Child Poverty Bill — Report — 9 Mar 2010 at 16:10
Lord Berkeley was absent
Amendment 1 had been retabled as Amendment 1A.
Amendment 1A
Moved by Lord Freud
1A: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause-
"2010 poverty target
(1) The Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the 2010 target year and in any event not later than 30 June 2012, lay before Parliament a report on whether the 2010 target has been met.
(2) The 2010 target is that in the financial year beginning with 1 April 2010, 1.7 million children or fewer live in qualifying households in the UK that fell within the relative low income group as defined by section 2(2).
(3) The report must be based on statistics that the Statistics Board has designated under section 12 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (assessment) as national statistics.
(4) Whether the target has been met in relation to the 2010 target year is to be determined by reference to the statistics.
(5) If the target has not been met, the report must explain why it has not been met.
(6) "The 2010 target year" is the financial year beginning with 1 April 2010."
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 |
Bishop | 0 | 3 | 12.5% |
Con | 0 | 1 | 0.5% |
Crossbench | 17 | 34 | 27.4% |
Lab | 117 (+2 tell) | 0 | 55.1% |
LDem | 0 | 49 (+2 tell) | 68.0% |
UUP | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
Total: | 135 | 87 | 32.5% |
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
Name | Party | Vote |
Lord Bew | Crossbench | no |
Lord Broers | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Viscount Craigavon | Crossbench | no |
Lord Crisp | Crossbench | no |
Baroness D'Souza | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Elystan-Morgan | Crossbench | no |
Lord Hameed | Crossbench | no |
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Kilclooney | Crossbench | no |
Lord Mawson | Crossbench | no |
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Ouseley | Crossbench | no |
Lord Oxburgh | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Patel of Bradford | Crossbench | no |
Lord Powell of Bayswater | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Tanlaw | Crossbench | no |
Lord Williamson of Horton | Crossbench | no |