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Lords division · 21 Jan 2014 · No. 1

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

Lord Harries of Pentregarth moved amendment 11, in clause 29, page 18, to leave out lines 5 to 18 and insert: “(1) For the purposes of this Schedule “third party constituency expenditure” means controlled expenditure incurred by or on behalf of a third party in relation to: (a) election material falling within paragraph 1 of Schedule 8A which is addressed to electors (whether addressed to them by name or intended for delivery to households or otherwise distributed within any particular constituency or constituencies), or (b) unsolicited telephone calls falling within paragraph 2 of Schedule 8A, made to such electors or households which can reasonably be regarded as intended to ascertain or influence their voting intention, where the effects are wholly or substantially confined to any particular constituencies or constituency. (2) Third party constituency expenditure: (a) shall be attributed to those constituencies in equal proportions, or (b) shall be attributed solely to that constituency, as the case may be. (3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the effects of third party constituency expenditure are wholly or substantially confined to any particular constituencies or constituency if: (a) there is no significant effect in any other constituency or constituencies, and (b) it can reasonably be inferred that the third party selected the relevant electors or households (or both) or otherwise distributed the material wholly or substantially to contact electors in the particular constituency or constituencies and not a wider section of the public.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 26

Contents: 248 Not Contents: 222

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 26 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 153
Crossbench 72
Non-affiliated 11
Bishops 4
Conservative 2
Liberal Democrat 2
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Green Party 1
Independent Labour 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 137
Liberal Democrat 60
Crossbench 14
Non-affiliated 9
Ulster Unionist Party 2

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 Patel (Content), Lord Ramsbotham (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Newby (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (246)

Not Contents (220)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.