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Lords division · 6 Mar 2017 · No. 2

Higher Education and Research Bill

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon moved amendment 52, in clause 15, page 9, line 16, at end to insert: “(2A) The list of principles must include a requirement that every provider: (a) provides all eligible students with the opportunity to opt in to be added to the electoral register through the process of enrolling with that provider, and (b) enters into a data sharing agreement with the local electoral registration officer to add eligible students to the electoral register. (2B) For the purposes of subsection (2A): (a) a “data sharing agreement” is an agreement between the higher education provider and their local authority whereby the provider shares the: (i) name, (ii) address, (iii) nationality, (iv) date of birth, and (v) national insurance data, of all eligible students enrolling or enrolled (or both) with the provider who opt in under subsection (2A)(a); (b) “eligible” means those persons who are: (i) entitled to vote in accordance with section 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, and (ii) a resident in the same local authority as the higher education provider. (2C) Subsection (2A) does not apply to the Open University and other distance learning institutions.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 11

Contents: 200 Not Contents: 189

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 11 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 99
Liberal Democrat 72
Crossbench 24
Non-affiliated 4
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 160
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 9
Bishops 2
Democratic Unionist Party 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 Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (198)

Not Contents (187)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.