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Lords division · 5 Jan 2026 · No. 2

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Lord Purvis of Tweed moved amendment 19, in clause 1, page 1, line 7, after the words last inserted to insert “, subject to subsection (2A).(2A) Sections 2 to 4 of this Act come into force only when the conditions in section (Referendum (No. 2)) have been met.”The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 79

Contents: 210 Not Contents: 131

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 79 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 146
Liberal Democrat 42
Crossbench 8
Non-affiliated 6
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Bishops 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 120
Crossbench 9
Non-affiliated 1
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: Lord Addington (Content), Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (208)

Not Contents (129)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.