Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 — 17 Jun 2003 at 22:15

rose to move, That this House invites Her Majesty's Government to withdraw the draft Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 and to lay new regulations amending regulation 7(3) so as to conform with the EC Framework Directive 2000/78/EC.

On Question, Whether the said Motion shall be agreed to?

Their Lordships divided: Contents, 50; Not-Contents, 85.

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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 (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Bishop2 216.7%
Con19 511.1%
Crossbench5 77.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Lab54 (+2 tell) 732.5%
LDem0 27 (+2 tell)44.6%
Total:81 4819.8%

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
The Earl of DundeeCon (front bench)aye
Lord Mayhew of TwysdenCon (front bench)aye
The Earl of NortheskConaye
Lord Norton of LouthCon (front bench)aye
Lord Skelmersdale Con (front bench)aye
Lord Chan Crossbenchno
Lord Hylton Crossbenchno
Lord Monson Crossbenchno
Lord Neill of BladenCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Northbourne Crossbenchno
Lord Alli Labaye
Baroness Gibson of Market RasenLab (minister)aye
Lord Janner of BraunstoneLab (minister)aye
Lord Parekh Lab (minister)aye
Baroness Turner of CamdenLabaye
Lord Wedderburn of CharltonLabaye
Baroness Wilkins Lab (minister)aye

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