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Lords division · 5 Jan 2026 · No. 5

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Lord Purvis of Tweed moved amendment 50, after clause 5, to insert the new clause Parliamentary oversight and approval of expenditure. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 4

Contents: 131 Not Contents: 127

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 4 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 79
Liberal Democrat 41
Non-affiliated 4
Crossbench 3
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 118
Crossbench 4
Non-affiliated 3
Green Party 1
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: Lord Stoneham of Droxford (Content), Baroness Thornhill (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (129)

Not Contents (125)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.