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Lords division · 6 Jun 2023 · No. 1

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Lord Krebs moved Motion C1, as an amendment to Motion C, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 15B in lieu—15B After Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—“Environmental protection(1) Regulations may not be made by a relevant national authority under section 12, 13, 15 or 16 unless the relevant national authority is satisfied that the regulations do not—(a) reduce the level of environmental protection arising from the retained EU law to which the provision relates;(b) conflict with any relevant international environmental agreements to which the United Kingdom is party.(2) Prior to making any provision to which this section applies, the relevant national authority must—(a) seek advice from persons who are independent of the authority and have relevant expertise, and(b) publish a report setting out—(i) how the provision does not reduce the level of environmental protection in accordance with subsection (1), and(ii) how the authority has taken into account the advice from the persons referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection.(3) In this section “relevant international environmental agreements” includes but is not limited to—(a) the UNECE Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters (Aarhus, 25 June 1998);(b) the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern, 1979);(c) the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio, 1992);(d) the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn, 1979);(e) the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR, 1992);(f) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar, 1971).””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 54

Contents: 244 Not Contents: 190

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 54 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 115
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 53
Non-affiliated 10
Conservative 4
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 163
Non-affiliated 11
Crossbench 9
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Reform UK 1
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: Lord Krebs (Content), Baroness Wheeler (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (242)

Not Contents (188)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.