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Lords division · 6 Sep 2011 · No. 1

Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011

Lord Waddington moved, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 be approved, at the end to insert “but that this House regrets that the Regulations seem likely to reinforce the failure of equality law to take proper account of freedom of religion and conscience; and notes that the Regulations appear to burden further the public sector with unnecessary bureaucracy and target-setting and will in effect promote equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 132

Contents: 126 Not Contents: 258

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 132 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 72
Crossbench 35
Labour 7
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Non-affiliated 3
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Labour 1
Liberal Democrat 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 122
Liberal Democrat 55
Crossbench 39
Conservative 28
Non-affiliated 13
Plaid Cymru 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 Waddington (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (124)

Not Contents (256)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.