Lords division · 27 Apr 2026 · No. 2

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

Baroness Scott of Bybrook moved Motion B1, as an amendment to Motion B, to leave out from “House” to the end and insert “do insist on its Amendments 89B and 89C to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reasons 89D and 89E.”  The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 72

Contents: 217 Not Contents: 145

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 72 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 155
Liberal Democrat 44
Crossbench 9
Non-affiliated 5
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Green Party 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 139
Non-affiliated 3
Crossbench 3

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 (215)

Not Contents (143)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.