Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill — Report (2nd Day) — Amendment 42 — 6 Mar 2024 at 19:01

Moved by Baroness Butler-Sloss

42: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause-“Removal of victims of modern slavery and human trafficking(1) A person with a positive reasonable grounds decision from the National Referral Mechanism stating that they may be a victim of modern slavery and human trafficking must not be removed from the United Kingdom on the basis of the Rwanda Treaty until a conclusive grounds decision has been made.(2) A person with a positive conclusive grounds decision from the National Referral Mechanism that they are a victim of modern slavery and human trafficking must not be removed from the United Kingdom on the basis of the Rwanda Treaty without a decision-maker considering whether such removal would negatively affect the physical health, mental health or safety of that person, including in particular the risk of re-trafficking.(3) If the decision-maker makes a finding that any of the factors in subsection (2) apply to that person they must not be removed from the United Kingdom under the Rwanda Treaty without their consent.”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment is intended to identify and protect victims of modern slavery and human trafficking from being removed to Rwanda without their consent.

Ayes 246, Noes 171.

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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 (Content)Minority (Not-Content)Turnout
Bishop3 012.0%
Con4 158 (+2 tell)57.3%
Crossbench37 725.6%
DUP4 066.7%
Green1 050.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Judge4 044.4%
Lab112 (+2 tell) 066.3%
LDem67 082.7%
Non-affiliated10 323.2%
PC1 0100.0%
UUP0 150.0%
Total:244 16951.3%

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

Sort by: Name | Party | Vote

NamePartyVote
Lord Clarke of NottinghamConaye
Lord Deben Conaye
Baroness Fairhead Conaye
Lord Randall of UxbridgeCon (front bench)aye
Lord Carrington Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Green of DeddingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Powell of BayswaterCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Thurlow Crossbenchno
Viscount Waverley Crossbenchno
Lord Faulks Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Lupton Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no

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