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Lords division · 15 Feb 2001 · No. 1

(DISQUALIFICATION OF PART IV FOR NORTHERN IRELAND PARTIES, ETC.) ORDER 2001:

It was moved by the Lord Cope of Berkeley, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Order, at end to insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Order allows political parties in Northern Ireland to receive funds from foreign donors; dispenses with the requirement for political parties in Northern Ireland to keep records of donations and to report them to the Electoral Commission; and allows foreign funding to be used by Northern Ireland political parties when participating in future United Kingdom referendums and in any future referendum on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.”.; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 42

Contents: 112 Not Contents: 154

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 42 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 89
Crossbench 19
Non-affiliated 2
Conservative Independent 1
Independent Socialist 1

Not Contents

Labour 103
Liberal Democrat 30
Non-affiliated 13
Crossbench 6
Bishops 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 Burnham (Content), Lord Henley (Content), Lord Carter (Not Content), The Lord McIntosh of Haringey (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (110)

Not Contents (152)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.