May 21 2007
Freedom of Information - who voted?
25 MPs voted against the Bill to remove Parliament from the FOI provisions.
They were:
??Labour: Jeremy Corbyn,Jim Cousins,Frank Field, Mark Fisher, Neil Gerrard, Kate Hoey, Dan Norris, Peter Soulsby and David Winnick???? (9)
Conservative: James Clappison, Philip Hollobone, John Maples, John Redwood, Richard Shepherd?? (5)
??Respect: George Galloway
Plaid:?? Hywel Williams
Liberal Democrat: Norman Baker, Lorely Burt, Tim Farron, Sandra Gidley, Julia Goldsworthy, Evan Harris, David Howarth, Simon Hughes, Susan Kramer (9)
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Amongst the 78 Labour MPs who voted it through were:
Nick Brown,John McFall, Tony McNulty, Gillian Merron, Stephen Pound, Martin Salter, John Spellar.
??Ed Balls did not vote to give the Bill a 3 rd Reading (as some have wrongly reported), but he did vote to close down debate so the Bill could be pushed through on two of the divisions to stop discussion.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
