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Lords division · 24 Jul 2002 · No. 5

Procedure of the House: Select Committee Report

It was moved by the Lord Elton, in page 6, line 46, at end to insert: “except those bills originating in the House of Commons in which one or more clauses have not been considered in committee in that House. Preventing divisions on amendments to such clauses in committee removes a necessary means of establishing and refining the views of this House on matters of substance, and leads to extended debate on Report stage. The debate on Report is conducted under rules of procedure unsuited to the search for an accommodation of conflicting views which should precede the resort to a division. In practice the result is numerous and sometimes tortuous exchanges ‘before the minister sits down’. If the result is a misunderstanding, divisions may be called unnecessarily; if in doubt, they may be further deferred for consultation, adding to the number of divisions on third reading. Accordingly, we recommend that when a bill that has been sent to this House by the House of Commons has been considered by a Grand Committee, any clauses that have not been discussed in a committee of the Commons should be recommitted to a Committee of the Whole House of this House.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 37

Contents: 61 Not Contents: 98

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 37 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 52
Crossbench 4
Liberal Democrat 2
Non-affiliated 2
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 79
Liberal Democrat 10
Non-affiliated 5
Crossbench 4

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 Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (Content), Lord Elton (Content), Lord Graham of Edmonton (Not Content), Lord Addington (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (59)

Not Contents (96)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.