MPs were considering the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill[1].
The majority of MPs voted to curtail debate and move to a vote on if the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill should be read a second time and continue on its path to becoming law; enabling other Bills to be considered.
The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
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That the Question be now put.
The question in question which was unanimously agreed following the vote was:
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That the Bill be now read a Second time.
The Bill contains provisions to
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retain the number of MPs at 650, rather than reduce it to 600.
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carry out boundary commission reviews of constituencies every ten, rather than five, years; after a report to be published by 1 October 2018.
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requiring constituencies to have a number of electors within 10% of the UK average, with the exception of four island constituencies (Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney and Shetland and two seats for the Isle of Wight).
The vote was held at 12:56pm[3]. The order paper for the day[4] stated:
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If proceedings on the first Bill end before 2.30pm, subsequent Bills may be debated in the time remaining.
It may be those voting to curtail the debate and hold the vote wanted to see debate on a further bill, or bills, occur. Had the time allocated expired the proceedings via Standing Orders 11(2) "Friday Sittings" [5] and 9(4) "Sittings of the House"[6] would have enabled the question of a second reading to be put to the house.
The impact of this vote appears primarily to have been to curtail debate on the Bill and enable a further Bill or Bills to be considered.
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Debate in Parliament |
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.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Edward Argar | Charnwood | Con | no |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Suella Braverman | Fareham | Con | no |
| James Cartlidge | South Suffolk | Con | no |
| Maria Caulfield | Lewes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michelle Donelan | Chippenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Oliver Dowden | Hertsmere | Con | no |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Foster | Torbay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lucy Frazer | South East Cambridgeshire | Con | no |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | whilst Con (front bench) | no |
| Luke Hall | Thornbury and Yate | Con | no |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con | no |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| James Heappey | Wells | Con | no |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kevin Hollinrake | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con | no |
| Esther McVey | Tatton | Con (front bench) | no |
| Huw Merriman | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | no |
| Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con | no |
| Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con | no |
| Victoria Prentis | Banbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Rishi Sunak | Richmond (Yorks) | Con | no |
| Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Con | no |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Kelvin Hopkins | Luton North | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| Lord John [Missing last name for 41744] | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab | aye |
| Rosena Allin-Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Amesbury | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tonia Antoniazzi | Gower | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Adrian Bailey | West Bromwich West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kevin Barron | Rother Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Roberta Blackman-Woods | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tracy Brabin | Batley and Spen | Lab (minister) | 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 |
| Chris Bryant | Rhondda | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karen Buck | Westminster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Burden | Birmingham, Northfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Richard Burgon | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dawn Butler | Brent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ruth Cadbury | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | aye |
| Dan Carden | Liverpool, Walton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jenny Chapman | Darlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bambos Charalambous | Enfield, Southgate | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vernon Coaker | Gedling | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Cooper | Burnley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Neil Coyle | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Crausby | Bolton North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Creagh | Wakefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Judith Cummins | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim Cunningham | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Marsha de Cordova | Battersea | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gloria De Piero | Ashfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Thangam Debbonaire | Bristol West | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Emma Dent Coad | Kensington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Anneliese Dodds | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Dowd | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| David Drew | Stroud | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jack Dromey | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rosie Duffield | Canterbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Eagle | Wallasey | Lab | aye |
| Maria Eagle | Garston and Halewood | Lab | aye |
| Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab | aye |
| Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Colleen Fletcher | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Caroline Flint | Don Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Vicky Foxcroft | Lewisham, Deptford | Lab (minister) | aye |
| James Frith | Bury North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gill Furniss | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hugh Gaffney | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Gapes | Ilford South | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ruth George | High Peak | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Preet Kaur Gill | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Grogan | Keighley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Louise Haigh | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Emma Hardy | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mark Hendrick | Preston | Lab | aye |
| Stephen Hepburn | Jarrow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Hill | Hartlepool | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rupa Huq | Ealing Central and Acton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Imran Hussain | Bradford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Darren Jones | Bristol North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gerald Jones | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Jones | Hyndburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sarah Jones | Croydon Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Susan Elan Jones | Clwyd South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab | aye |
| Afzal Khan | Manchester, Gorton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ged Killen | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Peter Kyle | Hove | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lesley Laird | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Karen Lee | Lincoln | Lab | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tony Lloyd | Rochdale | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rebecca Long-Bailey | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Holly Lynch | Halifax | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Justin Madders | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Shabana Mahmood | Birmingham, Ladywood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gordon Marsden | Blackpool South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Sandy Martin | Ipswich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rachael Maskell | York Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Matheson | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Siobhain McDonagh | Mitcham and Morden | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Conor McGinn | St Helens North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz McInnes | Heywood and Middleton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jim McMahon | Oldham West and Royton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Mearns | Gateshead | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab | aye |
| Madeleine Moon | Bridgend | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab | aye |
| Alex Norris | Nottingham North | Lab | aye |
| Fiona Onasanya | Peterborough | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Melanie Onn | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Kate Osamor | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stephanie Peacock | Barnsley East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Teresa Pearce | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab | aye |
| Matthew Pennycook | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Toby Perkins | Chesterfield | Lab | aye |
| Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Laura Pidcock | North West Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jo Platt | Leigh | Lab | aye |
| Luke Pollard | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Faisal Rashid | Warrington South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Rayner | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ellie Reeves | Lewisham West and Penge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Marie Rimmer | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab | aye |
| Matt Rodda | Reading East | Lab | aye |
| Danielle Rowley | Midlothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Naseem Shah | Bradford West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
| Paula Sherriff | Dewsbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Tulip Siddiq | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab | aye |
| Ruth Smeeth | Stoke-on-Trent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Angela Smith | Penistone and Stocksbridge | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Eleanor Smith | Wolverhampton South West | Lab | aye |
| Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Laura Smith | Crewe and Nantwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
| Karin Smyth | Bristol South | Lab | aye |
| Gareth Snell | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alex Sobel | Leeds North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Keir Starmer | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Sweeney | Glasgow North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Gareth Thomas | Harrow West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Nick Thomas-Symonds | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Emily Thornberry | Islington South and Finsbury | 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 |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Liz Twist | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chuka Umunna | Streatham | whilst Lab | aye |
| Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Thelma Walker | Colne Valley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Catherine West | Hornsey and Wood Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Matt Western | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Martin Whitfield | East Lothian | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Paul Williams | Stockton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Chris Williamson | Derby North | whilst Lab (front bench) | aye |
| Phil Wilson | Sedgefield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Woodcock | Barrow and Furness | whilst Lab | aye |
| Mohammad Yasin | Bedford | Lab | aye |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
