Health and Care Bill — Report (4th Day) — Amendment 170 — 16 Mar 2022 at 20:00

Moved by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

170: After Clause 164, insert the following new Clause-“Assisted dying(1) The Secretary of State must, within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, lay before Parliament a draft Bill to permit terminally ill, mentally competent adults legally to end their own lives with medical assistance.(2) In preparing the draft Bill and any accompanying documents and in making arrangements to lay them before Parliament, the Secretary of State must take account of the need-(a) to respect that this is a matter of conscience, and(b) to enable Parliament to consider the issue.”

Ayes 145, Noes 179.

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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
Bishop4 016.7%
Con102 2647.8%
Crossbench21 2626.3%
DUP4 080.0%
Green0 2100.0%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Judge0 19.1%
Lab23 5041.5%
LDem18 3360.7%
Non-affiliated6 519.3%
PC0 1100.0%
UUP1 050.0%
Total:179 14540.0%

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

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NamePartyVote
The Earl of ArranConaye
Lord Baker of DorkingConaye
Lord Balfe Conaye
Lord Bethell Conaye
Baroness Davidson of Lundin LinksConaye
Lord Dobbs Conaye
Lord Duncan of SpringbankCon (front bench)aye
Lord Fairfax of CameronConaye
Lord Finkelstein Conaye
Lord Forsyth of DrumleanConaye
Baroness Foster of OxtonConaye
Lord Goodlad Conaye
Lord King of BridgwaterCon (front bench)aye
Lord Lexden Con (front bench)aye
Lord Livingston of ParkheadCon (front bench)aye
Lord Lucas Con (front bench)aye
Lord Mancroft Con (front bench)aye
Baroness Meyer Conaye
Lord Moynihan Conaye
Baroness Noakes Con (front bench)aye
Lord Sassoon Conaye
Baroness Shackleton of BelgraviaCon (front bench)aye
Lord Sherbourne of DidsburyCon (front bench)aye
Lord Vinson Conaye
Lord Willetts Conaye
Lord Young of CookhamCon (front bench)aye
Lord Alton of LiverpoolCrossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Butler-Sloss Crossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Campbell of SurbitonCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Carrington Crossbenchno
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbenchno
Lord Crisp Crossbenchno
Lord Curry of KirkharleCrossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Finlay of LlandaffCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Green of DeddingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Baroness Grey-Thompson Crossbenchno
Lord Harries of PentregarthCrossbenchno
Lord Hastings of ScarisbrickCrossbenchno
Baroness Hollins Crossbenchno
Lord Kilclooney Crossbenchno
Baroness Masham of IltonCrossbenchno
Baroness O'Loan Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Ravensdale Crossbenchno
Lord Russell of LiverpoolCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Sentamu Crossbenchno
Lord Stirrup Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Anderson of SwanseaLab (minister)no
Lord Bach Lab (minister)no
Baroness Blower Lab (minister)no
Baroness Bryan of PartickLab (minister)no
Lord Davies of BrixtonLab (minister)no
Baroness Gale Lab (minister)no
Lord Grantchester Lab (minister)no
Lord Grocott Lab (minister)no
Lord Hacking Labno
Lord Howarth of NewportLab (minister)no
Lord Hunt of Kings HeathLab (minister)no
Baroness Liddell of CoatdykeLab (minister)no
Lord McAvoy Labno
Lord Morgan Labno
Lord Murphy of TorfaenLab (minister)no
Baroness Osamor Labno
Lord Pendry Labno
Lord Rooker Lab (minister)no
Lord Sikka Labno
Lord Touhig Lab (minister)no
Lord Tunnicliffe Lab (minister)no
Lord Turnberg Labno
Lord Watson of InvergowrieLab (minister)no
Lord Beith LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Benjamin LDem (front bench)no
Lord Burnett LDemno
Lord Clement-Jones LDem (front bench)no
Lord Foster of BathLDem (front bench)no
Lord German LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Humphreys LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Janke LDem (front bench)no
Lord Jones of CheltenhamLDemno
Lord Oates LDem (front bench)no
Lord Paddick LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Pinnock LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Sheehan LDem (front bench)no
Lord Shipley LDem (front bench)no
Baroness Smith of NewnhamLDem (front bench)no
Lord Strasburger LDem (front bench)no
Lord Stunell LDem (front bench)no
Lord Thomas of GresfordLDem (front bench)no
Lord Cashman Non-affiliatedaye
Lord Cooper of WindrushNon-affiliatedaye
Lord Desai Non-affiliatedaye
Lord Fowler Non-affiliatedaye
Lord Mann Non-affiliatedaye

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