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Lords division · 26 Apr 2023 · No. 1

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

Lord Fox moved amendment 1, in the Schedule, page 3, line 31, at end to insert—“(5) The powers conferred by this section must not be exercised unless a consultation on the potential impact of their use has been carried out, published, and reviewed by a committee of each House of Parliament whose remit includes either the wider UK workforce and industrial relations, or the sector to which the regulations in question relate.(6) Such consultations must—(a) be carried out by the Secretary of State and involve representatives of any relevant unions, employers and other interested parties,(b) include an assessment of the potential impact of the minimum service regulations on the rights of workers to strike, the effectiveness of the relevant services, and the impact on the wider public,(c) consider services in all categories listed in subsection (4), and(d) include reference to respective service levels outside of strike action.(7) The results of the consultation and the reviews by committees must be published in a report, and the Secretary of State must lay a copy of the report before Parliament.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 24

Contents: 221 Not Contents: 197

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 24 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 107
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 42
Non-affiliated 7
Bishops 3
Green Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 164
Crossbench 15
Non-affiliated 13
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Lord Speaker 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.

Tellers: Baroness Wheeler (Content), Lord Fox (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (219)

Not Contents (195)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.