Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill — Commons Amendments and Reasons — Motion B1 (as an amendment to Motion B) — 16 Apr 2024 at 17:30

Moved by Lord Hope of Craighead

3E: Clause 1, page 2, line 31, at end insert-“(7) The Republic of Rwanda cannot be treated as a safe country for the purposes of this Act until the Secretary of State has obtained and laid before Parliament a statement from the independent Monitoring Committee formed under Article 15 that the Objectives referred to in Article 2 of the Rwanda Treaty have been secured by the creation of the mechanisms listed in that Article.(8) The Republic of Rwanda will cease to be a safe country for the purposes of this Act if a statement is made to Parliament by the Secretary of State, on the advice of the Monitoring Committee, that the provisions of the Rwanda Treaty are no longer being adhered to in practice.””

Ayes 266, Noes 227.

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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
Bishop5 020.0%
Con2 204 (+2 tell)71.0%
Crossbench53 (+1 tell) 836.0%
DUP0 583.3%
Green2 0100.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Judge2 (+1 tell) 033.3%
Lab119 068.8%
LDem70 086.4%
Non-affiliated8 625.0%
PC2 0100.0%
UUP0 2100.0%
Total:264 22560.0%

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

Sort by: Name | Party | Vote

NamePartyVote
Baroness Fairhead Con (front bench)aye
Viscount Hailsham Conaye
Lord Carrington Crossbench (front bench)no
Viscount Colville of CulrossCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbenchno
The Earl of ErrollCrossbenchno
Lord Evans of WeardaleCrossbenchno
Lord Green of DeddingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbench (front bench)no
Earl Peel Crossbenchno
Lord Faulks Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Baroness Foster of AghadrumseeNon-affiliatedno
Baroness Hoey Non-affiliatedno
Lord Moore of EtchinghamNon-affiliatedno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Tyrie Non-affiliated (front bench)no

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