Lords division · 14 Dec 2020 · No. 1

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Lord Hope of Craighead moved Motion A1, as an amendment to Motion A, at end to insert “but do propose Amendments 1F, 1G, 1H, 1J, 1K and 1L in lieu—Clause 101F Page 7, line 23, at end insert—“( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations under subsection (2) exclude the application of the United Kingdom market access principles to a statutory provision or requirement that gives effect to a decision to diverge from harmonised rules that has been agreed through the common frameworks process.”Clause 151G Page 9, line 27, at end insert—“( ) “Common frameworks process” means the process, established by the Joint Committee on European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning internal market within the United Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom and the devolved governments.”Clause 171H Page 12, line 42, at end insert—“( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations under subsection (2) add the services referred to in a statutory provision or requirement that gives effect to a decision to diverge from harmonised rules that has been agreed through the common frameworks process to the authorisation requirements in Part 3 of Schedule 2 or the list of regulatory requirements, as the case may be, to which section 18 (mutual recognition) or sections 19 and 20 (non-discrimination) do not apply.”Clause 211J Page 14, line 35, at end insert—“common frameworks process” means the process, established by the Joint Committee on European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning internal market within the United Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom and the devolved governments;”Clause 251K Page 19, line 24, at end insert—“( ) The Secretary of State must by regulations subject to the affirmative resolution procedure exclude the application of section 22(2) to a provision which has been agreed through the common frameworks process.”Clause 271L Page 21, line 19, at end insert—“common frameworks process” means the process, established by the Joint Committee on European Negotiations, by which a measure of regulatory consistency to enable a functioning internal market within the United Kingdom may be mutually agreed between the United Kingdom and the devolved governments;”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 103

Contents: 332 Not Contents: 229

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 103 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour	142
Crossbench	86
Liberal Democrat	78
Non-affiliated	18
Conservative	4
Green Party	2
Plaid Cymru	1
Bishops	1

Not Contents

Conservative	194
Crossbench	15
Non-affiliated	12
Democratic Unionist Party	5
Labour	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.