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Lords division · 7 Sep 2018 · No. 2

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

Lord Northbrook moved amendment 15, 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 for future vacancies to be filled using a method which ensures that over time excepted hereditary peers are elected on a basis which provides for a fair representation of hereditary peers representing Northern Ireland and Scotland, over time reaching the same proportion in relation to the total number of excepted hereditary peers as the proportion of MPs for Northern Ireland, or Scotland, in relation to the total number of MPs in the House of Commons.”” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 88

Contents: 19 Not Contents: 107

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 88 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
Non-affiliated 2
Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 44
Liberal Democrat 28
Crossbench 19
Conservative 10
Non-affiliated 4
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: Lord Rooker (Content), Lord Northbrook (Content), Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Not Content), Lord Triesman (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (17)

Not Contents (105)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.