Welfare Reform Bill — Report (2nd Day) — 14 Dec 2011 at 17:09
The majority of Lords voted to weaken the government's proposals to penalise underoccupation by those receiving housing benefit.
Iain Duncan Smith's views on this vote as quoted in The Telegraph.
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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.| Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 3 | 0 | 12.5% |
| Con | 1 | 143 (+1 tell) | 65.0% |
| Crossbench | 68 (+1 tell) | 0 | 35.9% |
| DUP | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 153 (+1 tell) | 0 | 62.9% |
| LDem | 14 | 43 (+1 tell) | 61.1% |
| PC | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Total: | 246 | 187 | 55.4% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.