Postal Services Bill — Report (1st Day) — 4 May 2011 at 16:43
Lord Lester of Herne Hill was absent
Amendment 2
Moved by Lord Young of Norwood Green
2: Before Clause 2, insert the following new Clause-
"Royal Mail companies to be publicly owned
(1) Each Royal Mail company must at all times be publicly owned.
(2) Accordingly-
(a) any issue or transfer of shares in a company will have no effect if it would cause a Royal Mail company to cease to be publicly owned, and
(b) any issue or transfer of share rights to a person will have no effect if the acquisition by the person of the shares to which the share rights relate would cause a Royal Mail company to cease to be publicly owned."
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 | 126 (+2 tell) | 0 | 57.1% |
Crossbench | 34 | 13 | 24.9% |
Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 141 (+2 tell) | 57.4% |
LDem | 53 | 1 | 55.7% |
UUP | 2 | 0 | 50.0% |
Total: | 215 | 156 | 49.1% |
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 |
Baroness Boothroyd | Crossbench | aye |
The Earl of Clancarty | Crossbench | aye |
Baroness D'Souza | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Elystan-Morgan | Crossbench | aye |
Baroness Grey-Thompson | Crossbench | aye |
The Countess of Mar | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Martin of Springburn | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Patel of Bradford | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Baroness Prashar | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Rees of Ludlow | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
The Earl of Sandwich | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Baroness Stern | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Viscount Waverley | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | Crossbench | aye |
Baroness Young of Hornsey | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | LDem | aye |