Mr Clarke has promised a free vote on European issues, including joining a common currency.
MPs is known to support Mr Foster's bill, and the government has promised a free vote.
The plans have divided the Conservative Party - its MPs will get a free vote.
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Prime Minister David Cameron has promised his MPs a free vote on the issue.
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However, out of either conviction or overconfidence the Saakashvili government held a free vote.
Tories have been promised a free vote, but the issue has divided the party.
Conservative MPs will get a free vote on whether to introduce same-sex marriage.
But Jakarta will leave it to the people to digest, consider and decide in a free vote.
But it will be interesting to see what happens in next Thursday's free vote on MPs' expenses.
The Tory backbenchers' shop steward, Graham Brady, is proposing a "free vote" of Tory backbenchers with ministers abstaining.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill 2012-13 was backed by a majority of 225 MPs following a free vote.
The UUP allowed a free vote on the amendment with Mike Nesbitt, Michael Copeland, Danny Kinahan and Sandra Overend voting against.
If Mr Kohl's lot and the Bavarians cannot agree, say the liberals, then parliament should have a free vote next year.
MPs were given a free vote on the bill, meaning they were not ordered to vote a particular way by party whips.
It is highly controversial and last week Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave in to demands for a free vote on the issue.
Lawmakers have a free vote on the bill, meaning they can vote according to their personal convictions rather than the party line.
MPs will have a free vote on the bill, meaning they will not be ordered to vote for or against by party whips.
Downing Street sought to play down the significance of the split in the Conservative Party, stressing that it had been a free vote.
But Mr Paterson insisted it was still the government's intention to have a free vote "but we need to choose an appropriate moment".
While MPs are traditionally given a "free vote" on abortion, the Department of Health's letter to MPs says all health ministers are against the idea.
Not until 1947, two years after the second world war and the defeat of fascism, did the country elect a president on a free vote.
Conservative assembly members will have a free vote on the issue.
He also pledged that the Conservatives, if elected, would produce a Government Bill to repeal the hunting ban and give MPs a free vote on it.
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But he also indicated all the parties would prefer MPs to have a "free vote" on the issue, while stressing that was not a decision for him.
MPs have a free vote on their own pay (although not for much longer, as the government has asked a senior civil servant to recommend a less inflammatory alternative).
More specifically I wanted to know whether she hoped the government would deliver on its pledge to offer a free vote on repealing the hunting ban in this Parliament.
Members of all four parties had a free vote when they debated the motion to outlaw smacking in Wales by removing the defence of "chastisement" for smacking a child.
But though all opposition parties made clear that they did not wish to bring the government down, he rejected a free vote: this was to be all or nothing.
MPs had no patience for such nuances: in a free vote on February 14th, they outlawed smoking from the summer of 2007 in all restaurants, pubs and clubs in England.
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