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