House Of Commons Political Make Up

House of Commons is made up of the following:

State of the parties
State of the parties at 10 February 2006
Labour 353
Conservative 196
Liberal Democrat 63
Scottish National Party 6/Plaid Cymru 3
Democratic Unionist 9
Sinn Fein 5
(Have not taken their seats and cannot vote)
Social Democratic & Labour Party3
Independent 2
Ulster Unionist 1
Respect 1

Speaker & 3 Deputies
4
(Do not normally vote)
Total no of seats
646

Current working majority
69
(353 Labour MPs less 284 of all other parties - excludes Speaker & Deputies and Sinn Fein)

That means the Opposition only need 35 Labour members to vote against the Government for the Government to lose a vote. This number would only matter if every member of the House turned up to vote, which isn't always the case.