Hunting with dogs: Hunting under Licence — 19 Mar 2002 at 18:32
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 licensing scheme - in accordance with provision similar to Schedule 2 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 ban. The House of Commons had held its own "indicative" votes the previous day.
Their Lordships divided: Contents 366; Not-Contents, 59.
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 (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
Bishop | 6 | 0 | 22.2% |
Con | 168 | 1 | 74.1% |
Crossbench | 82 | 1 | 47.4% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 66 (+2 tell) | 48 (+1 tell) | 58.8% |
LDem | 37 | 6 (+1 tell) | 66.7% |
UUP | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Total: | 361 | 56 | 60.3% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by name
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.