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Recording Of Abstentions In Votes In The House

EDM number 1145 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 20/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Members of Parliament and Parliamentary procedure.

That this House notes press reports that the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend is planning to bring forward rules for Labour hon. Members on how many times they must vote in a Parliamentary Session; and therefore urges that in future procedures are put in place to ensure that abstentions are able to be recorded in any vote in the House.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John McDonnell20/03/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourProposed
Ann Cryer23/03/2009KeighleyLabourSeconded
David Taylor23/03/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn23/03/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock23/03/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George23/03/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins23/03/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones23/03/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/03/2009GowerLabourSigned
David Drew24/03/2009StroudLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell24/03/2009East LondonderryDUPSigned
Andrew MacKinlay24/03/2009ThurrockLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle24/03/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson24/03/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis25/03/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Robert Wareing25/03/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Dai Davies25/03/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
David Simpson26/03/2009Upper BannDUPSigned
Nick Harvey26/03/2009North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark26/03/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard30/03/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Linda Riordan29/04/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Andy Reed30/04/2009LoughboroughLabourSigned

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