Climate Change Bill — Five yearl account — 25 Feb 2008 at 19:12
The majority of Lords voted against changing the period for budgeting the carbon account from five years to one year.
The five year window is outlined in Clause 4,[1] and the annual targets would have been set for six years ahead for every calender year till 2044.[2]
- [1] Climate Change Bill, Clause 4, Carbon Budgeting.
- [2] Lord Taylor of Holbech, House of Lords, 25 February 2008.
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 |
| Con | 3 | 71 (+1 tell) | 36.2% |
| Ind Lab | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 123 (+2 tell) | 0 | 56.8% |
| LDem | 0 | 39 (+1 tell) | 50.0% |
| Other | 2 | 0 | 28.6% |
| UKIP | 0 | 1 | 50.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Crossbench | 12 | 9 | 11.2% |
| Total: | 141 | 121 | 37.6% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.