Lords division · 3 Mar 2010 · No. 3

Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2006

Lord Lloyd of Berwick moved an amendment to the motion that the draft Order laid before the House on 1 February be approved at end to insert “but this House regrets that, following the judgment of the House of Lords in Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF and the subsequent revocation of AF’s control order on the ground that he did not have a fair hearing, Her Majesty’s Government have not, in the five years since the Act was passed, found a means of dealing with suspected terrorists that is just and effective; and calls on the Government to introduce primary legislation to limit the duration of control orders to a maximum of one year, without renewal.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 7

Contents: 50 Not Contents: 43

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 7 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat	32
Crossbench	13
Non-affiliated	2
Conservative	2
Ulster Unionist Party	1

Not Contents

Labour	38
Crossbench	3
Non-affiliated	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 Lloyd of Berwick (Content), Lord Addington (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Not Content).