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Lords division · 31 Mar 2025 · No. 3

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Baroness Berridge moved amendment 34, as an amendment to amendment 33, to leave out sub-paragraph (3) and insert—“(3) Where sub-paragraph (2) does not apply, the approved mental health professional must appoint as a nominated person—(a) a guardian who has been appointed for the relevant patient,(b) a person who is named in a child arrangements order, as defined by section 8 of the Children Act 1989, as a person with whom the relevant patient is to live, or(c) a person who has parental responsibility for the relevant patient.(3A) In this paragraph “guardian” includes a special guardian within the meaning of the Children Act 1989 but does not include a guardian under section 7 of that Act.(3B) Where there is more than one person identified as a potential nominated person in sub-paragraph (3)(a), (b) or(c) then the approved mental health professional must in deciding who to appoint—(a) take into account the relevant patient’s past and present wishes and feelings so far as reasonably ascertainable, or(b) where it has not been possible to ascertain the relevant patient’s past and present wishes, preference must be given to the eldest person.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 75

Contents: 218 Not Contents: 143

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 75 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 141
Liberal Democrat 50
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 7
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Reform UK 1
Lord Speaker 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Labour 135
Non-affiliated 5
Crossbench 3

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: The Earl of Courtown (Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Moraes (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (216)

Not Contents (141)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.