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Lords division · 25 Apr 2006 · No. 1

Conventions

It was moved by the Lord President (Baroness Amos) that, accepting the primacy of the House of Commons, it is expedient that a Joint Committee of the Lords and Commons be appointed to consider the practicality of codifying the key conventions on the relationship between the two Houses of Parliament which affect the consideration of legislation, in particular: (A) the Salisbury-Addison convention that the Lords does not vote against measures included in the governing party’s Manifesto; (B) conventions on secondary legislation; (C) the convention that Government business in the Lords should be considered in reasonable time; (D) conventions governing the exchange of amendments to legislation between the two Houses; and that the Committee should report by Friday 21st July 2006; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 84

Contents: 179 Not Contents: 95

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 84 votes. The Government's position was Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 115
Liberal Democrat 25
Conservative 17
Crossbench 14
Non-affiliated 6
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 45
Crossbench 33
Liberal Democrat 7
Non-affiliated 5
Labour 3
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 Grocott (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Denham (Not Content), Lord Phillips of Sudbury (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (177)

Not Contents (93)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.