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Lords division · 17 Nov 2025 · No. 2

Employment Rights Bill

Lord Sharpe of Epsom moved Motion B1, as an amendment to Motion B, to leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 23 and 106 to 120, and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments 120C, 120D and 120E.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 159

Contents: 309 Not Contents: 150

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 159 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 198
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 34
Non-affiliated 13
Ulster Unionist Party 3
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 132
Non-affiliated 7
Crossbench 6
Plaid Cymru 2
Green Party 2
Bishops 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 (307)

Not Contents (148)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.