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Lords division · 6 Sep 2011 · No. 2

Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011

Lord Low of Dalston 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 Government have seriously weakened the Regulations, making it more difficult to hold public bodies to account; and calls on the Government to withdraw the Regulations and re-lay the earlier version published in January which required public bodies to publish information on equality analyses they have undertaken, to set objectives designed to facilitate compliance with the General Equality Duty and publish information about the engagement they have had with affected groups when developing these objectives, and to report annually on progress towards meeting these objectives, all of which is critical to ensuring that the General Equality Duty produces tangible and positive outcomes.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 12

Contents: 166 Not Contents: 178

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 12 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 122
Crossbench 34
Non-affiliated 7
Liberal Democrat 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 82
Liberal Democrat 50
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 8
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Labour 2
Lord Speaker 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 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 Finlay of Llandaff (Content), Lord Laming (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (164)

Not Contents (176)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.