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Lords division · 15 Mar 2019 · No. 3

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

Lord Northbrook moved amendment 12, in clause 2, page 1, line 8, to leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert:“(2) For section 2(3) to (5) substitute:“(3) Standing Orders must provide for:(a) the 90 people to be excepted for the duration of a Parliament; and (b) the Hereditary Peers Commission, at the beginning of each Parliament, to determine which holders of hereditary peerages should fill the 90 places provided for in subsection (2).(4) Schedule 1A makes provision about the Hereditary Peers Commission.”” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 33

Contents: 15 Not Contents: 48

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 33 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 11
Crossbench 3
Non-affiliated 1

Not Contents

Labour 30
Liberal Democrat 11
Crossbench 4
Non-affiliated 2
Conservative 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 Trefgarne (Content), Lord Northbrook (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Snape (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (13)

Not Contents (46)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.