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Lords division · 12 Jul 2023 · No. 4

Illegal Migration Bill

Lord Etherton moved Motion G1, as an amendment to Motion G, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 23B in lieu—23B After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—“Restrictions on removal destinations: LGBT and other persons(1) Where the Secretary of State is required by section 2(1) to make arrangements for the removal of a person from the United Kingdom—(a) trans men and women must not be removed to Brazil;(b) LGBT persons must not be removed to Gambia, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda or Sierra Leone;(c) no person may be removed to a territory or country listed in Schedule 1 (countries or territories to which a person may be removed) if the exceptional circumstances specified in section 5(5)(b) apply to that territory or country;(d) no person may be removed to Rwanda until the conclusion of all litigation concerning the lawfulness of arrangements for removal to that country.(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend subsection (1) to—(a) add or remove a country or territory, or part of a country or territory, in order to apply relevant decisions of courts and tribunals operating in the United Kingdom and having regard to decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and any other material change of circumstances;(b) reflect changes made to Schedule 1 by regulations made under section 6.””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 66

Contents: 209 Not Contents: 143

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 66 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 106
Liberal Democrat 57
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 5
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 130
Non-affiliated 9
Crossbench 3
Reform UK 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 Kennedy of Southwark (Content), Baroness Wheeler (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (207)

Not Contents (141)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.