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Lords division · 5 Jan 2026 · No. 4

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Lord Callanan moved amendment 47, after clause 5, to insert the new clause Cost of the Treaty. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 64

Contents: 194 Not Contents: 130

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 64 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 136
Liberal Democrat 37
Crossbench 8
Non-affiliated 6
Democratic Unionist Party 4
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 118
Crossbench 7
Non-affiliated 3
Bishops 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: The Earl of Courtown (Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (192)

Not Contents (128)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.