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Lords division · 4 Feb 2008 · No. 1

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

Baroness Williams of Crosby moved amendment 21, in Schedule 2, page 58, to leave out lines 11 to 13 and insert: "(6) No licence under this paragraph is to be granted unless the Authority is satisfied that— (a) any proposed use of embryos or human admixed embryos is necessary for the purposes of the research; (b) there is cogent evidence, which must include published, peer-reviewed scientific data, that— (i) the research proposed on human or human admixed embryos is likely to achieve its specified purposes; and (ii) it is not reasonably practicable to achieve the specified purposes of the research without using human embryos or human admixed embryos." The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 156

Contents: 41 Not Contents: 197

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 156 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 20
Crossbench 8
Labour 4
Liberal Democrat 4
Bishops 2
Non-affiliated 1
Independent Labour 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1

Not Contents

Labour 113
Crossbench 36
Liberal Democrat 25
Conservative 14
Non-affiliated 8
Ulster Unionist Party 1

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 Neill of Bladen (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (39)

Not Contents (195)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.