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Lords division · 5 Mar 2026 · No. 5

National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill

Baroness Neville-Rolfe moved amendment 16, in clause 1, page 2, line 27, at end insert— “(5) The amendments made by this section do not apply where the employer— (a) is a small or medium-sized enterprise, or (b) is a charity or social enterprise which meets the conditions in subsection (6). (6) The conditions are that— (a) the employer meets the definition of a small or medium-sized enterprise in section 465 of the Companies Act 2006 (companies qualifying as medium-sized: general), and (b) the employment is carried out wholly or mainly for the purposes of that charity or social enterprise. (7) In this section— “charity” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Charities Act 2011; “social enterprise” means an undertaking which— (a) has as its primary purpose the achievement of social or environmental objectives, and (b) principally reinvests its profits for those purposes; “small or medium-sized enterprise” has the meaning given by section 465 of the Companies Act 2006.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 50

Contents: 193 Not Contents: 143

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 50 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 126
Liberal Democrat 43
Crossbench 15
Non-affiliated 7
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 138
Non-affiliated 4
Crossbench 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 (191)

Not Contents (141)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.