Children and Families Bill — Report (1st Day) — 9 Dec 2013 at 17:30
Amendment 1
Moved by Lord Nash
1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause-
“Contact between prescribed persons and adopted person’s relatives
(1) In section 98 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (pre-commencement adoptions: information), after subsection (1) insert-
“(1A) Regulations under section 9 may make provision for the purpose of facilitating contact between persons with a prescribed relationship to a person adopted before the appointed day and that person’s relatives.”
(2) In each of subsections (2) and (3) of that section, for “that purpose” substitute “a purpose within subsection (1) or (1A)”.
(3) In subsection (7) of that section, after the definition of “appointed day” insert-
““prescribed” means prescribed by regulations under section 9;”.”
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 | 1 | 4.5% |
| Con | 149 (+1 tell) | 0 | 65.2% |
| Crossbench | 10 | 48 (+1 tell) | 30.9% |
| DUP | 0 | 1 | 25.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 0 | 4 | 26.7% |
| Lab | 0 | 147 (+1 tell) | 65.2% |
| LDem | 70 (+1 tell) | 0 | 68.9% |
| UKIP | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
| UUP | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 231 | 203 | 54.9% |
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Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.