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Lords division · 23 Jan 2012 · No. 2

Welfare Reform Bill

The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds moved amendment 59, in clause 94, page 63, line 25, after “benefits” to insert “with the exclusion of child benefit”. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 15

Contents: 252 Not Contents: 237

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

Labour 165
Crossbench 46
Liberal Democrat 20
Non-affiliated 11
Bishops 5
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 141
Crossbench 49
Liberal Democrat 35
Non-affiliated 9
Independent Labour 1
Ulster Unionist Party 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: The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds (Content), Baroness Sherlock (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (250)

Not Contents (235)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.