Energy Bill — Clause 10 — Direction to offer contract

On 4th June 2013 the House of Commons debated division number 19 the motion below.

MPs who support action on climate change should have voted Aye.

Amendment proposed: 1, page 8, line 8, at end insert—

‘( ) Section 41(4)(a) of the Energy Act 2008 (“specified maximum capacity”) is amended as follows: “Specified maximum capacity” means the capacity specified by the Secretary of State by order, which must not be less than 10 megawatts.’.—(Luciana Berger.)

Question put, That the amendment be made.

The House divided:

Ayes 245, Noes 312.

MPs Who Supported Climate Action

These 247 MPs voted Aye, in support of climate action:

• Diane Abbott (Lab)
• Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
• Bob Ainsworth
• Douglas Alexander (Lab)
• Heidi Alexander (Lab)
• Rushanara Ali (Lab)
• Graham Allen
• Jon Ashworth
• Ian Austin
• Adrian Bailey
• William Bain
• Edward Balls
• Gordon Banks
• Kevin Barron
• Margaret Beckett
• Anne Begg
• Hilary Benn (Lab)
• Joe Benton
• Luciana Berger
• Clive Betts (Lab)
• Roberta Blackman-Woods
• Hazel Blears
• Tom Blenkinsop
• Paul Blomfield
• Ben Bradshaw
• Kevin Brennan
• Lyn Brown
• Nick Brown
• Russell Brown
• Chris Bryant (Lab)
• Richard Burden
• Andy Burnham (Lab)
• Liam Byrne (Lab)
• Alan Campbell (Lab)
• Gregory Campbell (DUP)
• Ronnie Campbell
• Martin Caton
• Sarah Champion (Lab)
• Jenny Chapman
• Katy Clark
• Tom Clarke
• Ann Clwyd
• Vernon Coaker
• Ann Coffey
• Michael Connarty
• Rosie Cooper
• Yvette Cooper (Lab)
• Jeremy Corbyn
• David Crausby
• Mary Creagh (Lab)
• Stella Creasy (Lab)
• Jon Cruddas
• John Cryer
• Alex Cunningham
• Jim Cunningham
• Tony Cunningham
• Margaret Curran
• Nicholas Dakin (Lab)
• Simon Danczuk
• Wayne David
• Ian Davidson
• Geraint Davies
• Gloria De Piero
• John Denham
• Jim Dobbin
• Frank Dobson
• Thomas Docherty
• Nigel Dodds
• Jeffrey M. Donaldson
• Brian H Donohoe
• Frank Doran
• Stephen Doughty (Lab)
• Jim Dowd
• Jack Dromey
• Michael Dugher
• Mark Durkan
• Angela Eagle (Lab)
• Maria Eagle (Lab)
• Jonathan Edwards
• Clive Efford (Lab)
• Julie Elliott
• Louise Ellman
• Natascha Engel
• Bill Esterson (Lab)
• Chris Evans (Lab)
• Paul Farrelly
• Frank Field
• Jim Fitzpatrick
• Rob Flello
• Caroline Flint
• Paul Flynn
• Hywel Francis
• Barry Gardiner (Lab)
• Sheila Gilmore
• Pat Glass
• Mary Glindon (Lab)
• Roger Godsiff
• Paul Goggins
• Helen Goodman
• Tom Greatrex
• Kate Green
• Lilian Greenwood (Lab)
• Nia Griffith (Lab)
• Andrew Gwynne
• Peter Hain
• David Hamilton
• Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
• David Hanson
• Harriet Harman
• Tom Harris
• Dai Havard
• John Healey (Lab)
• Stephen Hepburn
• Sylvia Hermon
• Meg Hillier (Lab)
• Julie Hilling
• Margaret Hodge
• Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
• Kate Hoey
• Kelvin Hopkins
• Stewart Hosie
• George Howarth
• Tristram Hunt
• Huw Irranca-Davies
• Glenda Jackson
• Cathy Jamieson
• Dan Jarvis (Lab)
• Alan Johnson
• Diana R. Johnson (Lab)
• Graham Jones
• Helen Jones
• Kevan Jones
• Susan Elan Jones
• Gerald Kaufman
• Barbara Keeley
• Liz Kendall (Lab)
• Sadiq Khan
• David Lammy (Lab)
• Ian Lavery (Lab)
• Mark Lazarowicz
• Chris Leslie
• Ivan Lewis
• Elfyn Llwyd
• Andrew Love
• Caroline Lucas
• Ian Lucas
• Angus MacNeil
• Fiona Mactaggart
• Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
• Seema Malhotra (Lab)
• Gordon Marsden
• Steve McCabe
• Michael McCann
• Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
• Gregg McClymont
• William McCrea
• Siobhain McDonagh (Lab)
• Andy McDonald (Lab)
• Pat McFadden (Lab)
• Alison McGovern (Lab)
• Jim McGovern
• Anne McGuire
• Ann McKechin
• Iain McKenzie
• Catherine McKinnell (Lab)
• Michael Meacher
• Alan Meale
• Ian Mearns
• Andrew Miller
• Jessica Morden (Lab)
• Graeme Morrice
• Grahame Morris (Lab)
• George Mudie
• Meg Munn
• Jim Murphy
• Paul Murphy
• Ian Murray (Lab)
• Lisa Nandy (Lab)
• Pamela Nash (Lab)
• Fiona O'Donnell
• Chi Onwurah (Lab)
• Sandra Osborne
• Albert Owen
• Ian Paisley Jnr
• Teresa Pearce
• Toby Perkins (Lab)
• Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
• Steve Pound
• Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
• Nick Raynsford
• Jamie Reed
• Steve Reed (Lab)
• Emma Reynolds (Lab)
• Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
• Linda Riordan
• Angus Robertson
• John Robertson
• Geoffrey Robinson
• Steve Rotheram
• Frank Roy
• Lindsay Roy
• Chris Ruane
• Joan Ruddock
• Anas Sarwar
• Andy Sawford
• Alison Seabeck
• Jim Shannon (DUP)
• Virendra Sharma
• Barry Sheerman
• Jim Sheridan
• Gavin Shuker
• David Simpson
• Dennis Skinner
• Andrew Slaughter (Lab)
• Andrew Smith
• Nick Smith (Lab)
• Owen Smith
• John Spellar
• Gisela Stuart
• Gerry Sutcliffe
• Mark Tami (Lab)
• Gareth Thomas (Lab)
• Emily Thornberry (Lab)
• Stephen Timms (Lab)
• Jon Trickett (Lab)
• Karl Turner
• Derek Twigg (Lab)
• Stephen Twigg
• Chuka Umunna
• Valerie Vaz (Lab)
• Joan Walley
• Tom Watson
• Dave Watts
• Michael Weir
• Eilidh Whiteford
• Alan Whitehead
• Hywel Williams
• Chris Williamson
• Phil Wilson
• David Winnick
• Rosie Winterton
• Pete Wishart (SNP)
• Mike Wood
• John Woodcock
• Shaun Woodward
• David Wright
• Iain Wright

MPs Who Voted Against Climate Action

These 314 MPs voted No, against climate action:

• Nigel Adams
• Peter Aldous
• Danny Alexander
• Stuart Andrew (Con)
• James Arbuthnot
• Richard Bacon
• Norman Baker
• Steven Baker
• Tony Baldry
• Harriett Baldwin (Con)
• Steve Barclay (Con)
• Gregory Barker
• John Baron
• Gavin Barwell
• Guto Bebb
• Alan Beith
• Henry Bellingham
• Richard Benyon
• Jake Berry
• Andrew Bingham
• Brian Binley
• Gordon Birtwistle
• Nicola Blackwood
• Crispin Blunt
• Nicholas Boles
• Peter Bone
• Peter Bottomley
• Karen Bradley (Con)
• Graham Brady
• Tom Brake
• Angie Bray
• Julian Brazier
• Andrew Bridgen
• Steve Brine
• James Brokenshire
• Annette Brooke
• Jeremy Browne
• Fiona Bruce
• Malcolm Bruce
• Robert Buckland
• Aidan Burley
• Conor Burns
• David Burrowes
• Paul Burstow
• Lorely Burt
• Dan Byles
• Vincent Cable
• Alun Cairns
• Alistair Carmichael (LD)
• Neil Carmichael
• Douglas Carswell
• Bill Cash
• Rehman Chishti
• Christopher Chope (Con)
• Greg Clark
• Kenneth Clarke
• Nick Clegg
• Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
• Therese Coffey
• Damian Collins
• Oliver Colvile
• Geoffrey Cox (Con)
• Stephen Crabb
• Michael Crockart
• Tracey Crouch
• Edward Davey (LD)
• David Davies
• Glyn Davies
• Philip Davies
• David Davis (Con)
• Nick de Bois
• Caroline Dinenage (Con)
• Jonathan Djanogly
• Stephen Dorrell
• Nadine Dorries
• Jackie Doyle-Price
• James Duddridge
• Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
• Michael Ellis
• Jane Ellison
• Tobias Ellwood
• Charlie Elphicke
• Graham Evans
• Jonathan Evans
• David Evennett
• Michael Fabricant
• Michael Fallon
• Tim Farron (LD)
• Lynne Featherstone
• Mark Field
• Don Foster
• Liam Fox
• Mark Francois (Con)
• George Freeman (Con)
• Mike Freer
• Lorraine Fullbrook
• Richard Fuller (Con)
• Edward Garnier
• Mark Garnier (Con)
• David Gauke
• Andrew George (LD)
• Nick Gibb
• Stephen Gilbert
• John Glen (Con)
• Robert Goodwill
• Michael Gove
• Helen Grant (Con)
• James Gray
• Chris Grayling
• Damian Green
• Justine Greening
• Dominic Grieve
• Andrew Griffiths
• Ben Gummer
• Sam Gyimah
• Robert Halfon
• Duncan Hames
• Stephen Hammond
• Matthew Hancock
• Greg Hands
• Mark Harper
• Richard Harrington
• Rebecca Harris (Con)
• Simon Hart
• Nick Harvey
• Alan Haselhurst
• John Hayes (Con)
• Oliver Heald
• David Heath
• Chris Heaton-Harris
• John Hemming
• Gordon Henderson
• Nick Herbert
• Damian Hinds (Con)
• Mark Hoban
• Philip Hollobone
• Adam Holloway
• Kris Hopkins
• Martin Horwood
• Gerald Howarth
• John Howell
• Simon Hughes
• Mark Hunter
• Julian Huppert
• Nick Hurd
• Stewart Jackson
• Margot James
• Sajid Javid
• Bernard Jenkin (Con)
• Gareth Johnson
• Andrew Jones
• David Jones
• Marcus Jones
• Daniel Kawczynski
• Chris Kelly
• Simon Kirby
• Greg Knight
• Kwasi Kwarteng
• Eleanor Laing
• Norman Lamb
• Mark Lancaster
• Andrew Lansley
• Pauline Latham
• David Laws
• Andrea Leadsom
• Jessica Lee
• Phillip Lee
• John Leech
• Jeremy Lefroy
• Charlotte Leslie
• Brandon Lewis
• Julian Lewis (Con)
• Ian Liddell-Grainger
• David Lidington
• Peter Lilley
• Jack Lopresti
• Jonathan Lord
• Tim Loughton
• Peter Luff
• Karen Lumley
• Mary Macleod
• Anne Main
• Paul Maynard
• Jason McCartney
• Karl McCartney
• Anne McIntosh
• Patrick McLoughlin
• Stephen McPartland
• Esther McVey (Con)
• Stephen Metcalfe
• Maria Miller
• Nigel Mills
• Anne Milton
• Andrew Mitchell (Con)
• Michael Moore
• Penny Mordaunt
• Nicky Morgan
• Anne Marie Morris
• David Morris
• James Morris
• Stephen Mosley
• David Mowat
• Greg Mulholland
• David Mundell (Con)
• Tessa Munt (LD)
• Sheryll Murray
• Andrew Murrison (Con)
• Bob Neill
• Brooks Newmark
• Sarah Newton
• Caroline Nokes (Con)
• Jesse Norman (Con)
• David Nuttall
• Stephen O'Brien
• Matthew Offord
• Eric Ollerenshaw
• Guy Opperman
• James Paice
• Neil Parish
• Priti Patel (Con)
• Owen Paterson
• Mark Pawsey
• Mike Penning
• John Penrose
• Andrew Percy
• Claire Perry
• Stephen Phillips
• Daniel Poulter
• Mark Prisk
• Mark Pritchard (Con)
• John Pugh
• Dominic Raab
• John Randall
• John Redwood
• Jacob Rees-Mogg
• Alan Reid
• Malcolm Rifkind
• Andrew Robathan
• Laurence Robertson
• Dan Rogerson
• Andrew Rosindell (Ref)
• Amber Rudd
• David Ruffley
• Bob Russell
• David Rutley
• Adrian Sanders
• Laura Sandys
• Lee Scott
• Andrew Selous
• Grant Shapps
• Alok Sharma
• Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
• Richard Shepherd
• Mark Simmonds
• Keith Simpson
• Chris Skidmore
• Chloe Smith
• Henry Smith
• Julian Smith (Con)
• Robert Smith
• Nicholas Soames
• Anna Soubry
• Caroline Spelman
• Mark Spencer
• John Stanley
• Andrew Stephenson
• John Stevenson
• Bob Stewart
• Iain Stewart
• Gary Streeter
• Mel Stride (Con)
• Andrew Stunell
• Julian Sturdy
• Ian Swales
• Desmond Swayne (Con)
• Jo Swinson
• Hugo Swire
• Robert Syms
• Mike Thornton
• Edward Timpson
• Justin Tomlinson
• David Tredinnick
• Elizabeth Truss
• Andrew Turner
• Andrew Tyrie
• Paul Uppal
• Shailesh Vara
• Martin Vickers (Con)
• Theresa Villiers
• Robin Walker
• Ben Wallace
• David Ward
• Mike Weatherley
• Steve Webb
• James Wharton
• Heather Wheeler
• Chris White
• Craig Whittaker
• John Whittingdale (Con)
• Bill Wiggin
• David Willetts
• Mark Williams
• Roger Williams
• Stephen Williams
• Gavin Williamson (Con)
• Jennifer Willott
• Rob Wilson
• Sammy Wilson (DUP)
• Sarah Wollaston
• Jeremy Wright (Con)
• Simon Wright
• Tim Yeo
• George Young
• Nadhim Zahawi

More Information

• http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130604/debtext/130604-0003.htm#130604-0003.htm_subhd1
• https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-06-04&number=19
• https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-06-04b.1469.4

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