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Lords division · 10 May 2023 · No. 1

Illegal Migration Bill amendment to second reading

Lord Paddick moved, as an amendment to the motion that the bill be now read a second time, to leave out from “that” to the end and insert?“the House declines to give the bill a second reading because it(1) undermines the rule of law by failing to meet the United Kingdom’s international law commitments and by allowing Ministers to ignore the directions of judges;(2) undermines the UK’s tradition of providing sanctuary to refugees by removing the ability of refugees to exercise their legal right to claim asylum, by removing protections afforded to modern slavery victims and by increasing the number of people in indefinite detention, including children;(3) fails to provide safe and legal routes for refugees;(4) fails to include measures to eliminate the backlog of asylum cases; and(5) fails to include measures to tackle people smuggling gangs.”The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 103

Contents: 76 Not Contents: 179

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 103 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 63
Labour 7
Non-affiliated 3
Green Party 2
Crossbench 1

Not Contents

Conservative 158
Crossbench 10
Non-affiliated 8
Lord Speaker 1
Reform UK 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 Humphreys (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (74)

Not Contents (177)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.