The majority of MPs voted for an amendment to the Recall of MPs Bill which was intended, along with other amendments, to ensure a new election for an MP could be triggered as a result of an offence committed before an individual became an MP, and before the Recall of MPs Bill came into force, but were only convicted of it afterwards.
MPs were considering the Recall of MPs Bill[1].
The amendment supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote stated:
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page 2, line 18, leave out “The reference in” and insert “In”.
This affected clause 2[2] subsection(1) of the Bill which, prior to the vote, stated:
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(1) The reference in section 1(3) (the first recall condition) to an offence—
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(a) includes an offence committed before the MP became an MP, but
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(b) does not include an offence committed before the day on which section 1 comes into force.
The MP moving the motion provided an explanation of its intent:
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This amendment and amendment 17 ensure that a recall petition may be triggered by an offence committed before the day Clause 1 comes into force where an MP is convicted of the offence on or after that day and after he or she last became an MP.
Amendment 17 stated:
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Clause 2, page 2, line 18, leave out “to an offence” and insert—
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“(a) the reference to an offence includes an offence committed before the MP became an MP and an offence committed before the day on which section 1 comes into force, but
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(b) the reference to an MP being convicted of an offence is only to an MP being convicted of an offence on or after that day.”
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Anne Begg | Aberdeen South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con | no |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Green | Ashford | Con | no |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sandra Osborne | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Naomi Long | Belfast East | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gisela Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | aye |
| Julie Hilling | Bolton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con | no |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | Bradford South | Lab | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Kirby | Brighton, Kemptown | Con | aye |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Williams | Bristol West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Thurso | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Craig Whittaker | Calder Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Huppert | Cambridge | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jennifer Willott | Cardiff Central | LDem | aye |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | no |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | aye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Mosley | City of Chester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con | aye |
| Tom Clarke | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andy Sawford | Corby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Hanson | Delyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rosie Winterton | Doncaster Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Russell Brown | Dumfries and Galloway | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Thomas Docherty | Dunfermline and West Fife | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael McCann | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fiona O'Donnell | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Lloyd | Eastbourne | LDem | aye |
| Mike Thornton | Eastleigh | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen O'Brien | Eddisbury | Con | no |
| Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lazarowicz | Edinburgh North and Leith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Miller | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con | aye |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con | aye |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ann McKechin | Glasgow North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| William Bain | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lindsay Roy | Glenrothes | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con | aye |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Garnier | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem | aye |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | aye |
| Liz McInnes | Heywood and Middleton | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con | tellno |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Weatherley | Hove | Con | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain McKenzie | Inverclyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Cathy Jamieson | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graeme Morrice | Livingston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con | aye |
| Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | no |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| David Hamilton | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con | aye |
| Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Frank Roy | Motherwell and Wishaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Jenrick | Newark | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sylvia Hermon | North Down | Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | no |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con | no |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Wright | Norwich South | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Sheridan | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | aye |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jim Fitzpatrick | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst Independent | aye |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem | aye |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Danczuk | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | aye |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Haselhurst | Saffron Walden | Con (front bench) | no |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bill Esterson | Sefton Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Munn | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab | no |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con | aye |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Fiona Mactaggart | Slough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con | no |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Dave Watts | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con | aye |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Therese Coffey | Suffolk Coastal | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Wright | Telford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Ruane | Vale of Clwyd | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gemma Doyle | West Dunbartonshire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | no |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
| Emma Reynolds | Wolverhampton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Lucas | Wrexham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
