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Lords division · 21 Mar 2007 · No. 1

Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007

Baroness O’Cathain moved an amendment to the motion that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 13 March be approved to leave out all the words after “that” and insert “this House, having regard to the widespread concerns that the draft Regulations compromise religious liberty and will result in litigation over the content of classroom teaching, and having regard to the legality of the equivalent regulations for Northern Ireland, declines to approve the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 46

Contents: 122 Not Contents: 168

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 46 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 69
Crossbench 33
Labour 9
Non-affiliated 3
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Bishops 2
Independent Labour 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Liberal Democrat 1

Not Contents

Labour 102
Liberal Democrat 34
Crossbench 20
Non-affiliated 9
Conservative 3

The party breakdowns are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Peers attend divisions ad hoc, so there is no did-not-vote list. Tellers are counted in the Content and Not Content totals, unlike in the Commons.

Tellers: Baroness O'Cathain (Content), Lord Palmer (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Lord Grocott (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (120)

Not Contents (166)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.