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Lords division · 9 Dec 1999 · No. 1

House of Lords Offices Select Committee Report House of Lords Offices Select Committee Report

It was moved by the Chairman of Committees that the First Report from the Select Committee be agreed to; then it was moved by the Lord Williams of Elvel as an amendment thereto, at end to insert “except for paragraph 2(b);”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 46

Contents: 76 Not Contents: 122

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 46 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

Labour 60
Crossbench 7
Liberal Democrat 5
Non-affiliated 4

Not Contents

Conservative 64
Crossbench 28
Liberal Democrat 19
Non-affiliated 4
Labour 3
Bishops 2
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Green 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 Shepherd (Content), Lord Williams of Elvel (Content), Lord Henley (Not Content), The Earl of Erroll (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (74)

Not Contents (120)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.