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Lords division · 7 Dec 2020 · No. 2

Trade Bill

Lord Purvis of Tweed moved amendment 6, after clause 2, to insert the new clause Parliamentary approval of trade agreements. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 47

Contents: 308 Not Contents: 261

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 47 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 141
Liberal Democrat 79
Crossbench 64
Non-affiliated 16
Bishops 4
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1
Conservative 1

Not Contents

Conservative 207
Crossbench 32
Non-affiliated 13
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1
Labour 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 (308)

Not Contents (261)

Source: the official Lords division record.