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Lords division · 14 Mar 2012 · No. 1

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Baroness Grey-Thompson moved amendment 119, in clause 26, page 21, line 11, to leave out subsection (2) and insert: “( ) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Lord Chancellor’s duty under section 1(1) must include a duty to secure that a person eligible to legal aid advice is able to access it in a range of forms at the outset, including securing the provision of initial face-to-face advice.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 28

Contents: 234 Not Contents: 206

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 28 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 152
Crossbench 61
Non-affiliated 11
Bishops 5
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Conservative 1
Independent Labour 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 119
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 21
Non-affiliated 6
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: Baroness Grey-Thompson (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Baroness Verma (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (232)

Not Contents (204)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.