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Lords division · 23 Sep 2020 · No. 2

Civil Procedure (Coronavirus) Rules 2020

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede moved that the House regrets that the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 will not continue to protect tenants from eviction, and calls on Her Majesty’s Government to amend the Housing Act 1998 to give courts temporary discretion on evictions, including on evictions arising from rent arrears (SI 2020/751). The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 31

Contents: 268 Not Contents: 237

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 31 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 121
Liberal Democrat 75
Crossbench 49
Non-affiliated 14
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Conservative 193
Crossbench 32
Non-affiliated 9
Ulster Unionist Party 2
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 (268)

Not Contents (237)

Source: the official Lords division record.