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Lords division · 30 Apr 2024 · No. 5

Victims and Prisoners Bill

Baroness Brinton moved amendment 119HA, to leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert—“(1) The amount of a payment under the infected blood compensation scheme is to be determined in accordance with a framework of tariff-based compensation for eligible infected and affected persons, at rates which broadly take account of but are not limited by current practice in courts and tribunals across the UK and sums payable in other UK compensation schemes, and allowing an assessed basis for defined financial losses.(1A) The rates of compensation in the framework under subsection (1) must be based on the advice of the independent clinical and legal panels and set by the Chair, adopting the measures set out in Recommendation 5 of the Infected Blood Inquiry’s Second Interim Report.(1B) The awards which may be claimed under the tariff-based compensation under subsection (1) framework must be as defined at Recommendation 6 of the Infected Blood Inquiry Second Interim Report.(2) In assessing compensation under the scheme, no account should be taken of any past support payments made under other support schemes or their predecessors.”The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 108

Contents: 67 Not Contents: 175

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 108 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 46
Crossbench 9
Non-affiliated 5
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Plaid Cymru 2
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 161
Crossbench 7
Non-affiliated 4
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 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 Humphreys (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), The Earl of Courtown (Not Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (65)

Not Contents (173)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.