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Lords division · 28 Apr 2021 · No. 4

Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021

Lord Shinkwin 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?they give the Secretary of State the power actively to commission discrimination in Northern Ireland by denying unborn human beings with disabilities the same protections afforded non-disabled human beings between 24 weeks gestation and full term; and because such commissioning would implicate the Secretary of State, and by extension Her Majesty’s Government, in the perpetuation of negative stereotypes towards people with disabilities, as it would provide that while unborn non-disabled human beings from 24 weeks’ gestation are worthy of protection from termination, those who might be born with disabilities are not.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 339

Contents: 70 Not Contents: 409

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 339 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

Conservative 31
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 6
Bishops 6
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Liberal Democrat 2
Labour 2
Lord Speaker 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 135
Labour 127
Liberal Democrat 68
Crossbench 53
Non-affiliated 22
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1
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 (70)

Not Contents (409)

Source: the official Lords division record.