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Lords division · 31 Jan 2006 · No. 1

Speakership of the House

It was moved by the Baroness Gould of Potternewton, as an amendment to the Lord President’s motion, after approved” to insert except that the Leader’s role at Question Time should be transferred to the Lord Speaker”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 44

Contents: 132 Not Contents: 176

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 44 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

Labour 108
Crossbench 8
Conservative 6
Non-affiliated 6
Liberal Democrat 4

Not Contents

Conservative 87
Crossbench 38
Liberal Democrat 29
Labour 16
Non-affiliated 4
Independent Labour 1
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 Desai (Content), Lord Carter (Content), Lord Trefgarne (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (130)

Not Contents (174)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.