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Lords division · 13 Feb 2013 · No. 1

Universal Credit Regulations 2013

Baroness Sherlock moved, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013 be approved, at the end to insert "but that this House regrets that the Regulations will not achieve their aim of making work pay for all and in fact will provide lower work incentives for 2.1 million households; will have the effect of penalising savers; will result in a cut in childcare support for working families; will result in cuts to the income of some of the poorest and most vulnerable in the country and will have a disproportionate impact on women and lone parent families; do not meet the needs of disabled people; do not provide adequate treatment of small businesses and the self-employed; and risk pushing many families into arrears and homelessness". The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 70

Contents: 169 Not Contents: 239

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 70 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 129
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Conservative 147
Liberal Democrat 60
Crossbench 20
Non-affiliated 8
Lord Speaker 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 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), Baroness Smith of Basildon (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Newby (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (167)

Not Contents (237)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.