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Lords division · 24 Feb 2025 · No. 1

Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Category 2B Threshold Conditions) Regulations 2025

Lord Clement-Jones moved, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Regulations, at end to insert “but that this House regrets that the Regulations do not impose duties available under the parent Act on small, high-risk platforms where harmful content, often easily accessible to children, is propagated; calls on the Government to clarify which smaller platforms will no longer be covered by Ofcom’s illegal content code and which measures they will no longer be required to comply with; and calls on the Government to withdraw the Regulations and establish a revised definition of Category 1 services.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 31

Contents: 86 Not Contents: 55

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 31 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 50
Conservative 15
Crossbench 13
Labour 3
Non-affiliated 3
Green Party 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 52
Non-affiliated 2
Democratic Unionist Party 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), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (84)

Not Contents (53)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.