Lords division · 12 Mar 2009 · No. 1

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]

Lord Selsdon moved amendment 1, in clause 1, page 1, line 2, to leave out subsection (1) and insert: “(1) Any Member introduced into the House of Lords after the passing of this Act shall be a British citizen for taxation purposes. (1A) For the purposes of this Act “British citizen” means— (a) a citizen of England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; or (b) a citizen of Her Majesty’s Crown Dependencies and Her Majesty’s Crown Dependencies are— (i) The Isle of Man, (ii) The Bailiwick of Jersey, (iii) the Bailiwick of Guernsey; or (c) a citizen of Her Majesty’s Overseas Territories who holds British citizenship under the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 and Her Majesty’s Overseas Territories are— (i) Anguilla, (ii) Bermuda, (iii) British Antarctic Territory, (iv) British Indian Ocean Territory, (v) British Virgin Islands, (vi) Cayman Islands, (vii) Falkland Islands, (viii) Gibraltar, (ix) Montserrat, (x) Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, (xi) St Helena and her dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cuhna, (xii) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. (1B) For the purposes of this Act a member of the House of Lords who is a citizen of one of Her Majesty’s Realms may be granted British citizenship without surrendering the current citizenship of a country of Her Majesty’s Realms which are— (a) Antigua and Barbuda, (b) Australia, (c) The Bahamas, (d) Barbados, (e) Belize, (f) Canada, (g) Grenada, (h) Jamaica, (i) New Zealand, (j) Papua New Guinea, (k) St Kitts and Nevis, (l) St Lucia, (m) St Vincent and Grenadines, (n) Solomon Islands, (o) Tuvalu. (1C) For the purposes of this Act, a member of the House of Lords who was born in any country of the Commonwealth prior to independence of that country may be granted British citizenship without surrendering the current citizenship of the country of birth.” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 29

Contents: 8 Not Contents: 37

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 29 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative

Not Contents

Liberal Democrat	17
Labour	11
Crossbench	5
Non-affiliated	3
Conservative	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: Lord Selsdon (Content), Lord Trefgarne (Content), Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).