Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 4) — 26 Mar 2003 at 13:21

Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Orders [28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002],

That the programme order of 10th February 2003 in relation to the Police (Northern Ireland) Bill <[i>Lords] be further varied as follows-

Consideration and Third Reading

1. Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the order shall be omitted.
2. Proceedings on consideration and Third Reading shall be concluded in two days.
3. Proceedings on consideration shall be taken on each of those days as shown in the first column of the following Table and shall be taken in the order so shown.
4. Proceedings on the first day shall be brought to a conclusion six and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on that day or at the conclusion of the proceedings set down for that day, whichever is the earlier.
5. The proceedings shown in the first column of the table shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the time specified in the second column of the Table.
6. Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on the second of those days.-[Gillian Merron.]

The House divided: Ayes 277, Noes 152.

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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 are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con0 98 (+2 tell)061.3%
DUP0 4080.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Independent Conservative0 10100.0%
Lab276 (+2 tell) 0067.8%
LDem0 33062.3%
PC0 40100.0%
SDLP1 0033.3%
SNP0 50100.0%
UUP0 60100.0%
Total:277 152066.5%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs 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 MP who could have voted in this division

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
no rebellions

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