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Lords division · 12 Jul 2023 · No. 8

Illegal Migration Bill

Baroness Stroud moved Motion W1, as an amendment to Motion W, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 102B in lieu—102B After Clause 58, insert the following new Clause—“Duty to establish safe and legal routes(1) The Secretary of State must, within three months of the publication of the report required by section 59(1), make regulations specifying additional safe and legal routes.(2) In subsection (1), a “safe and legal route” means a route which allows relevant persons to come to the United Kingdom lawfully from abroad.(3) In subsection (2), a “relevant person” is—(a) a person who, if they were in the United Kingdom, would be a refugee within the meaning of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the Protocol to that Convention,(b) a person who, if they were in the United Kingdom, would be eligible for a grant of humanitarian protection in accordance with the immigration rules, or(c) a person who, if they were in the United Kingdom, could not lawfully be removed from the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 3 or 4 of the Human Rights Convention.””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 52

Contents: 174 Not Contents: 122

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 52 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 81
Liberal Democrat 49
Crossbench 24
Non-affiliated 10
Bishops 4
Conservative 3
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 111
Non-affiliated 7
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: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (172)

Not Contents (120)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.