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Lords division · 28 Apr 2021 · No. 2

Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021

Baroness O’Loan moved, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Viscount Younger of Leckie, to leave out all the words after “that” and insert “this House declines to approve the Regulations laid before the House on 23 March because (1) the Northern Ireland Assembly is now sitting and the matter is devolved to that legislature; (2) the Regulations raise “complex legal and constitutional questions” in the view of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee; (3) the Regulations go beyond the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 in that they undermine the devolution settlement in respect of education as well as abortion policy; (4) there has been no public consultation on the Regulations; and (5) the Regulations were laid shortly before the parliamentary Easter recess, which prevented the House considering them before they took effect.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 325

Contents: 93 Not Contents: 418

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 325 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

Crossbench 36
Conservative 33
Bishops 7
Non-affiliated 6
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Labour 2
Liberal Democrat 2
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Conservative 144
Labour 131
Liberal Democrat 71
Crossbench 47
Non-affiliated 22
Green Party 2
Ulster Unionist Party 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 (93)

Not Contents (418)

Source: the official Lords division record.