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Lords division · 22 Mar 2005 · No. 1

Higher Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

It was moved by the Lord Glentoran, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Order laid before the House on 8th February be approved, at end to insert “but this House regrets that the Government have not provided the opportunity for the people of Northern Ireland to express their opinion on the matter, either through democratically elected institutions or by means of a referendum”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 18

Contents: 168 Not Contents: 150

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 18 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 95
Liberal Democrat 44
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 5
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Labour 1
Lord Speaker 1
Green Party 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Labour 121
Crossbench 17
Non-affiliated 11
Bishops 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: Baroness Seccombe (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Davies of Oldham (Not Content), Lord Grocott (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (166)

Not Contents (148)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.