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Lords division · 24 Mar 2025 · No. 2

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

Lord Londesborough moved Motion H1, as an amendment to Motion H, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 8B in lieu—8B  Clause 2, page 1, line 15, at end to insert—“(3A) The Treasury may by regulations made by statutory instrument specify that businesses or organisations with fewer than 25 full-time employees are exempted from the changes to secondary Class 1 thresholds made by this section.(3B) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 111

Contents: 276 Not Contents: 165

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 111 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 172
Liberal Democrat 54
Crossbench 30
Non-affiliated 9
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Green Party 2
Plaid Cymru 1
Bishops 1
Lord Speaker 1
Reform UK 1

Not Contents

Labour 148
Crossbench 13
Non-affiliated 4

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 Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Londesborough (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (274)

Not Contents (163)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.