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Lords division · 22 Oct 2009 · No. 1

Welfare Reform Bill

Lord Freud moved amendment 6, in clause 2, page 4, line 21, at end to insert: “( ) Nothing in this section shall cause any financial sanction to be imposed in the case of a single parent with a child under five years of age.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 6

Contents: 103 Not Contents: 97

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 6 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 55
Liberal Democrat 27
Crossbench 17
Non-affiliated 3
Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 80
Crossbench 12
Non-affiliated 5

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 Anelay of St Johns (Content), Baroness Seccombe (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (101)

Not Contents (95)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.