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Lords division · 7 Apr 2010 · No. 1

Business of the House

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon moved that Standing Order 41 (Arrangement of the Order Paper) be suspended until the end of the Session so far as is necessary to give Her Majesty’s Government the power to arrange the order of business; and that Standing Order 47 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be suspended for the same period; then Lord Tyler moved to leave out “Standing Order 47 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day)” and insert “Standing Orders 47 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) and 49 (Amendments on Third Reading)”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 160

Contents: 55 Not Contents: 215

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 160 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 41
Crossbench 10
Non-affiliated 2
Conservative 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 102
Conservative 62
Crossbench 40
Non-affiliated 7
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Bishops 1
Lord Speaker 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 Addington (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (53)

Not Contents (213)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.