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Lords division · 5 Jan 2026 · No. 3

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee moved amendment 32, after clause 1, to insert the new clause Referendum. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 10

Contents: 168 Not Contents: 178

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 10 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 147
Crossbench 7
Non-affiliated 6
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Labour 121
Liberal Democrat 43
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 2
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: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Content), Baroness Hoey (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (166)

Not Contents (176)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.