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Lords division · 13 Sep 2017 · No. 1

Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames moved that this House regrets that the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 have been laid with insufficient regard to the overwhelmingly negative response to the proposed Rules during the consultation and to the lack of evidence that significant numbers of unmeritorious environmental claims are currently brought; that they may escalate claimants’ legal costs and act against the intention of the Aarhus Convention that the cost of environmental litigation should not be prohibitive; and that they are likely to have the effect of deterring claimants from bringing meritorious environmental cases (SI 2017/95 (L. 1)). The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 45

Contents: 142 Not Contents: 97

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 45 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 70
Labour 50
Crossbench 15
Non-affiliated 5
Plaid Cymru 1
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 87
Crossbench 6
Non-affiliated 2
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 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: Baroness Humphreys (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (140)

Not Contents (95)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.