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Lords division · 11 Sep 2024 · No. 3

Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024

Lord Palmer of Childs Hill moved that this House regrets that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/869), laid before the House on 22 August, will remove support from many of the poorest pensioners at the same time as the energy price cap is being lifted; and calls on the Government (1) to take steps to identify those who are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it so that they can receive both benefits; (2) to support vulnerable pensioners this winter; and (3) to take action to end fuel poverty, including with an emergency home insulation programme and a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 67

Contents: 65 Not Contents: 132

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 67 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 43
Crossbench 9
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Non-affiliated 3
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Bishops 2
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Labour 119
Crossbench 8
Non-affiliated 4
Conservative 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 Harris of Richmond (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (63)

Not Contents (130)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.