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Lords division · 2 Dec 2003 · No. 2

Queen's Speech: Humble Address

It was moved by the Baroness Williams of Crosby, 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 propose changes to the House of Lords which repudiate their previous commitment to create a more democratic and more representative House; and call on Your Majesty’s Government to introduce legislation which, while ending hereditary membership of the House, will ensure a majority of Members of the House are democratically elected.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 105

Contents: 36 Not Contents: 141

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 105 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Liberal Democrat 24
Conservative 7
Crossbench 3
Non-affiliated 2

Not Contents

Labour 95
Conservative 25
Crossbench 14
Non-affiliated 6
Lord Speaker 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 Roper (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Lord Grocott (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (34)

Not Contents (139)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.