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Lords division · 24 Mar 2009 · No. 2

Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009

Baroness Neville-Jones moved, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Order be approved, at end to insert “but notes with regret the intrusions into privacy that would result from their implementation, in that the Regulations substantially extend the range of communications data that must be collected to include information on personal emails and internet activity, and that the Regulations allow hundreds of different public bodies access to information on personal emails and internet activity; and therefore calls upon the Government to withdraw the Regulations, and to introduce primary legislation on the retention of communications data that will enable detailed parliamentary scrutiny of such proposals.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 4

Contents: 89 Not Contents: 93

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 4 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 54
Liberal Democrat 17
Crossbench 10
Non-affiliated 5
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 83
Non-affiliated 6
Crossbench 4

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), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (87)

Not Contents (91)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.