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Lords division · 8 Mar 2017 · No. 2

Higher Education and Research Bill

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich moved amendment 116A, as an amendment to amendment 116, at end to insert: “( ) The OfS must not authorise a provider unless: (a) the provider has been established for a minimum of four years with satisfactory validation arrangements in place, or (b) the Quality Assessment Committee is assured that the provider is fully able to maintain the required standard expected for the granting of a United Kingdom degree for the duration of the authorisation, and may therefore be authorised to grant taught awards or research awards or both, and has reported to the Secretary of State; and the OfS is assured that the provider operated in the public interest and in the interest of students. ( ) In this section the “Quality Assessment Committee” is the Committee established under section 25 and “validation arrangements” has the same meaning as in section 47(4).” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 15

Contents: 201 Not Contents: 186

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

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 101
Liberal Democrat 59
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 11
Green Party 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 158
Crossbench 13
Non-affiliated 7
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Bishops 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 Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (199)

Not Contents (184)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.