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Lords division · 20 Mar 2018 · No. 3

Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England) Regulations 2018

Lord Bassam of Brighton moved that this House regrets Her Majesty's Government bringing forward changes in entitlement to free school meals through the Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England) Regulations 2018 which will undermine work incentives in Universal Credit and leave up to a million poor children unable to claim free school meals; and calls on Her Majesty’s Government not to implement the Regulations until a full poverty impact assessment has been completed and considered by both Houses, and not before six months has elapsed (SI 2018/148). The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 7

Contents: 167 Not Contents: 160

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 7 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 86
Liberal Democrat 59
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 143
Non-affiliated 6
Crossbench 5
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
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 McAvoy (Content), Baroness Sherlock (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (165)

Not Contents (158)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.