Procedure of the House — Motion to Resolve — 24 Apr 2013 at 17:37
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard voted in the minority (Content).
Moved by The Chairman of Committees
To resolve that this House establish, for the duration of the 2013-14 Session of Parliament, a Backbench Debates Committee;
That the Committee be appointed to schedule debates, to be moved by backbench and Crossbench members, or by Lords Spiritual:
During the time currently set aside for balloted debates;
On at least one day in Grand Committee for every six sitting weeks in the session;
That the Committee schedule a one-hour topical Question for Short Debate each week, from the start of the session until the end of January, to be taken on Thursday between the two time-limited debates;
That the Procedure Committee review and report on the work of the Backbench Debates Committee before the end of the 2013-14 session, with a view to recommending whether or not the Backbench Debates Committee should be established as a sessional select committee.
Division on Motion to resolve.
Contents 209; Not-Contents 243. [See col. 1469 for explanation of mistake in voting figures].
Motion disagreed.
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 | 2 | 8.0% |
Con | 156 (+1 tell) | 21 | 81.7% |
Crossbench | 31 | 28 (+1 tell) | 31.1% |
DUP | 1 | 0 | 25.0% |
Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
Judge | 2 | 1 | 21.4% |
Lab | 4 | 121 (+1 tell) | 55.8% |
LDem | 37 (+1 tell) | 28 | 71.0% |
Non-affiliated | 0 | 1 | 3.6% |
PC | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
UUP | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
Total: | 234 | 203 | 54.6% |
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