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Lords division · 13 Jul 2021 · No. 4

Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship) (Bilge Alarm) Regulations 2021

Lord Berkeley moved that this House regrets that the Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship) (Bilge Alarm) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/592), introduced as a result of the accident involving the ‘Abigail H’ at the port of Heysham in November 2008, have taken over 11 years to be introduced; further regrets that this delay has put at risk the safety of crews of 425 ships of a similar type on the UK Ship Register; and notes that nine similar incidents to those at Heysham had been reported to the Marine and Coastguard Agency since 1996. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 32

Contents: 179 Not Contents: 211

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 32 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 112
Liberal Democrat 37
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 9
Green Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 188
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 9
Lord Speaker 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Liberal Democrat 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 (179)

Not Contents (211)

Source: the official Lords division record.