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Lords division · 2 Nov 2021 · No. 1

Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill

Baroness Altmann moved amendment 3, in clause 1, page 1, line 7, to leave out from the first “of” to end of line 8 and insert “earnings obtaining in Great Britain, as adjusted to take account of the exceptional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of earnings.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 42

Contents: 220 Not Contents: 178

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 42 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 100
Liberal Democrat 61
Crossbench 41
Non-affiliated 13
Conservative 2
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 153
Crossbench 15
Non-affiliated 9
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 (220)

Not Contents (178)

Source: the official Lords division record.