Hunting with dogs: Ban — 19 Mar 2002 at 18:04
Lord Avebury was absent
a free "indicative" vote to guide the Government on how to deal with the issue of hunting with dogs. Those voting "content" in this division were supporting a ban on hunting with dogs - in accordance with provision similar to Schedule 3 to the Hunting Bill as introduced in the Commons in Session 2000–01 [Bill 2].
Other votes covered the options of self-regulation of hunting and a licensing scheme. The House of Commons had held its own "indicative" votes the previous day.
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 74; Not-Contents, 331.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
Bishop | 6 | 0 | 22.2% |
Con | 169 (+1 tell) | 1 | 75.0% |
Crossbench | 75 | 3 | 44.6% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 44 (+1 tell) | 60 (+1 tell) | 53.3% |
LDem | 31 | 7 (+1 tell) | 59.1% |
UUP | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Total: | 328 | 71 | 57.7% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division