child care industry also support our proposals. I admit that not everyone is supportive. I can only say that we are giving people the opportunity to offer more places, it is not compulsory, and it is certainly not something that we will allow providers who do not invest in high quality to do. We will also allow good nurseries who hire high-quality staff to have more flexibility and to expand, agai...

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Official page

276

Ayes

196

Noes

Majority

PASS

Result

Party breakdown

Party	Aye	No	Total
CON Conservative	189	1	190
LAB Labour	3	155	158
UNK Unknown	28	16	44
LD Liberal Democrat	32	1	33
IND Independent	14	13	27
THE The Independent Group for Change	1	3	4
PC Plaid Cymru	0	2	2
GRN Green Party	0	1	1
DUP Democratic Unionist Party	0	1	1
UK UK Independence Party	1	0	1

How MPs voted

461 recorded

MP	Party	Constituency	Vote
Adam Afriyie	CON		AYE
Albert Owen	LAB		NO
Alex Cunningham	LAB		NO
Alison McGovern	LAB	Birkenhead	NO
Alison Seabeck	LAB		NO
Alok Sharma			AYE
Alun Cairns	CON		AYE
Amber Rudd	IND		AYE
Anas Sarwar	LAB		NO
Andrea Leadsom	CON		AYE
Andrew Bingham	CON		AYE
Andrew Bridgen	IND		AYE
Andrew Griffiths	CON		AYE
Andrew Gwynne	IND		NO
Andrew Jones	CON		AYE
Andrew Miller	LAB		NO
Andrew Percy	CON		AYE
Andrew Selous	CON		AYE
Andrew Stephenson	CON		AYE
Andrew Tyrie			AYE
Andy McDonald	LAB	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	NO
Andy Sawford	LAB		NO
Andy Slaughter	LAB	Hammersmith and Chiswick	NO
Angela Smith	LD		NO
Ann Clwyd	LAB		NO
Ann Coffey	THE		NO
Ann McKechin	LAB		NO
Anna Soubry	THE		AYE
Anne Marie Morris	CON		AYE
Anne Milton	IND		AYE
Annette Brooke	LD		AYE
Austin Mitchell	LAB		NO
Barbara Keeley			NO
Barry Gardiner	LAB	Brent West	NO
Ben Gummer	CON		AYE
Bill Esterson	LAB	Sefton Central	NO
Bob Stewart	CON		AYE
Bridget Phillipson	LAB	Houghton and Sunderland South	NO
Caroline Lucas	GRN		NO
Caroline Nokes	CON	Romsey and Southampton North	AYE
Catherine McKinnell	LAB	Newcastle upon Tyne North	NO
Cathy Jamieson	LAB		NO
Charles Hendry	CON		AYE
Charlie Elphicke	IND		AYE
Charlotte Leslie	CON		AYE
Chloe Smith	CON		AYE
Chris Bryant	LAB	Rhondda and Ogmore	NO
Chris Evans	LAB	Caerphilly	NO
Chris Grayling			AYE
Chris Heaton-Harris	CON		AYE
Chris Kelly	CON		AYE
Chris Skidmore	CON		AYE
Chris White	CON		AYE
Chris Williamson	IND		NO
Christopher Pincher	IND		AYE
Claire Perry	CON		AYE
Clive Efford	LAB	Eltham and Chislehurst	NO
Craig Whittaker	CON		AYE
Dame Angela Watkinson	CON		AYE
Dame Anne Begg	LAB		NO
Dame Anne McGuire	LAB		NO
Dame Caroline Dinenage	CON	Gosport	AYE
Dame Cheryl Gillan	CON		AYE
Dame Chi Onwurah	LAB	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West	NO
Dame Diana Johnson	LAB	Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham	NO
Dame Harriett Baldwin	CON	West Worcestershire	AYE
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price	CON		AYE
Dame Joan Ruddock	LAB		NO
Dame Karen Bradley	CON	Staffordshire Moorlands	AYE
Dame Louise Ellman	IND		NO
Dame Tracey Crouch	CON		AYE
Damian Collins	CON		AYE
Damian Hinds	CON	East Hampshire	AYE
Dan Jarvis	LAB	Barnsley North	NO
Dan Rogerson	LD		AYE
Daniel Kawczynski	CON		AYE
David Davis	CON	Goole and Pocklington	AYE
David Hanson			NO
David Mowat	CON		AYE
David Mundell	CON	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	AYE
David Rutley	CON		AYE
David T C Davies	CON		AYE
David Tredinnick	CON		AYE
Derek Twigg	LAB	Widnes and Halewood	NO
Dominic Raab	CON		AYE
Dr Dan Poulter	LAB		AYE
Dr Hywel Francis	LAB		NO
Dr Jeremy Bray	LAB		AYE
Dr Julian Huppert	LD		AYE
Dr Matthew Offord	CON		AYE
Dr Phillip Lee	LD		AYE
Dr Sarah Wollaston	LD		AYE
Ed Balls	LAB		NO
Ed Miliband	LAB	Doncaster North	NO
Edward Timpson	CON		AYE
Edward Vaizey			AYE
Eleanor Laing			AYE
Elizabeth Truss	CON		AYE
Emily Thornberry	LAB	Islington South and Finsbury	NO
Emma Reynolds	LAB	Wycombe	NO
Eric Joyce	IND		NO
Eric Ollerenshaw	CON		AYE
Eric Pickles			AYE
Esther McVey	CON	Tatton	AYE
Fabian Hamilton	LAB	Leeds North East	NO
Fiona Bruce	CON		AYE
Fiona Mactaggart	LAB		NO
Fiona O'Donnell	LAB		NO
Frank Dobson	LAB		NO
Frank Field			NO
Gareth Johnson	CON		AYE
Gareth Thomas	LAB		NO
Gavin Barwell			AYE
Gemma Doyle	LAB		NO
George Eustice	CON		AYE
George Freeman	CON	Mid Norfolk	AYE
Geraint Davies	IND		NO
Gisela Stuart			NO
Gloria De Piero	LAB		NO
Glyn Davies	CON		AYE
Gordon Banks	LAB		NO
Gordon Birtwistle	LD		AYE
Gordon Henderson	CON		AYE
Gordon Marsden	LAB		NO
Graeme Morrice	LAB		NO
Graham Brady			AYE
Graham Evans			AYE
Graham P Jones	LAB		NO
Graham Stuart	CON	Beverley and Holderness	AYE
Grahame Morris	LAB	Easington	NO
Greg Clark	CON		AYE
Greg Hands	CON		AYE
Greg Mulholland	LD		AYE
Gregg McClymont	LAB		NO
Guy Opperman	CON		AYE
Hazel Blears	LAB		NO
Heidi Alexander	LAB	Swindon South	NO
Helen Goodman	LAB		NO
Helen Grant	CON	Maidstone and Malling	AYE
Helen Jones	LAB		NO
Henry Bellingham			AYE
Henry Smith	CON		AYE
Hilary Benn	LAB	Leeds South	NO
Hugo Swire			AYE
Hywel Williams	PC		NO
Iain McKenzie	LAB		NO
Iain Stewart	CON		AYE
Ian Austin			NO
Ian Lavery	LAB	Blyth and Ashington	NO
Ian Mearns	LAB		NO
Ian Murray	LAB	Edinburgh South	NO
Ian Swales	LD		AYE
Jack Dromey	LAB		NO
Jack Lopresti	CON		AYE
James Brokenshire	CON		AYE
James Gray	CON		AYE
James Morris	CON		AYE
James Wharton			AYE
Jane Ellison	CON		AYE
Jason McCartney	CON		AYE
Jeremy Corbyn	IND	Islington North	NO
Jesse Norman	CON	Hereford and South Herefordshire	AYE
Jessica Lee	CON		AYE
Jim Dowd	LAB		NO
Jim Fitzpatrick	LAB		NO
Jim Shannon	DUP	Strangford	NO
Jim Sheridan	LAB		NO
Jo Swinson	LD		AYE
Joan Walley	LAB		NO
John Cryer			NO
John Healey	LAB	Rawmarsh and Conisbrough	NO
John Hemming	LD		AYE
John Howell	CON		AYE
John McDonnell	LAB	Hayes and Harlington	NO
John Penrose	CON		AYE
John Pugh	LD		AYE
John Robertson	LAB		NO
John Spellar			NO
John Watts	CON		NO
John Woodcock			NO
Jon Trickett	LAB	Normanton and Hemsworth	NO
Jonathan Ashworth	LAB		NO
Jonathan Edwards	IND		NO
Jonathan Evans	CON		AYE
Jonathan Reynolds	LAB	Stalybridge and Hyde	NO
Joseph Johnson			AYE
Julian Sturdy	CON		AYE
Julie Hilling	LAB		NO
Justine Greening	IND		AYE
Karen Lumley	CON		AYE
Karl McCartney	CON		AYE
Karl Turner	LAB	Kingston upon Hull East	NO
Kate Green	LAB		NO
Kelvin Hopkins	IND		NO
Kenneth Clarke			AYE
Kerry McCarthy	LAB	Bristol East	NO
Kevin Brennan			NO
Kris Hopkins	CON		AYE
Kwasi Kwarteng	CON		AYE
Laura Sandys	CON		AYE
Liam Byrne	LAB	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North	NO
Lilian Greenwood	LAB	Nottingham South	NO
Lindsay Roy	LAB		NO
Lisa Nandy	LAB	Wigan	NO
Liz Kendall	LAB	Leicester West	NO
Luciana Berger			NO
Lucy Powell	LAB	Manchester Central	NO
Margaret Beckett			NO
Margaret Hodge			NO
Maria Eagle	LAB	Liverpool Garston	NO
Mark Field	CON		AYE
Mark Garnier	CON	Wyre Forest	AYE
Mark Harper			AYE
Mark Hunter	LD		AYE
Mark Lancaster			AYE
Mark Lazarowicz	LAB		NO
Mark Menzies	IND		AYE
Mark Pawsey	CON		AYE
Mark Reckless	UK		AYE
Martin Caton	LAB		NO
Martin Horwood	LD		AYE
Mary Creagh	LAB	Coventry East	NO
Mary Glindon	LAB	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend	NO
Mary Macleod	CON		AYE
Matt Hancock	CON		AYE
Meg Munn	LAB		NO
Michael Connarty	LAB		NO
Michael Gove			AYE
Michael Moore	LD		AYE
Mike Gapes	THE		NO
Mike Weatherley	CON		AYE
Mr Adrian Bailey	LAB		NO
Mr Adrian Sanders	LD		AYE
Mr Aidan Burley	CON		AYE
Mr Alan Reid	LD		AYE
Mr Alistair Carmichael	LD	Orkney and Shetland	AYE
Mr Andrew Love	LAB		NO
Mr Andrew Turner	CON		AYE
Mr Barry Sheerman	LAB		NO
Mr Ben Bradshaw	LAB		NO
Mr Bob Ainsworth	LAB		NO
Mr Brian Binley	CON		AYE
Mr Brooks Newmark	CON		AYE
Mr Chris Leslie	THE		NO
Mr Clive Betts	LAB	Sheffield South East	NO
Mr Dai Havard	LAB		NO
Mr David Anderson	LAB		NO
Mr David Burrowes	CON		AYE
Mr David Gauke	IND		AYE
Mr David Hamilton	LAB		NO
Mr David Heath	LD		AYE
Mr David Jones	CON		AYE
Mr David Lammy	LAB	Tottenham	NO
Mr David Nuttall	CON		AYE
Mr David Ruffley	CON		AYE
Mr David Ward	LD		AYE
Mr David Winnick	LAB		NO
Mr Dennis Skinner	LAB		NO
Mr Douglas Alexander	LAB	Lothian East	NO
Mr Douglas Carswell	IND		AYE
Mr Elfyn Llwyd	PC		NO
Mr Frank Doran	LAB		NO
Mr Gavin Shuker	IND		NO
Mr Geoffrey Robinson	LAB		NO
Mr George Osborne	CON		AYE
Mr Gordon Brown	LAB		NO
Mr Iain Wright	LAB		NO
Mr Ian Davidson	LAB		NO
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger	CON		AYE
Mr Jack Straw	IND		NO
Mr Jeremy Browne	LD		AYE
Mr Jim Cunningham	LAB		NO
Mr Jim Hood	LAB		NO
Mr Jim Murphy	LAB		NO
Mr Joe Benton	LAB		NO
Mr John Baron	CON		AYE
Mr John Leech	LD		AYE
Mr Jonathan Djanogly	CON		AYE
Mr Jonathan Lord	CON		AYE
Mr Laurence Robertson	CON		AYE
Mr Lee Scott	CON		AYE
Mr Marcus Jones	CON		AYE
Mr Mark Francois	CON	Rayleigh and Wickford	AYE
Mr Mark Hoban	CON		AYE
Mr Mark Prisk	CON		AYE
Mr Michael McCann	LAB		NO
Mr Nicholas Brown	IND		NO
Mr Nick Hurd	CON		AYE
Mr Nick Raynsford	LAB		NO
Mr Peter Bone	IND		AYE
Mr Philip Hollobone	CON		AYE
Mr Richard Bacon	CON		AYE
Mr Rob Wilson	CON		AYE
Mr Robert Walter	CON		AYE
Mr Robin Walker	CON		AYE
Mr Russell Brown	LAB		NO
Mr Sam Gyimah	LD		AYE
Mr Shaun Woodward	LAB		NO
Mr Steve Baker	CON		AYE
Mr Tobias Ellwood	CON		AYE
Mr Toby Perkins	LAB	Chesterfield	NO
Mr Tom Clarke	LAB		NO
Mr Tom Harris	LAB		NO
Mr Virendra Sharma	LAB		NO
Mr William Bain	LAB		NO
Mrs Anne Main	CON		AYE
Mrs Heather Wheeler	CON		AYE
Mrs Madeleine Moon	LAB		NO
Mrs Sharon Hodgson	LAB	Washington and Gateshead South	NO
Mrs Sheryll Murray	CON		AYE
Mrs Siân C. James	LAB		NO
Ms Diane Abbott	IND	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	NO
Ms Karen Buck	LAB		NO
Ms Nadine Dorries	CON		AYE
Ms Stella Creasy	LAB	Walthamstow	NO
Nadhim Zahawi	CON		AYE
Neil Parish	CON		AYE
Nicholas Soames			AYE
Nick Boles	IND		AYE
Nick de Bois	CON		AYE
Nick Gibb	CON		AYE
Nick Herbert			AYE
Nick Smith	LAB	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	NO
Nicky Morgan			AYE
Nicola Blackwood			AYE
Nigel Adams	CON		AYE
Nigel Dodds			NO
Oliver Colvile	CON		AYE
Pamela Nash	LAB	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	NO
Pat Glass	LAB		NO
Pat McFadden	LAB	Wolverhampton South East	NO
Patrick McLoughlin			AYE
Paul Blomfield	LAB		NO
Paul Burstow	LD		AYE
Paul Farrelly	LAB		NO
Paul Flynn	LAB		NO
Paul Goggins	LAB		NO
Paul Maynard	CON		AYE
Paul Uppal	CON		AYE
Paula Barker	LAB	Liverpool Wavertree	AYE
Penny Mordaunt	CON		AYE
Peter Aldous	CON		AYE
Peter Lilley			AYE
Phil Wilson			NO
Philip Dunne	CON		AYE
Philip Hammond			AYE
Priti Patel	CON	Witham	AYE
Rachel Reeves	LAB	Leeds West and Pudsey	NO
Rebecca Harris	CON	Castle Point	AYE
Rehman Chishti	CON		AYE
Richard Benyon			AYE
Richard Burden	LAB		NO
Richard Drax	CON		AYE
Richard Graham	CON		AYE
Richard Harrington			AYE
Robert Flello	LAB		NO
Robert Halfon	CON		AYE
Rory Stewart	IND		AYE
Rosie Cooper	LAB		NO
Rosie Winterton			NO
Rushanara Ali	LAB	Bethnal Green and Stepney	NO
Sandra Osborne	LAB		NO
Sarah Teather	LD		AYE
Shabana Mahmood	LAB	Birmingham Ladywood	NO
Shailesh Vara	CON		AYE
Sheila Gilmore	LAB		NO
Simon Hart			AYE
Simon Hughes	LD		AYE
Simon Kirby	CON		AYE
Sir Alan Campbell	LAB	Tynemouth	NO
Sir Alan Duncan	CON		AYE
Sir Alan Meale	LAB		NO
Sir Alec Shelbrooke	CON	Wetherby and Easingwold	AYE
Sir Andrew Mitchell	CON	Sutton Coldfield	AYE
Sir Bernard Jenkin	CON	Harwich and North Essex	AYE
Sir Bill Wiggin	CON		AYE
Sir Bob Russell	LD		AYE
Sir Brandon Lewis	CON		AYE
Sir Charles Walker	CON		AYE
Sir Christopher Chope	CON	Christchurch	AYE
Sir David Amess	CON		AYE
Sir David Crausby	LAB		NO
Sir David Evennett	CON		AYE
Sir David Lidington	CON		AYE
Sir Desmond Swayne	CON	New Forest West	AYE
Sir Edward Leigh	CON	Gainsborough	AYE
Sir Gary Streeter	CON		AYE
Sir Gavin Williamson	CON	Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge	AYE
Sir Geoffrey Cox	CON	Torridge and Tavistock	AYE
Sir George Howarth	LAB		NO
Sir George Younger	CON		AYE
Sir Gerald Howarth	CON		AYE
Sir Greg Knight	CON		AYE
Sir Hugh Bayley	LAB		NO
Sir Hugh Robertson	CON		AYE
Sir Iain Duncan Smith	CON	Chingford and Woodford Green	AYE
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg	CON		AYE
Sir Jake Berry	CON		AYE
Sir James Paice	CON		AYE
Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson	IND		NO
Sir Jeremy Hunt	CON	Godalming and Ash	AYE
Sir Jeremy Wright	CON	Kenilworth and Southam	AYE
Sir John Hayes	CON	South Holland and The Deepings	AYE
Sir John Redwood	CON		AYE
Sir John Stanley	CON		AYE
Sir Julian Brazier	CON		AYE
Sir Julian Lewis	CON	New Forest East	AYE
Sir Julian Smith	CON	Skipton and Ripon	AYE
Sir Kevin Barron	LAB		NO
Sir Malcolm Rifkind	IND		AYE
Sir Mark Hendrick	LAB	Preston	NO
Sir Mark Spencer	CON		AYE
Sir Mark Tami	LAB	Alyn and Deeside	NO
Sir Mel Stride	CON	Central Devon	AYE
Sir Michael Ellis	CON		AYE
Sir Nicholas Dakin	LAB	Scunthorpe	NO
Sir Nick Harvey	LD		AYE
Sir Oliver Heald	CON		AYE
Sir Oliver Letwin	IND		AYE
Sir Paul Beresford	CON		AYE
Sir Peter Luff	CON		AYE
Sir Philip Davies	CON		AYE
Sir Richard Ottaway	CON		AYE
Sir Richard Shepherd	CON		AYE
Sir Robert Buckland	CON		AYE
Sir Robert Goodwill	CON		AYE
Sir Robert Neill	CON		AYE
Sir Robert Syms	CON		AYE
Sir Roger Gale	CON	Herne Bay and Sandwich	AYE
Sir Sajid Javid	CON		AYE
Sir Simon Burns	CON		AYE
Sir Stephen Timms	LAB	East Ham	NO
Sir Tony Baldry	CON		AYE
Sir William Cash	CON		AYE
Stephen Crabb	CON		AYE
Stephen Hammond	CON		AYE
Stephen Lloyd	LD		AYE
Stephen McPartland	CON		AYE
Stephen Metcalfe	CON		AYE
Stephen Phillips	CON		AYE
Stephen Pound	LAB		NO
Stephen Williams	LD		AYE
Steve Barclay	CON	North East Cambridgeshire	AYE
Steve Reed	LAB	Streatham and Croydon North	NO
Steve Rotheram	LAB		NO
Steve Webb	LD		AYE
Stuart Andrew	CON	Daventry	AYE
Susan Elan Jones	LAB		NO
Teresa Pearce	LAB		NO
Tessa Munt	LD	Wells and Mendip Hills	AYE
Thérèse Coffey			AYE
Tim Loughton	CON		AYE
Tom Blenkinsop	LAB		NO
Tom Brake	LD		AYE
Tom Randall	CON		AYE
Tom Watson			NO
Tristram Hunt	LAB		NO
Valerie Vaz	LAB	Walsall and Bloxwich	NO
Wayne David	LAB		NO
Yasmin Qureshi	LAB	Bolton South and Walkden	NO
Yvonne Fovargue	LAB		NO