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.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John McDonnell	20/03/2009	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Proposed
Andrew George	23/03/2009	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Mike Hancock	23/03/2009	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Jeremy Corbyn	23/03/2009	Islington North	Labour	Seconded
David Taylor	23/03/2009	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Seconded
Ann Cryer	23/03/2009	Keighley	Labour	Seconded
Kelvin Hopkins	23/03/2009	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	23/03/2009	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
David Drew	24/03/2009	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	24/03/2009	Gower	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	24/03/2009	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	24/03/2009	Thurrock	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	24/03/2009	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	24/03/2009	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	25/03/2009	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	25/03/2009	Liverpool, West Derby	Independent	Signed
Dai Davies	25/03/2009	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
Katy Clark	26/03/2009	Ayrshire North & Arran	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	26/03/2009	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Simpson	26/03/2009	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
Neil Gerrard	30/03/2009	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	23/04/2009	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Linda Riordan	29/04/2009	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Andy Reed	30/04/2009	Loughborough	Labour	Signed

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