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Lords division · 24 Feb 2015 · No. 1

Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015

Earl Howe moved that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 17 December 2014 be approved. Then Lord Deben moved, as an amendment to the above motion, to leave out from “that” to the end and insert “this House declines to approve the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 laid before the House on 17 December 2014 and calls on Her Majesty’s Government not to lay new draft regulations until a joint committee of both Houses has been established and has reported on (1) the safety of the procedures permitted by the draft regulations, (2) the compliance of the draft regulations with European Union and domestic law, and (3) the key definitions used in the draft regulations”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 232

Contents: 48 Not Contents: 280

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 232 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 17
Crossbench 12
Labour 7
Bishops 4
Liberal Democrat 2
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Non-affiliated 1
Independent Labour 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 95
Conservative 69
Crossbench 53
Liberal Democrat 49
Non-affiliated 11
Lord Speaker 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Bishops 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 Hollins (Content), Lord Hylton (Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content), Baroness Jolly (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (46)

Not Contents (278)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.