Climate Change Bill — Adaptation Sub-Committee — 11 Mar 2008 at 18:01

Lord Greenway was absent

The majority of Lords voted to establish a Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Committee which would have expertise in:

  • climate change science and other branches of environmental science;
  • contingency planning;
  • ecology and biodiversity;
  • economics;
  • flood risk;
  • infrastructure asset management;
  • public health;
  • risk management;
  • international development; and
  • any other significant adaptations required to address the risks identified in the most recent Report on impact of climate change.

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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 (Content)Minority (Not-Content)Turnout
Bishop3 012.0%
Con66 (+1 tell) 032.5%
Ind Lab0 1100.0%
Lab2 126 (+2 tell)59.1%
LDem59 (+1 tell) 075.0%
Other1 128.6%
UUP1 033.3%
Crossbench26 717.6%
Total:158 13540.7%

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

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NamePartyVote
Lord Puttnam Labaye
Lord Whitty Labaye

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