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Lords division · 5 Feb 2013 · No. 1

Defamation Bill

Lord Puttnam moved amendment 1, after clause 1, to insert the new clause Arbitration Service for defamation and related civil claims against members of Independent Regulatory Board. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 131

Contents: 272 Not Contents: 141

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 131 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 170
Crossbench 67
Non-affiliated 13
Conservative 12
Bishops 5
Liberal Democrat 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 103
Liberal Democrat 16
Crossbench 14
Non-affiliated 7
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 (270)

Not Contents (139)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.