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Lords division · 20 Oct 2025 · No. 4

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Baroness Pinnock moved amendment 12, in clause 5, page 10, line 24, at end insert— “(7A) In issuing guidance under this section the Secretary of State must have regard to the need to ensure pre-application consultation is meaningful, including, but not limited to, adherence to the following principles— (a) pre-application consultation should be open and transparent with information and evidence provided in a timely and straightforward fashion to provide affected or interested parties with objective and relevant information to enable them to make an informed response; (b) applicants should demonstrate a responsive approach to queries and challenges raised; (c) applicants should ensure consultation and engagement activities are inclusive and enable affected or interested parties to have a reasonable opportunity to participate; (d) applicants’ interpretation and representation of results should be fair and objective; (e) all pre-application consultation should be undertaken through meaningful engagement with communities and stakeholders, offering genuine opportunities to influence proposals; (f) pre-application engagement should be proportionate, with applicants providing the right level of information to enable positive outcomes to be delivered.” The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 93

Contents: 61 Not Contents: 154

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 93 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 50
Crossbench 7
Conservative 3
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 136
Crossbench 9
Non-affiliated 5
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist 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: Baroness Humphreys (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (59)

Not Contents (152)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.