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Lords division · 27 Mar 2012 · No. 1

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Baroness Grey-Thompson moved amendment 3, in Schedule 1, page 140, line 5, at end to insert: “Children under 18 1 (1) Civil legal services in relation to advice and proceedings where a child is, or proposes to be, the applicant or respondent in proceedings, or where the child is represented by a legal guardian, including: (a) private family law; (b) any benefit, allowance, payment, credit or pension under: (i) the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, (ii) the Jobseekers Act 1995, (iii) the State Pension Credit Act 2002, (iv) the Tax Credits Act 2002, (v) the Welfare Reform Act 2007, (vi) the Welfare Reform Act 2011, or (vii) any other enactment relating to social security; (c) all areas of education law not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (d) all areas of housing law not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (e) all areas of debt-related disputes not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (f) all areas of immigration and asylum law not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (g) all areas of clinical negligence law not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (h) all areas of consumer law not otherwise covered in this Schedule; (i) appeals to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority; (j) civil legal services relating to a review or appeal under section 11 or 13 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007; and (k) civil legal services relating to an appeal to the Supreme Court.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 12

Contents: 232 Not Contents: 220

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

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 155
Crossbench 57
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 4
Conservative 3
Plaid Cymru 1
Liberal Democrat 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Conservative 128
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 21
Non-affiliated 11
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Ulster Unionist Party 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), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (230)

Not Contents (218)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.