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Lords division · 9 Mar 2016 · No. 1

Immigration Bill

Lord Alton of Liverpool moved amendment 57, after clause 36, to insert the new clause Asylum seekers: permission to work after six months. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 85

Contents: 280 Not Contents: 195

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 85 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 139
Liberal Democrat 70
Crossbench 53
Non-affiliated 12
Conservative 2
Bishops 2
Plaid Cymru 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1

Not Contents

Conservative 164
Crossbench 17
Non-affiliated 9
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 2
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 Alton of Liverpool (Content), Baroness Hamwee (Content), Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Not Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (278)

Not Contents (193)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.