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Lords division · 9 Jul 2025 · No. 2

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Lord True moved amendment 17, after clause 1, to insert the new clause Rights of life peers to sit in the House of Lords. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 18

Contents: 265 Not Contents: 247

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 18 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 240
Non-affiliated 15
Crossbench 5
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Reform UK 1
Lord Speaker 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 144
Liberal Democrat 55
Crossbench 39
Non-affiliated 8
Green 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: The Earl of Courtown (Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (263)

Not Contents (245)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.