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Lords division · 3 Dec 2012 · No. 1

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2012

Lord Bach moved, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Order be approved, to leave out from “that” to the end and insert “this House declines to approve the draft Order laid before the House on 29 October as it does not fulfil the undertaking given by Her Majesty’s Government on 17 April; and will mean claimants, including a disproportionate number of disabled people, will not receive legal help on a point of law in first-tier tribunals relating to welfare benefits thus denying them a fair hearing on point of law cases”. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 10

Contents: 201 Not Contents: 191

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 10 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 152
Crossbench 34
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Labour 1
Liberal Democrat 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 124
Liberal Democrat 40
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 7
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Independent Ulster Unionist 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 Newby (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (199)

Not Contents (189)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.