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Lords division · 6 Feb 2024 · No. 2

Electoral Commission Strategy and Policy Statement

Lord Khan of Burnley moved, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Electoral Commission Strategy and Policy Statement, at end to insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Strategy and Policy Statement has been laid, despite significant concerns raised by the Speaker’s Committee, the Electoral Commission, and the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee, during the statutory consultation process, and the finding by the Speaker’s Committee that the statement as drafted is “not fit for purpose and inconsistent with the Commission’s role as an independent regulator””. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 16

Contents: 175 Not Contents: 159

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 16 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 92
Liberal Democrat 55
Crossbench 19
Non-affiliated 8
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 145
Non-affiliated 7
Crossbench 3
Democratic Unionist Party 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 (173)

Not Contents (157)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.