Lords division · 30 Apr 2009 · No. 1

Cohabitation Bill [HL]

Baroness Deech moved amendment 3, in clause 2, page 2, line 12, to leave out "taken into account" and insert "disregarded". The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 13

Contents: 11 Not Contents: 24

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 13 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	10
Crossbench	1

Not Contents

Labour	11
Liberal Democrat	7
Crossbench	5
Non-affiliated	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 Henley (Content), Baroness Deech (Content), Baroness Butler-Sloss (Not Content), Baroness Thomas of Walliswood (Not Content).