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Lords division · 7 Sep 2018 · No. 1

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]

Lord Trefgarne moved amendment 11, in clause 1, page 1, line 4, to leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert— “(2) In section 2, after subsection (4) insert— “(4A) Standing Orders must provide that vacancies amongst the 90 excepted hereditary peers are filled by a method which ensures that the excepted hereditary peer is younger than the average age of members of the House of Lords at the time the vacancy occurs.”” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 94

Contents: 23 Not Contents: 117

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 94 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 16
Crossbench 2
Labour 2
Non-affiliated 2
Independent Ulster Unionist 1

Not Contents

Labour 45
Liberal Democrat 34
Crossbench 20
Conservative 12
Non-affiliated 5
Ulster Unionist Party 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 Rooker (Content), Lord Snape (Content), Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Not Content), Lord Triesman (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (21)

Not Contents (115)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.