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Lords division · 28 Jan 2014 · No. 1

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

Lord Harries of Pentregarth moved Motion B1, as an amendment to Motion B, to leave out from “House” to end and insert “do not insist on its Amendments 26 and 27 but do propose Amendment 26B in lieu.” Page 16, leave out lines 10 to 23 and insert: “2A (1) For the purposes of this Schedule, “third party constituency expenditure” means controlled expenditure incurred by or on behalf of a third party. (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 Not Contents have it

Majority 18

Contents: 231 Not Contents: 249

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 18 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 139
Crossbench 73
Non-affiliated 8
Bishops 6
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Independent Labour 1
Green Party 1
Conservative 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 145
Liberal Democrat 68
Crossbench 20
Non-affiliated 12
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 Patel (Content), Lord Ramsbotham (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Newby (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (229)

Not Contents (247)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.