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Lords division · 4 Feb 2003 · No. 1

House of Lords Reform

It was moved by the Lord Privy Seal (Lord Williams of Mostyn) that this House approves Option 1 (fully appointed) in the Report from the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 225

Contents: 335 Not Contents: 110

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 225 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 118
Crossbench 91
Labour 88
Liberal Democrat 15
Non-affiliated 15
Bishops 6
Green Party 1
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 39
Liberal Democrat 34
Conservative 19
Crossbench 11
Non-affiliated 5
Conservative Independent 1
Independent Labour 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 Norton of Louth (Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Content), Lord Graham of Edmonton (Not Content), Lord Roper (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (333)

Not Contents (108)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.