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Lords division · 5 Mar 2012 · No. 2

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Baroness Scotland of Asthal moved amendment 2, in clause 1, page 1, line 6, at end to insert: “( ) In exercising the duty under subsection (1), the Lord Chancellor must ensure that victims of domestic violence are able to access civil legal services in accordance with the financial eligibility criteria in section 20 (financial resources).” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 37

Contents: 238 Not Contents: 201

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 37 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 167
Crossbench 58
Non-affiliated 9
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Bishops 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Conservative 121
Liberal Democrat 53
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 6
Ulster Unionist Party 2
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 Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (236)

Not Contents (199)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.