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Lords division · 10 Jul 2013 · No. 1

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

Baroness Deech moved amendment 94, in clause 14, page 13, line 13, at end to insert: “(1A) The review under subsection (1) must deal with the case for amending the criteria in the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which define the eligibility of people to register as civil partners. (1B) The review must in particular consider: (a) the case for extending such eligibility to: (i) unpaid carers and those they care for, and (ii) family members who share a house, provided that they have cohabitated for 5 years or more and are over the age of eighteen, and (b) the case for creating a new legal status that would confer all the benefits of civil partnerships upon those mentioned in paragraph (a) without amending the criteria for eligibility for civil partnership.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 178

Contents: 89 Not Contents: 267

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 178 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 37
Crossbench 35
Labour 7
Non-affiliated 3
Bishops 3
Independent Labour 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 115
Liberal Democrat 56
Conservative 44
Crossbench 38
Non-affiliated 13
Plaid Cymru 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 O'Cathain (Content), Lord Dear (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Newby (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (87)

Not Contents (265)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.