Lords division · 12 Jan 2010 · No. 1

Asylum (EUC Report)

Lord Roper moved that this House agrees the recommendations of the European Union Committee that Her Majesty’s Government should exercise their right, in accordance with the Protocol on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, to take part in the adoption and application of the proposed Directives on Asylum Qualifications and Asylum Procedures (documents 14863/09 and 14959/09) (First Report, HL Paper 6). The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 38

Contents: 41 Not Contents: 79

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 38 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat	30
Crossbench	6
Non-affiliated	3
Conservative	2

Not Contents

Labour	66
Crossbench	8
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: Lord Addington (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content).