ivan Lewis | Bury South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gregg McClymont | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | aye |
| David Miliband | South Shields | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab | aye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab | aye |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Raynsford | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab | aye |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Joan Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab | aye |
| Anas Sarwar | Glasgow Central | Lab | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Smith | Oxford East | Lab | aye |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Straw | Blackburn | Lab | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | aye |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keith Vaz | Leicester East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Watson | West Bromwich East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain Wright | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Anderson | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Edward Balls | Morley and Outwood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hugh Bayley | York Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Stuart Bell | Middlesbrough | Lab | absent |
| Luciana Berger | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Hazel Blears | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Gordon Brown | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab | absent |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Andy Burnham | Leigh | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alistair Darling | Edinburgh South West | Lab | absent |
| John Denham | Southampton, Itchen | Lab | absent |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | absent |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Roger Godsiff | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab | absent |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | absent |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Lindsay Hoyle | Chorley | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Siân James | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Eric Joyce | Falkirk | Lab | absent |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab | absent |
| Andrew Love | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | absent |
| Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Michael Meacher | Oldham West and Royton | Lab | absent |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jim Murphy | East Renfrewshire | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Albert Owen | Ynys Môn | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Dawn Primarolo | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Steve Rotheram | Liverpool, Walton | Lab | absent |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab | absent |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Joan Walley | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Malcolm Wicks | Croydon North | Lab | absent |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | absent |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | absent |
| Shaun Woodward | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab | absent |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem | no |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | no |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | no |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | tellno |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | no |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | no |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | no |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (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 |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | absent |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem | absent |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | absent |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | absent |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem | absent |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | absent |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | absent |
| George Galloway | Bradford West | Respect | absent |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | absent |
| Pat Doherty | West Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Michelle Gildernew | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | SF | absent |
| Paul Maskey | Belfast West | SF | absent |
| Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | absent |
| Conor Murphy | Newry and Armagh | SF | absent |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | absent |
| John Bercow | Buckingham | Speaker (front bench) | absent |
