Lords division · 15 Sep 2020 · No. 2

Agriculture Bill

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch moved amendment 31, in clause 4, page 5, line 14, at end to insert—“( ) The Secretary of State must have regard to the current environmental improvement plan when setting out strategic priorities for giving financial assistance during the plan period.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 50

Contents: 258 Not Contents: 208

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 50 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 117
Liberal Democrat 71
Crossbench 50
Non-affiliated 13
Green Party 2
Bishops 2
Conservative 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 174
Crossbench 23
Non-affiliated 8
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Labour 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.

Every vote

Contents (258)

Not Contents (208)

Source: the official Lords division record.