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Lords division · 22 Jan 2024 · No. 1

Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement

Lord Goldsmith moved that this House resolves, in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, that His Majesty’s Government should not ratify the UK-Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership until the protections it provides have been fully implemented, since Parliament is being asked to make a judgement, based on the Agreement, about whether Rwanda is safe. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 43

Contents: 214 Not Contents: 171

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 43 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 102
Liberal Democrat 63
Crossbench 36
Non-affiliated 9
Green Party 2
Conservative 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 145
Non-affiliated 10
Crossbench 7
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1
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 (212)

Not Contents (169)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.