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Lords division · 22 Jan 2001 · No. 1

Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations 2000

It was moved by the Lord Hunt of Kings Heath that the draft Regulations laid before the House on 12th December be approved; then it was moved by the Lord Alton of Liverpool, as an amendment thereto, to leave out all the words after "That" and insert "this House declines to approve the draft Regulations laid before the House on 12th December until a Select Committee of the House of Lords has reported on the issues connected with human cloning and stem cell research"; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 120

Contents: 92 Not Contents: 212

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 120 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 58
Crossbench 17
Labour 6
Non-affiliated 4
Liberal Democrat 2
Bishops 2
Independent Labour 1
Independent Socialist 1
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 90
Crossbench 42
Conservative 38
Liberal Democrat 32
Non-affiliated 8
Independent Social Democrat 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: Baroness Cox (Content), Lord Hylton (Content), Lord Dubs (Not Content), Baroness Northover (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (90)

Not Contents (210)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.