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Lords division · 29 Mar 2023 · No. 1

Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2023

Lord Morrow moved, as an amendment to the motion, leave out after “that” and insert “this House declines to approve the draft Regulations because rather than eliminating the democratic deficit they make provision for law to be made for Northern Ireland in 300 policy areas by the European Union in whose parliament the people of Northern Ireland have no representation; because they only give the Northern Ireland Assembly the right to try to prevent the amending or replacing of EU law in relation to laws pertaining to product regulation, and give no such right in relation to other legislation in areas such as VAT, State Aid, customs, electricity etc.; because the freedom of the Assembly to try to prevent the application of changes made to EU law applying to Northern Ireland is further constrained by the requirement that the change in product regulation must have a significant and lasting effect, and even then the EU can object, sending the matter to arbitration which might find against the position of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a situation which confirms that the Stormont brake is not a veto, and even if arbitration finds in favour of the position of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the consequences of this are very limited and this highly constrained expression of democracy is subject to retaliatory remedial action by the EU; and because the requirement to subject the existing Westminster brake to an applicability motion from the Assembly can be ignored by His Majesty’s Government”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 213

Contents: 14 Not Contents: 227

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 213 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Democratic Unionist Party 6
Non-affiliated 4
Crossbench 2
Conservative 2

Not Contents

Conservative 128
Labour 36
Crossbench 30
Liberal Democrat 23
Non-affiliated 6
Reform UK 1
Lord Speaker 1
Bishops 1
Green 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.

Tellers: Lord Browne of Belmont (Content), Lord Hay of Ballyore (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (12)

Not Contents (225)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.