Lords division · 27 Apr 2017 · No. 1

Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Lord Clark of Windermere moved that this House regrets that the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, which pave the way for students of nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals to receive loans rather than bursaries, have already been seen to discourage degree applications by a quarter, at the same time as Brexit has already reduced European Union migrant nursing and midwifery registrations by over 90 per cent; and that these factors risk turning an increasing problem in the National Health Service into a chronic one that potentially puts at risk safe levels of staffing (SI 2017/114). The House divided :

The Not Contents have it

Majority 38

Contents: 121 Not Contents: 159

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 38 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 83
Liberal Democrat 21
Crossbench 12
Non-affiliated 5

Not Contents

Conservative 140
Crossbench 10
Non-affiliated 7
Ulster 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 (119)

Not Contents (157)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.