Procedure of the House (Proposal 1) — Motion to Resolve — 8 Nov 2011 at 16:26

Moved By The Chairman of Committees

To move to resolve that the role currently performed by the Leader of the House or Government front bench during oral questions and oral statements be transferred for a trial period to the Lord Speaker, or in her absence the Chairman of Committees or another Deputy Speaker;
That the role thus transferred includes the responsibility to arbitrate between groups within the House, but not any responsibility to arbitrate between individual members by name;
That the trial begin at the start of the 2012-13 session of Parliament, and continue until the start of the summer recess 2012;
That following the completion of the trial, the procedure at question time and during oral statements should revert to its current form, pending a review by the Procedure Committee.

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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
Bishop1 04.2%
Con129 (+2 tell) 459.0%
DUP1 025.0%
Ind Lab1 0100.0%
Lab16 113 (+2 tell)52.2%
LDem28 2958.2%
Other1 025.0%
PC0 1100.0%
UKIP2 0100.0%
UUP2 050.0%
Crossbench50 1935.9%
Total:231 16649.5%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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 Baker of DorkingConaye
Lord Hurd of WestwellConaye
Lord Lamont of LerwickConaye
Lord Marlesford Conaye
Lord Addington LDemno
Lord Avebury LDemno
Lord Christopher Labno
Lord Clarke of HampsteadLabno
Lord Clement-Jones LDemno
Lord Desai Labno
Lord Dholakia LDemno
Lord Dixon Labno
Lord Dykes LDemno
Baroness Falkner of MargravineLDemno
Baroness Farrington of RibbletonLabno
Lord Faulkner of WorcesterLabno
Baroness Garden of FrognalLDemno
Baroness Harris of RichmondLDemno
Baroness Hilton of EggardonLabno
Baroness Hollis of HeighamLabno
Lord Jones Labno
Lord Lester of Herne HillLDemno
Lord Lofthouse of PontefractLabno
Lord Loomba LDemno
Baroness Maddock LDemno
Lord McNally LDemno
Lord Morris of HandsworthLabno
Baroness Nicholson of WinterbourneLDemno
Baroness Northover LDemno
Lord Paul Labno
Lord Phillips of SudburyLDemno
Lord Razzall LDemno
Lord Redesdale LDemno
Lord Rennard LDemno
Lord Rodgers of Quarry BankLDemno
Lord Shutt of GreetlandLDemno
Viscount Simon Labno
Lord Stephen LDemno
Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanLabno
Lord Thomas of GresfordLDemno
Baroness Thomas of WalliswoodLDemno
Lord Tope LDemno
Lord Tordoff LDemno
Lord Wallace of SaltaireLDemno
Lord Wallace of TankernessLDemno
Baroness Wall of New BarnetLabno
Lord West of SpitheadLabno
Lord Willis of KnaresboroughLDemno

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