Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Strong evidence required to use admix embryos — 4 Feb 2008 at 17:30

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

The majority of the House of Lords voted against putting in a precise statement what it would mean for a proposed use of embryos or human admixed embryos "to be necessary for the purposes of the research".[1]

The statement would have read:[2]

  • No licence under this paragraph is to be granted unless... there is cogent evidence, which must include published, peer-reviewed scientific data, that the research proposed on human or human admixed embryos is likely to achieve its specified purposes, and it is not reasonably practicable to achieve the specified purposes of the research without using human embryos or human admixed embryos.

When this debate was concluded, the Bill was sent to the House of Commons.[3]

Debate in Parliament | 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
Bishop0 28.0%
Con15 19 (+1 tell)17.0%
Crossbench28 7 (+1 tell)19.0%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Lab119 (+2 tell) 557.0%
LDem28 440.0%
UUP1 0100.0%
Total:191 3832.2%

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
Earl Attlee Conno
Lord Blackwell Con (front bench)no
Lord Bowness Con (front bench)no
Baroness Carnegy of LourConno
Lord Colwyn Con (front bench)no
Lord Dixon-Smith Con (front bench)no
Baroness Flather Con (front bench)no
Lord Garel-Jones Conno
Lord Hunt of WirralCon (front bench)no
Lord Jenkin of RodingConno
Lord Jopling Con (front bench)no
Lord Lawson of BlabyCon (front bench)no
Baroness Noakes Con (front bench)no
Lord Taylor of HolbeachCon (front bench)no
Viscount Ullswater Con (front bench)no
Lord Waldegrave of North HillConno
Lord Alton of LiverpoolCrossbenchaye
Viscount Brookeborough Crossbenchaye
Baroness Cox Crossbenchaye
Baroness Emerton Crossbenchaye
Lord Hylton Crossbenchaye
Lord Neill of BladenCrossbenchtellaye
Lady Saltoun of AbernethyCrossbench (front bench)aye
Viscount Tenby Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Ahmed Labaye
Lord Clarke of HampsteadLabaye
Lord Dixon Labaye
Lord Gordon of StrathblaneLabaye
Lord Pendry Labaye
Lord Cotter LDem (front bench)aye
Lord Fearn LDemaye
Lord Roberts of LlandudnoLDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Williams of CrosbyLDemaye
Lord Maginnis of DrumglassUUPaye

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