List of Tory fracking abstentions

The government won tonight’s opposition day debate on shale gas extraction, but only after confusion around whether it amounted to a vote of confidence or not. Amid scenes of carnage in the Commons, no Tory MPs defied the three-line whip to vote against Labour’s motion but some 40 did abstain. A full list of those who did is below. Some, like Ben Wallace, will have been ‘paired’ as they were away on government business, others were not:

1. Nigel Adams
2. Stuart Andrew
3. Gareth Bacon
4. Siobhan Baillie
5. Greg Clark
6. Geoffrey Cox
7. Tracey Crouch
8. David Davis
9. Caroline Dinenage
10. Nadine Dorries
11. Iain Duncan Smith
12. Phillip Dunne
13. Mark Fletcher
14. Vicky Ford
15. Paul Holmes
16. Alastair Jack
17. Boris Johnson
18. Gillian Keegan
19. Kwasi Kwarteng
20. Robert Largan
21. Pauline Latham
22. Mark Logan
23. Theresa May
24. Wendy Morton
25. Priti Patel
26. Mark Pawsey
27. Angela Richardson
28. Andrew Rosindell
29. Bob Seely
30. Alok Sharma
31. Chris Skidmore
32. Henry Smith
33. Mark Spencer
34. Liz Truss
35. Ben Wallace
36. John Whittingdale
37. William Wragg
38. Jeremy Wright

James Duddridge was also marked as abstaining but subsequently tweeted that his card had not scanned properly.