Lords division · 19 May 2025 · No. 1

Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

Baroness Kidron moved Motion C1, as an amendment to Motion C, at end to insert “, and do propose Amendment 49D in lieu of Amendment 49B—49D Before Clause 138, insert the following new Clause—“Requirement to make provision in relation to transparency of copyrighted works used in relation to AI models(1) The Secretary of State or the Treasury must by regulations make provision as set out in this section in relation to a trader which operates a service which—(a) includes the making available of an artificial intelligence (AI) model, and(b) has links with the United Kingdom within the meaning of subsection (2).(2) The service has links with the United Kingdom if—(a) it has a significant number of United Kingdom users, or(b) United Kingdom users form one of the target markets for the service (or the only target market).(3) The regulations must require relevant traders to provide copyright owners with clear, relevant, accurate and accessible information that will allow them to identify—(a) the use of their copyright works used, and(b) the means by which those works were accessed,in the pre-training, training, fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation of the AI model, or any other data input to the AI model.(4) The regulations may provide that the regulations apply in modified form in order that they apply proportionately to small companies and micro-entities within the meaning of the Companies Act 2006, or apply differently to UK-registered companies within the meaning of the Companies Act 2006 as opposed to companies which are not UK-registered.(5) Regulations made under this section may make provision for enforcement of their provisions.(6) The Secretary of State or the Treasury must lay before Parliament a draft of the statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section within six months of the publication of the report on the use of copyright works in the development of AI systems required by section (Report on the use of copyright works in the development of AI systems), and the regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure.””The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 171

Contents: 289 Not Contents: 118

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 171 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative	118
Crossbench	67
Liberal Democrat	57
Labour	18
Non-affiliated	16
Democratic Unionist Party	4
Ulster Unionist Party	3
Plaid Cymru	2
Green Party	2
Bishops	1
Lord Speaker	1

Not Contents

Labour	111
Non-affiliated	6
Crossbench	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: Viscount Colville of Culross (Content), Baroness Kidron (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).