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Lords division · 17 May 2023 · No. 1

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Lord Hope of Craighead moved amendment 76, in Schedule 4, page 49, line 10, at end to insert—“8A (1) A Minister of the Crown may not make a statutory instrument containing regulations under sections 13, 14 and 16 unless—(a) a document containing a proposal for those regulations has been laid before each House of Parliament,(b) the document has been referred to a Joint Committee of both Houses, and(c) a period of at least 40 days has elapsed after that referral, not including any period during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or either House is adjourned for more than four days.(2) If the Joint Committee, after considering any regulations laid under this paragraph, finds that—(a) the regulations represent a substantial change to the preceding retained EU law, or(b) the Government have not carried out sufficient public consultation lasting at least six weeks before laying the draft before Parliament,a Minister of the Crown must arrange for the instrument to be debated on the floor of each House and voted on before the period in sub-paragraph (1)(c) elapses.(3) If any amendments to the regulations, whether or not proposed by the Joint Committee, are agreed by both Houses of Parliament the regulations must be made in the form so amended.(4) If one House agrees amendments to the regulations under sub-paragraph (3) the Minister may not make the relevant statutory instrument until the other House has debated and voted on a motion to agree or disagree with those amendments.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 64

Contents: 231 Not Contents: 167

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 64 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 100
Liberal Democrat 62
Crossbench 43
Conservative 12
Non-affiliated 11
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 146
Non-affiliated 13
Crossbench 6
Reform UK 1
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.

Tellers: Lord Hope of Craighead (Content), Lord Patel (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (229)

Not Contents (165)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.