Hunting with dogs: Ban — 19 Mar 2002 at 18:04
a free "indicative" vote to guide the Government on how to deal with the issue of hunting with dogs. Those voting "content" in this division were supporting a ban on hunting with dogs - in accordance with provision similar to Schedule 3 to the Hunting Bill as introduced in the Commons in Session 2000–01 [Bill 2].
Other votes covered the options of self-regulation of hunting and a licensing scheme. The House of Commons had held its own "indicative" votes the previous day.
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 74; Not-Contents, 331.
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 | 6 | 0 | 22.2% |
Con | 169 (+1 tell) | 1 | 75.0% |
Crossbench | 75 | 3 | 44.6% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 44 (+1 tell) | 60 (+1 tell) | 53.3% |
LDem | 31 | 7 (+1 tell) | 59.1% |
UUP | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Total: | 328 | 71 | 57.7% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.