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Lords division · 14 Oct 2025 · No. 1

Business of the House

Baroness Smith of Basildon moved that Standing Order 38(1) (Arrangement of the Order Paper) be dispensed with on Wednesday 22 October and Wednesday 29 October to enable Report stage of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to begin before oral questions on those days. Then Lord True moved, as an amendment to the motion, to leave out from “that” to end and to insert “given no persuasive case has been put for systematically abandoning the usual conventions governing the sitting times of the House, the House should meet at 3pm on Wednesday 22 and Wednesday 29 October and consideration of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill should begin after oral questions on those days; and that the House should continue normally to sit at the customary times, as set out in the Companion to the Standing Orders.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 50

Contents: 211 Not Contents: 261

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 50 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 181
Non-affiliated 13
Crossbench 11
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 149
Liberal Democrat 52
Crossbench 48
Non-affiliated 8
Plaid Cymru 2
Green Party 2

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 (209)

Not Contents (259)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.