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Lords division · 21 Dec 2004 · No. 1

Administration and Works Committee

It was moved by the Lord Stoddart of Swindon, as an amendment to the motion that the First Report from the Select Committee be agreed to, to leave out “agreed to” and insert “referred back to the Committee for further consideration, including: (a) consultation with Members of the House, staff of the House and others concerned with smokers’ rights, including the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco; (b) consideration of the rights of smokers in any future plans for the Writing Room and the possible partition of the present Writing Room on a temporary basis; and (c) consideration of a possible reorganisation of the Bishops’ Bar so that smoking could be permitted in one of the two rooms.”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 75

Contents: 41 Not Contents: 116

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 75 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 19
Crossbench 13
Non-affiliated 3
Labour 2
Liberal Democrat 2
Independent Socialist 1
Independent Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 62
Liberal Democrat 19
Crossbench 15
Conservative 13
Non-affiliated 6
Independent Ulster Unionist 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 Harris of High Cross (Content), Lord Monson (Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Not Content), Baroness Harris of Richmond (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (39)

Not Contents (114)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.