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Lords division · 2 Dec 2003 · No. 1

Queen's Speech: Humble Address

It was moved by the Lord Strathclyde, as an amendment to the Motion for an Humble Address, at the end of the Address to insert “but regret the decision of Your Majesty’s Government to abandon the search for cross-party consensus on constitutional reform and to launch unilateral proposals for changes to this House that could gravely weaken the House; and call on Your Majesty’s Government to respect the formal undertakings given to this House, to withdraw their current proposals and to undertake meaningful consultation with Parliament and the senior judiciary before proceeding with legislation.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 80

Contents: 188 Not Contents: 108

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 80 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 154
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 3
Bishops 2
Lord Speaker 1

Not Contents

Labour 95
Non-affiliated 7
Crossbench 5
Liberal Democrat 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 Cope of Berkeley (Content), Baroness Seccombe (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Lord Grocott (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (186)

Not Contents (106)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.