The Aye-voters failed to pass the motion:

This House considers that arrangements for the supervision of the hunting of wild mammals with dogs should be given statutory effect by provision similar to Schedule 1 to the Hunting Bill as introduced into the Commons last session.

The rejected schedule would allowed hunting to continue under a self-supervision scheme.

The Aye-voters failed to pass the motion:

That this House considers that the hunting of wild mammals with dogs should be required to be regulated in accordance with arrangements similar to those set out in Schedule 2 to the Hunting Bill as introduced into the Commons last session [Bill 2].-[Alun Michael.]

The Aye-voters passed the motion:

That this House considers that the hunting of wild mammals with dogs should be prohibited in accordance with provision similar to Schedule 3 to the Hunting Bill as introduced in the Commons last Session [Bill 2].-[Alun Michael.]

This vote indicated a preference to ban hunting with dogs instead of allowing it to continue under either a self-supervision or a licensing scheme.

The Aye-voters failed to pass an amendment by the Middle Way group to add new clause 6:

(1) Registration under Part 2 may be effected in respect of hunting that involves the use of a dog below ground.

(2) The Secretary of State may make regulations for the recognition of any existing body as the proper authority for making a code in respect of the conduct of any activity in connection with the use of dogs below ground on wild mammals.

The unamended Bill banned hunting with terriers underground but the amendment would have allowed it to be licensed.

The Aye-voters successfully passed an amendment to add new clause 11:

Registration under Part 2 shall not be effected in respect of the hunting of foxes.

This was the key amendment in changing the Bill away from the Government's proposal for registered hunting. The amendment made the bill absolutely ban the hunting of foxes with dogs.

The Aye-voters successfully passed an amendment to add new clause 14:

Registration under Part 2 shall not be effected in respect of the hunting of mink.

This amendment was the "sister amendment" to one banning the hunting of foxes. This amendment absolutely banned the hunting of mink with dogs.

The Aye voters supported the second reading of the Hunting Bill, knowing that it was identical to the Bill to which the House of Commons gave a Third Reading on 9 July 2003. (This was the criterion that would allow the Parliament Act to be used to pass the Bill.)

Question put, That the Bill be read a Second time:-

The House divided: Ayes 356, Noes 166.

*Pressure of other work means MPs or Lords are not always available to vote – it does not always indicate they have abstained. Therefore, being absent on a less important vote makes a disproportionatly small difference.