Lords division · 30 Mar 2000 · No. 1

Financial Services and Markets Bill

It was moved by the Lord Kingsland, in Clause 293, page 151, line 43, to leave out subsection (2) and insert: (“( ) The arrangements made by the Authority must provide for the investigator to report to the Authority on the result of his investigation and, if he considers a complaint to be well-founded, to make recommendations to the Authority on the steps (if any) which the recognised body should take to remedy the matter complained of. ( ) If the investigator reports to the Authority that a complaint is well-founded, the Authority may direct the recognised body to take specified steps in response to the investigator’s report. ( ) Specified steps may include the payment by the recognised body of a specified sum or specified sums to a specified person or specified persons. ( ) “Independent” means appearing to the Authority to be independent of the recognised body. ( ) “Specified” means specified by the Authority.”); which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 43

Contents: 30 Not Contents: 73

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 43 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 25
Crossbench 3
Non-affiliated 2

Not Contents

Labour 61
Crossbench 6
Non-affiliated 4
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Green Party 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), Lord Northbrook (Content), Lord Carter (Not Content), The Lord McIntosh of Haringey (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (28)

Not Contents (71)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.