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Lords division · 19 Mar 2012 · No. 3

Health and Social Care Bill

Baroness Thornton moved, as an amendment to the motion that the bill do now pass, to leave out from “that” to the end and insert “this House declines to allow the bill to pass, because the bill does not command the support of patients who depend on the National Health Service, the professionals who are expected to make it work, or the public; will not deliver the promised objectives of genuinely empowering clinicians in the commissioning process and putting patients at the heart of the system; will increase bureaucracy and fragment commissioning; will allow Foundation Trusts to raise up to half their income from private patients; and, despite amendment, still creates an economic regulator and regime which will lead to the fragmentation and marketisation of the National Health Service and threaten its ethos and purpose”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 95

Contents: 174 Not Contents: 269

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 95 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 143
Crossbench 17
Non-affiliated 10
Liberal Democrat 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Social Democrat 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 158
Liberal Democrat 66
Crossbench 33
Non-affiliated 9
Independent Ulster Unionist 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: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (172)

Not Contents (267)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.