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Lords division · 29 Jun 2010 · No. 1

House of Lords Reform

Lord Steel of Aikwood moved that this House calls on Her Majesty’s Government, notwithstanding their proposals for Lords reform whose legislative timetable is unclear, to table motions before the summer recess enabling the House to approve or disapprove— (a) a scheme to enable members of the House to retire, (b) the abolition of by-elections for hereditary peers, (c) the removal of members convicted of serious criminal offences, (d) the creation of a statutory appointments commission. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 15

Contents: 44 Not Contents: 29

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 15 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Crossbench 19
Conservative 9
Labour 8
Liberal Democrat 5
Non-affiliated 2
Democratic Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 19
Labour 5
Liberal Democrat 3
Non-affiliated 1
Crossbench 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: Baroness O'Cathain (Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (42)

Not Contents (27)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.