The Prime Minister has been urged to stand up to European judges and refuse to give prisoners the right to vote.
David Cameron said efforts were being made to reform the European Court of Human Rights to ensure it paid attention to national parliaments in future.
He said he wanted the UK's response to the court's rulings to be "as close as possible" to the view expressed by MPs who earlier this year voted in favour of retaining the current ban on giving prisoners the vote.
At Prime Minister's questions Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for Kettering, said: "On February 10 this House voted overwhelmingly, by a majority of 10 to one, to continue the ban on giving prisoners the vote, since which time the European Court of Human Rights has effectively ignored the will of this House and still insists the law be changed and has given the Government until October to bring forward proposals."
He asked whether the Government would "bend its knee to the European court or will it stand up and insist that on this issue Britain will not budge".
Mr Cameron told him: "The House of Commons has given a very clear view that prisoners shouldn't have the vote, my own view is that prisoners shouldn't have the vote."
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke was leading efforts to reform the court "to make sure it does pay more attention to national judgments and national parliaments".
Mr Cameron added: "At the same time we will have to consider our response to this issue and I want it to be as close as possible to the clearly expressed will of the House of Commons."
