House of Commons
Session 2010-12
House of Commons Votes and Proceedings
Wednesday
19th May 2010
No. 2
Wednesday 19 May 2010
The House met at 3.10 pm.
1 The Speaker Elect
The Speaker Elect took the Chair.
2 Message to attend the Lords Commissioners
Message from the Lords Commissioners delivered by the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod:
Mr Speaker Elect, The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Lords.
3 Attendance in the House of Lords
The Speaker Elect, with the House, went up to the House of Lords.
The Speaker Elect was presented to the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Royal Approbation.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Lords, one of the Lords Commissioners, signified Her Majesty’s Approbation of the Speaker Elect.
The House returned.
4 The Speaker
The Speaker reported, That the House had been in the House of Lords, where Her Majesty was pleased by Her Majesty’s Commissioners to approve the choice the House had made of him to be its Speaker and that he had in its name and on its behalf by humble Petition to Her Majesty made claim to all its ancient and undoubted Rights and Privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction should be placed upon all its proceedings; which he said Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, had been pleased to allow and confirm to it in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by Her Majesty or any of Her Majesty’s Royal Predecessors.
The Speaker repeated his very respectful acknowledgements and grateful thanks to the House for the great honour it had conferred upon him, and renewed the assurance of his entire devotion to the service of the House.
The Speaker reminded the House that the first thing to be done was to take and subscribe the Oath required by law.
5 Making of the Affirmation: the Speaker
The Speaker first, alone, standing on the upper step of the Chair, made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law.
6 Taking of the Oath or making of the Affirmation
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell |
for Louth and Horncastle |
Right honourable David William Donald Cameron |
Witney |
Right honourable Nicholas William Peter Clegg |
Sheffield, Hallam |
Right honourable William Jefferson Hague |
Richmond (Yorks) |
Right honourable George Gideon Oliver Osborne |
Tatton |
Right honourable David Anthony Laws |
Yeovil |
Right honourable Liam Fox |
North Somerset |
Right honourable Eric Jack Pickles |
Brentwood and Ongar |
Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke |
Rushcliffe |
Right honourable Andrew David Lansley |
South Cambridgeshire |
Right honourable Christopher Murray Paul Huhne |
Eastleigh |
Right honourable Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt |
South West Surrey |
Right honourable Philip Hammond |
Runnymede and Weybridge |
Right honourable Michael Andrew Gove |
Surrey Heath |
Right honourable Oliver Letwin |
West Dorset |
Right honourable Caroline Alice Spelman |
Meriden |
Right honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude |
Horsham |
Right honourable George Iain Duncan Smith |
Chingford and Woodford Green |
Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young |
North West Hampshire |
Right honourable Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve |
Beaconsfield |
Right honourable Patrick Allen McLoughlin |
Derbyshire Dales |
Right honourable David Wright Miliband |
South Shields |
Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling |
Edinburgh South West |
Right honourable Harriet Harman |
Camberwell and Peckham |
Right honourable Alan Arthur Johnson |
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle |
Right honourable Hilary James Benn |
Leeds Central |
Right honourable Yvette Cooper |
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford |
Right honourable Robert William Ainsworth |
Coventry North East |
Right honourable John Yorke Denham |
Southampton, Itchen |
Right honourable Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw |
Exeter |
Right honourable Shaun Anthony Woodward |
St Helens South and Whiston |
Right honourable Dawn Primarolo |
Bristol South |
Right honourable Sadiq Aman Khan |
Tooting |
Right honourable John Healey |
Wentworth and Dearne |
Right honourable Rosalie Winterton |
Doncaster Central |
Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown |
Newcastle upon Tyne East |
Right honourable Daniel Grian Alexander |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey |
Alexander Morrison Carmichael |
Orkney and Shetland |
Right honourable Sir Alan James Beith |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Right honourable Keith Anthony Vaz |
Leicester East |
Right honourable Thomas Clarke |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill |
Right honourable Charles Peter Kennedy |
Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
Right honourable Anne Catherine McGuire |
Stirling |
Right honourable David George Hanson |
Delyn |
Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett |
Derby South |
Right honourable Sir Walter Menzies Campbell |
North East Fife |
Right honourable Malcolm Gray Bruce |
Gordon |
Right honourable Andrew David Smith |
Oxford East |
Right honourable Caroline Louise Flint |
Don Valley |
Right honourable Ann Clwyd |
Cynon Valley |
Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley |
Tonbridge and Malling |
Right honourable Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst |
Saffron Walden |
Right honourable George Edward Howarth |
Knowsley |
Right honourable Alun Edward Michael |
Cardiff South and Penarth |
Right honourable Paul Peter Murphy |
Torfaen |
Right honourable John Francis Spellar |
Warley |
Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson |
Holborn and St Pancras |
Right honourable Paul Gerard Goggins |
Wythenshawe and Sale East |
Right honourable Denis MacShane |
Rotherham |
Alistair James Hendrie Burt |
North East Bedfordshire |
Edward Henry Garnier |
Harborough |
Damian Howard Green |
Ashford |
Alan James Carter Duncan |
Rutland and Melton |
David Roy Lidington |
Aylesbury |
Jeremy Richard Browne |
Taunton Deane |
Timothy Paul Loughton |
East Worthing and Shoreham |
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt |
Reigate |
Charles Hendry |
Wealden |
Robert James MacGillivray Neill |
Bromley and Chiselhurst |
Nicolas John Gibb |
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton |
James Gerald Douglas Howarth |
Aldershot |
David Julian Winnick |
Walsall North |
Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd |
Aldridge-Brownhills |
Simon Henry Ward Hughes |
Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
Catharine Letitia Hoey |
Vauxhall |
Brian Harold Donohoe |
Central Ayrshire |
James Dolan Cunningham |
Coventry South |
Michael Cathel Fallon |
Sevenoaks |
Michael Alan Penning |
Hemel Hempstead |
David Gordon Mundell |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
Theresa Anne Villiers |
Chipping Barnet |
Andrew Peter Miller |
Ellesmere Port and Neston |
Richard Haines Burden |
Birmingham, Northfield |
Mark James Harper |
Forest of Dean |
John David Penrose |
Weston-Super-Mare |
Roger James Gale |
North Thanet |
Eric Evlyn Illsley |
Barnsley Central |
Gregory Leonard George Barker |
Bexhill and Battle |
James Whiteside Gray |
North Wiltshire |
Michael Louis David Fabricant |
Lichfield |
Alexander John Randall |
Uxbridge and South Ruislip |
Right honourable Malcolm Hunt Wicks |
Croydon North |
Mark James Hunter |
Cheadle |
Lee Scott |
Ilford North |
Gregory William Hands |
Chelsea and Fulham |
Shailesh Lakhman Vara |
North West Cambridgeshire |
Charles Ashley Rupert Walker |
Broxbourne |
William Nigel Paul Cash |
Stone |
Stephen Pelham Pound |
Ealing North |
Jeremy Paul Wright |
Kenilworth and Southam |
Stephen Crabb |
Preseli Pembrokeshire |
William David Wiggin |
North Herefordshire |
Philip Martin Dunne |
Ludlow |
Peter William Bone |
Wellingborough |
Henry Campbell Bellingham |
North West Norfolk |
Maria Frances Lewis Miller |
Basingstoke |
Angela Eileen Watkinson |
Hornchurch and Upminster |
Philip Thomas Hollobone |
Kettering |
Robert Goodwill |
Scarborough and Whitby |
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn |
Islington North |
Sir Alexander Paul Beresford |
Mole Valley |
Robert Andrew Raymond Syms |
Poole |
Gerard Sutcliffe |
Bradford South |
Fabian Hamilton |
Leeds North East |
Ronald Campbell |
Blyth Valley |
David Anderson |
Blaydon |
Gregory Lloyd Campbell |
East Londonderry |
Helen Mary Jones |
Warrington North |
John Derek Twigg |
Halton |
Elfyn Llwyd |
Dwyfor Meirionnydd |
David Anthony Andrew Amess |
Southend West |
Robert Thomas William McCrea |
South Antrim |
Nigel Alexander Dodds |
Belfast North |
Kevin Denis Brennan |
Cardiff West |
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle |
Chorley |
David Anthony Crausby |
Bolton North East |
David Leonard Watts |
St Helens North |
David Lindsay Willetts |
Havant |
Mark Michael Prisk |
Hertford and Stortford |
Justine Greening |
Putney |
Mark Gerard Hoban |
Fareham |
Nicholas Richard Hurd |
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner |
Adrian Mark Sanders |
Torbay |
Nicholas Barton Harvey |
North Devon |
Sarah Louise Teather |
Brent Central |
Right honourable John Vincent Cable |
Twickenham |
Barry John Sheerman |
Huddersfield |
Valerie Vaz |
Walsall South |
David Michael Gauke |
South West Hertfordshire |
Michael Connarty |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk |
Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher |
Oldham West and Royton |
Sandra Currie Osborne |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock |
Kevan David Jones |
North Durham |
Brian Arthur Roland Binley |
Northampton South |
Stewart Hosie |
Dundee East |
John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale |
Maldon |
William James Clappison |
Hertsmere |
Antony Brian Baldry |
Banbury |
Hugh Bayley |
York Central |
Joan Lorraine Walley |
Stoke-on-Trent North |
Julian William Hendy Brazier |
Canterbury |
Right honourable John Alan Redwood |
Wokingham |
Anthony Joseph Lloyd |
Manchester Central |
Glenda May Jackson |
Hampstead and Kilburn |
Maria Eagle |
Garston and Halewood |
Right honourable David Michael Davis |
Haltemprice and Howden |
David Wright |
Telford |
Andrew John Turner |
Isle of Wight |
Right honourable Douglas Garven Alexander |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South |
Sir Robert Hill Smith |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
John Webster Robertson |
Glasgow North West |
Alan Keen |
Feltham and Heston |
Andrew Henry George |
St Ives |
Margaret Ann Coffey |
Stockport |
Marek Jerzy Lazarowicz |
Edinburgh North and Leith |
Martin Phillip Caton |
Gower |
Edward Jonathon Davey |
Kingston and Surbiton |
Michael Kevin Moore |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies |
Ogmore |
Virendra Kumar Sharma |
Ealing, Southall |
Alan Campbell |
Tynemouth |
Angela Eagle |
Wallasey |
Joseph Edward Benton |
Bootle |
Ian Colin Lucas |
Wrexham |
Alasdair McDonnell |
Belfast South |
William Thomas Bain |
Glasgow North-East |
Christopher Michael Leslie |
Nottingham East |
Paul Phillip Flynn |
Newport West |
Austin Vernon Mitchell |
Great Grimsby |
Christopher Paul Farrelly |
Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Roger Hugh Williams |
Brecon and Radnorshire |
Mark Fraser Williams |
Ceredigion |
Stephen Roy Williams |
Bristol West |
Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns |
Chelmsford |
Thomas Anthony Cunningham |
Workington |
Thomas Anthony Brake |
Carshalton and Wallington |
Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames |
Mid Sussex |
Andrew Robert George Robathan |
South Leicestershire |
Catherine McKinnell |
Newcastle upon Tyne North |
John David Cairns |
Inverclyde |
Mark Christopher Field |
Cities of London and Westminster |
John Mark Durkan |
Foyle |
Martin Charles Horwood |
Cheltenham |
Julian Leon Huppert |
Cambridge |
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart |
Slough |
Madeleine Moon |
Bridgend |
Meg Hillier |
Hackney South and Shoreditch |
Hywel Williams |
Arfon |
Mike Wood |
Batley and Spen |
Siân Catherine James |
Swansea East |
Helen Catherine Goodman |
Bishop Auckland |
James Fitzpatrick |
Poplar and Limehouse |
Steven John Webb |
Thornbury and Yate |
Patrick John Mercer |
Newark |
Angus Struan Carolus Robertson |
Moray |
Joan Mary Ruddock |
Lewisham, Deptford |
Francis Doran |
Aberdeen North |
Sylvia Eileen, Lady Hermon |
North Down |
Mark Phillip Hendrick |
Preston |
Albert Owen |
Ynys Môn |
Clive James Charles Betts |
Sheffield South East |
Right honourable Patrick Bosco McFadden |
Wolverhampton South East |
Jessica Elizabeth Morden |
Newport East |
Peter Wishart |
Perth and North Perthshire |
Alan Reid |
Argyll and Bute |
Nia Rhiannon Griffith |
Llanelli |
James Edward Thornton Paice |
South East Cambridgeshire |
Anne Begg |
Aberdeen South |
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace |
Wyre and Preston North |
Christopher Stephen Grayling |
Epsom and Ewell |
Mark Gino Francois |
Rayleigh and Wickford |
Right honourable Theresa Mary May |
Maidenhead |
Richard Henry Ronald Benyon |
Newbury |
Rory Stewart |
Penrith and The Border |
Desmond Angus Swayne |
New Forest West |
Robert Alexander Stewart |
Beckenham |
John Alexander Melvin Hemming |
Birmingham, Yardley |
Christopher Heaton-Harris |
Daventry |
Hugh Michael Robertson |
Faversham and Mid Kent |
Iain Aitken Stewart |
Milton Keynes South |
Frank Roy |
Motherwell and Wishaw |
Julian Murray Lewis |
New Forest East |
Andrew James Bridgen |
North West Leicestershire |
Nigel John Mills |
Amber Valley |
Anne Frances Milton |
Guildford |
Right honourable David Lindon Lammy |
Tottenham |
Jonathan Simon Djanogly |
Huntingdon |
Neil Quentin Gordon Parish |
Tiverton and Honiton |
Giacomo Lopresti |
Filton and Bradley Stoke |
Jonathan Neil Reynolds |
Stalybridge and Hyde |
Pat Glass |
North West Durham |
Simon Anthony Hart |
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire |
Michael Fraser Weir |
Angus |
Paul Kenneth Burstow |
Sutton and Cheam |
John David Pugh |
Southport |
Angela Christine Smith |
Penistone and Stocksbridge |
Martin John Vickers |
Cleethorpes |
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh |
Gainsborough |
Geraint Richard Davies |
Swansea West |
Graham Stuart Brady |
Altrincham and Sale West |
Stephen Hepburn |
Jarrow |
Norman Peter Lamb |
North Norfolk |
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick |
Bosworth |
John Robert Cryer |
Leyton and Wanstead |
Phillip James Woolas |
Oldham East and Saddleworth |
Richard Michael Bacon |
South Norfolk |
Priti Patel |
Witham |
Charles Brett Anthony Elphicke |
Dover |
Robert Wilson |
Reading East |
Alec Shelbrooke |
Elmet and Rothwell |
Nigel Adams |
Selby and Ainsty |
Charlotte Ann Leslie |
Bristol North West |
Keith Robert Simpson |
Broadland |
Samuel Phillip Gyimah |
East Surrey |
Melvyn John Stride |
Central Devon |
Wayne David |
Caerphilly |
John Leech |
Manchester, Withington |
Lyn Carol Brown |
West Ham |
Kerry Gillian McCarthy |
Bristol East |
John Archibald Thurso |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
Iain David Wright |
Hartlepool |
Dennis Edward Skinner |
Bolsover |
Barbara Mary Keeley |
Worsley and Eccles South |
James Sheridan |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North |
Mary MacLeod |
Brentford and Isleworth |
Stephen James Mosley |
City of Chester |
Mark Jonathan Mortlock Simmonds |
Boston and Skegness |
Claire Louise Perry |
Devizes |
Damian Patrick George Hinds |
East Hampshire |
Guto ap Owain Bebb |
Aberconwy |
Right honourable Andrew Murray Burnham |
Leigh |
Gregg McClymont |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East |
Daniel John Rogerson |
North Cornwall |
Margaret Patricia Munn |
Sheffield, Heeley |
Gordon Raymond Banks |
Ochil and South Perthshire |
Duncan John Hames |
Chippenham |
Ian Graham Davidson |
Glasgow South West |
Andrew Richard Rosindell |
Romford |
Mark Andrew Pritchard |
The Wrekin |
The Speaker suspended the House until 6.40 pm.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Anna Mary Soubry |
for Broxtowe |
Mark Steven Spencer |
Sherwood |
Right honourable Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell |
Dulwich and West Norwood |
Right honourable Frank Field |
Birkenhead |
Geoffrey Robinson |
Coventry North West |
Lindsay Allan Roy |
Glenrothes |
Ian Lavery |
Wansbeck |
Grahame Mark Morris |
Easington |
Ian Mearns |
Gateshead |
Richard Harrington |
Watford |
Sajid Javid |
Bromsgrove |
Robert Henry Halfon |
Harlow |
John Philip Glen |
Salisbury |
Andrew James Griffiths |
Burton |
Alexander Jesse Norman |
Hereford and South Herefordshire |
David Morris |
Morecambe and Lunesdale |
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax |
South Dorset |
Robert John Blackman |
Harrow East |
Mark Richard Tami |
Alyn and Deeside |
Fiona Claire Bruce |
Congleton |
Angie Bray |
Ealing Central and Acton |
Esther Louise McVey |
Wirral West |
Karl Ian McCartney |
Lincoln |
Kristan Frederick Hopkins |
Keighley |
Sarah James Wollaston |
Totnes |
John Mark Lancaster |
Milton Keynes North |
Andrew William Murrison |
South West Wiltshire |
Daniel Leonard James Poulter |
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich |
Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch |
Chatham and Aylesford |
Diane Julie Abbott |
Hackney North and Stoke Newington |
Gisela Gschaider Stuart |
Birmingham, Edgbaston |
Kelvin Peter Hopkins |
Luton North |
Katy Clark |
North Ayrshire and Arran |
Ann McKechin |
Glasgow North |
Mary Theresa Glindon |
North Tyneside |
Julie Elliott |
Sunderland Central |
Right honourable Edward Samuel Miliband |
Doncaster North |
Heather Kay Wheeler |
South Derbyshire |
Gregory David Clark |
Tunbridge Wells |
Peter Aldous |
Waveney |
James George Morris |
Halesowen and Rowley Regis |
Mark Robert Timothy Garnier |
Wyre Forest |
Geoffrey Nicholas de Bois |
Enfield North |
Pauline Elizabeth Latham |
Mid Derbyshire |
Chuka Harrison Umunna |
Streatham |
Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger |
Bridgwater and West Somerset |
Andrew Percy |
Brigg and Goole |
Simon Justin Reevell |
Dewsbury |
Lynne Choona Featherstone |
Hornsey and Wood Green |
Dominic Rennie Raab |
Esher and Walton |
Damian Noel Collins |
Folkestone and Hythe |
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes |
Romsey and Southampton North |
Caroline Julia Dinenage |
Gosport |
Lorraine Fullbrook |
South Ribble |
Conor Burns |
Bournemouth West |
Mark Andrew Menzies |
Fylde |
Roger Duncan Godsiff |
Birmingham, Hall Green |
Annette Lesley Brooke |
Mid Dorset and North Poole |
Eleanor Fulton Laing |
Epping Forest |
John Michael Howell |
Henley |
Philip Wilson |
Sedgefield |
Charles Geoffrey Cox |
Torridge and West Devon |
Chloe Rebecca Smith |
Norwich North |
Michael John Gapes |
Ilford South |
Andrew John Gwynne |
Denton and Reddish |
Natascha Engel |
North East Derbyshire |
Matthew Toby Perkins |
Chesterfield |
William Roffen Esterson |
Sefton Central |
Julie Ann Hilling |
Bolton West |
Yasmin Qureshi |
Bolton South East |
Daniel Robert Kawczynski |
Shrewsbury and Atcham |
Stewart James Jackson |
Peterborough |
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley |
North Antrim |
Graham Thomas Evans |
Weaver Vale |
Kate Green |
Stretford and Urmston |
Rachel Jane Reeves |
Leeds West |
Tobias Martin Ellwood |
Bournemouth East |
John Douglas Wilson Carswell |
Clacton |
Jonathan George Caladine Lord |
Woking |
Richard Quentin Fuller |
Bedford |
Julian Richard Smith |
Skipton and Ripon |
Michael Thomas Hancock |
Portsmouth South |
Lilian Rachel Greenwood |
Nottingham South |
Owen Smith |
Pontypridd |
Christopher James Evans |
Islwyn |
Catherine Mary Jamieson |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |
James Stephen Wharton |
Stockton South |
John Henry Hayes |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Julian Charles Sturdy |
York Outer |
Craig Whittaker |
Calder Valley |
Thérèse Anne Coffey |
Suffolk Coastal |
Christopher James Skidmore |
Kingswood |
Adrian Edward Bailey |
West Bromwich West |
David Jonathan Edwards |
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr |
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy |
Stafford |
Jessica Katherine Lee |
Erewash |
David Thomas Charles Davies |
Monmouth |
James Hood |
Lanark and Hamilton East |
Andrew Guy Tyrie |
Chichester |
Christopher Pincher |
Tamworth |
Nicola Ann Morgan |
Loughborough |
Right honourable Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford |
Greenwich and Woolwich |
Stephen James McCabe |
Birmingham, Selly Oak |
John Zak Woodcock |
Barrow and Furness |
Clive Stanley Efford |
Eltham |
Right honourable James Francis Murphy |
East Renfrewshire |
John Mann |
Bassetlaw |
George Freeman |
Mid Norfolk |
Gavin Shuker |
Luton South |
Bridget Maeve Phillipson |
Houghton and Sunderland South |
Christopher Robert Chope |
Christchurch |
George Edward Mudie |
Leeds East |
Robert Andrew Stunell |
Hazel Grove |
Graham William Allen |
Nottingham North |
Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown |
The Cotswolds |
Nicholas Desmond John Smith |
Blaenau Gwent |
David Henry Rutley |
Macclesfield |
Michael Richard Weatherley |
Hove |
Simon Gerard Kirby |
Brighton, Kemptown |
7 Adjournment
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.-(Bill Wiggin.)
Adjourned at 7.51 pm until tomorrow.