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Lords division · 21 Oct 2021 · No. 2

Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

The Lord Bishop of Durham moved amendment 45, after clause 15, to insert the new clause Universal credit conditionality. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 16

Contents: 166 Not Contents: 150

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 16 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 83
Liberal Democrat 54
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 7
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Green Party 2
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 131
Non-affiliated 7
Crossbench 7
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 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.

Every vote

Contents (166)

Not Contents (150)

Source: the official Lords division record.