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Lords division · 3 Apr 2014 · No. 1

Housing Benefit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Baroness Sherlock moved that this House regrets that the Housing Benefit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 are being introduced without Her Majesty’s Government’s full understanding of the numbers of those affected; regrets that confusion and uncertainty are being added to an already unjust policy; deplores that Her Majesty’s Government’s mishandling has resulted in households being unlawfully charged and further pushed into hardship; and regrets the likely disproportionate impact of the Regulations on the most vulnerable (SI 2014/212).The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 15

Contents: 173 Not Contents: 188

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 15 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 142
Crossbench 21
Non-affiliated 7
Liberal Democrat 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 121
Liberal Democrat 42
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 6
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 (171)

Not Contents (186)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.