Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill — 4 Nov 2014 at 13:28
The majority of MPs voted in favour of clarifying that abortions on the grounds of the sex of the unborn child are not permitted.
The majority of MPs taking part in this vote voted in favour of the following motion:
-
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to clarify the law relating to abortion on the basis of sex-selection; and for connected purposes.
While the text of the Bill[1] was not available at the time of the vote the MP seeking permission to bring in the Bill stated[2]:
-
The Bill is extremely straightforward, merely clarifying that nothing in section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967 allows a pregnancy to be terminated on the grounds of the sex of the unborn child.
==
Debate in Parliament | Source |
Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please
consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to
Octopus Energy or
tip us via Ko-Fi.
MPs
for which their vote in this division differed
from the majority vote of their party are marked in red.
Also shows which MPs
were ministers at the time of this vote.
You can also see every eligible MP
including those who did not vote in this division.
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con | aye |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brian Binley | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | aye |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | aye |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con | aye |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | aye |
| Chris Kelly | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | 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 |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Prisk | Hertford and Stortford | Con | aye |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con | aye |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con | aye |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | aye |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con | aye |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP | aye |
| Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | tellaye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Austin | Dudley North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Banks | Ochil and South Perthshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Caton | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Katy Clark | North Ayrshire and Arran | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Cunningham | Workington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | aye |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Field | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hywel Francis | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | 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 |
| Kate Hoey | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jimmy Hood | Lanark and Hamilton East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barbara Keeley | Worsley and Eccles South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McGovern | Dundee West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anne McGuire | Stirling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz McInnes | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Murphy | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Robertson | Glasgow North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alison Seabeck | Plymouth, Moor View | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Winnick | Walsall North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Glenda Jackson | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | no |
| Jeremy Browne | Taunton Deane | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | 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 |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
