Hunting Bill: amendment — hare coursing — 28 Oct 2003 at 19:49

A vote on whether to support Clause 5 of the Hunting Bill, which contained a ban on hare coursing from the Hunting Bill, or to allow for (permitted) "registered" coursing.

Those voting content were voting to retain the ban; those voting non-content supported registered hare coursing.

Their Lordships divided: Contents, 59; Not-Contents, 129.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source |

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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
Bishop1 04.2%
Con84 (+2 tell) 241.1%
Crossbench26 216.4%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Lab8 42 (+2 tell)27.1%
LDem6 1025.0%
Total:126 5627.9%

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 Fookes Con (front bench)aye
Lord Higgins Conaye
Viscount Colville of CulrossCrossbench (front bench)aye
Viscount Craigavon Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Bragg Labno
Lord Brooks of TremorfaLabno
Lord Donoughue Lab (minister)no
Lord Howie of TroonLabno
Baroness Mallalieu Lab (minister)no
Lord Randall of St BudeauxLabno
Viscount Simon Lab (minister)no
Lord Temple-Morris Lab (minister)no
Lord Carlile of BerriewLDemno
Lord Dahrendorf LDemno
Viscount Falkland LDem (front bench)no
Lord Mackie of BenshieLDemno
Lord Sharman LDemno
Lord Taverne LDemno

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