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Lords division · 5 Jan 2026 · No. 1

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Lord Craig of Radley moved amendment 1, in clause 1, page 1, line 7, at end to insert “, subject to subsection (2A).(2A) Sections 2 to 4 of this Act come into force only when the Secretary of State has sought to negotiate an amendment to Article 11 of the Treaty to ensure that the United Kingdom would cease to make payments to the government of Mauritius in the event that the use of the Base for military purposes became impossible.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 8

Contents: 132 Not Contents: 124

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 8 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 100
Crossbench 17
Non-affiliated 10
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 103
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 5

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: Lord Craig of Radley (Content), Lord Houghton of Richmond (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (130)

Not Contents (122)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.