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Lords division · 12 May 2025 · No. 2

Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

Viscount Colville of Culross moved Amendment 43A, as an amendment to the motion that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 43, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 43B instead of the words so left out of the Bill—43B Clause 67, page 75, line 28, at end insert—“2A. For the purposes of paragraph 2, “scientific research” means creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humankind, culture and society, and to devise new applications of available knowledge.2B. To meet the reasonableness test in paragraph 2, the activity being described as scientific research must be conducted according to appropriate ethical, legal and professional frameworks, obligations and standards.””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 121

Contents: 289 Not Contents: 168

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 121 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 173
Liberal Democrat 61
Crossbench 34
Non-affiliated 12
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Green Party 2
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Reform UK 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 141
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 8
Plaid Cymru 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 Williams of Trafford (Content), Viscount Colville of Culross (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (287)

Not Contents (166)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.