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Lords division · 30 Jun 2008 · No. 2

Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008

Lord Morrow moved, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Order be approved, to leave out from "that" to the end and insert "this House declines to approve the draft Order laid before the House on 30 April because of opposition in Northern Ireland to lowering the age of consent". The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 80

Contents: 66 Not Contents: 146

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 80 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 37
Crossbench 16
Labour 4
Non-affiliated 3
Bishops 2
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Independent Labour 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1

Not Contents

Labour 87
Liberal Democrat 36
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 10
Conservative 2

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 Browne of Belmont (Content), Lord Laird (Content), Lord Bach (Not Content), Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (64)

Not Contents (144)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.