Civil Partnership Bill — Commons Amendment — 17 Nov 2004 at 17:43

Baroness Rendell of Babergh voted with the majority (Not-Content).

1 Clause 1, page 1, line 4, leave out from "relationship" to "between" in line 5

rose to move, as an amendment to the Motion that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 1, at end insert "and do propose Amendments Nos. 1A and 1B in lieu of the words so left out of the Bill":

1A Clause 253, page 125, line 29, at end insert-

"(10) No order may be made under this section until the Secretary of State has established a voluntary registration scheme, or schemes, whereby two persons can register their relationship where they-

(a) are within the specified degrees of family relationship,

(b) are both aged over thirty years,

(c) have lived together as co-dependents for a continuous period of twelve years immediately prior to the date of registration.

(11) The scheme or schemes referred to in subsection (10) above shall entitle two people who have registered their relationship to be treated no less favourably than two people who are civil partners of each other in respect of the following-

(a) inheritance tax,

(b) capital gains tax,

(c) housing and tenancies,

(d) fatal accident claims.

(12) Schedule (Specified degrees of family relationship) contains provisions for determining when two people are within the specified degrees of family relationship for the purposes of this section."

1B After Schedule 29, insert the following new schedule-

:TITLE3:SCHEDULE

:TITLE3:Specified degrees of family relationship

(1) Two people are within the specified degrees of family relationship if one falls within the list below in relation to the other.

Adoptive child

Adoptive parent

Child

Former adoptive child

Former adoptive parent

Parent

Sibling

(2) In the list "sibling" means a brother, sister, half-brother or half-sister."

On Question, Whether the said amendment shall be agreed to?

Their Lordships divided: Contents, 136; Not-Contents, 251.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source |

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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.

PartyMajority (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Bishop8 238.5%
Con10 96 (+1 tell)51.0%
Crossbench30 32 (+1 tell)35.6%
Green1 0100.0%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Lab136 (+2 tell) 067.3%
LDem58 084.1%
Total:243 13154.9%

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

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NamePartyVote
The Bishop of ChesterBishopaye
The Bishop of Southwell and NottinghamBishopaye
Viscount Astor Con (front bench)no
Lord Bowness Con (front bench)no
Baroness Buscombe Con (front bench)no
Lord Crickhowell Conno
Baroness Flather Con (front bench)no
Lord Gilmour of CraigmillarConno
Lord Inglewood Conno
Lord Lucas Conno
Baroness Noakes Con (front bench)no
Lord Norton of LouthCon (front bench)no
Lord St John of FawsleyConno
Lord Adebowale Crossbenchno
Viscount Allenby of MegiddoCrossbenchno
Lord Best Crossbench (front bench)no
Viscount Bledisloe Crossbenchno
Lord Cameron of DillingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Cobbold Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Condon Crossbenchno
Baroness D'Souza Crossbenchno
Baroness Darcy de Knayth Crossbenchno
Baroness Finlay of LlandaffCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Freyberg Crossbenchno
Baroness Greengross Crossbenchno
Lord Habgood Crossbenchno
Baroness Howarth of BrecklandCrossbenchno
Baroness Howe of IdlicoteCrossbenchno
Lord Joffe Crossbenchno
Lord Kerr of KinlochardCrossbenchno
Lord Laming Crossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of ListowelCrossbenchno
Lord Marsh Crossbenchno
Baroness Murphy Crossbench (front bench)no
Baroness O'Neill of BengarveCrossbenchno
Lord Ouseley Crossbenchno
Lord Patel Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Robertson of Port EllenCrossbenchno
Lord Roll of IpsdenCrossbenchno
The Earl of SandwichCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Slynn of HadleyCrossbenchno
Baroness Stern Crossbenchno
Baroness Warnock Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Wright of RichmondCrossbench (front bench)no

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