Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 — 9 Jan 2007 at 21:49
The Contents were voting against prohibiting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in provision of goods and services in Northern Ireland. The vote was moved by Democratic Unionist Lord Morrow to annul the Equality Act (sexual orientation) regulations (Northern Ireland)
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 68; Not-Contents, 199.
So the Contents lost the vote and legislation continues through Parliament
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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.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 1 | 4 | 19.2% |
| Con | 9 | 41 | 23.8% |
| Crossbench | 19 | 17 | 19.0% |
| DUP | 0 | 1 (+2 tell) | 100.0% |
| Lab | 113 (+2 tell) | 0 | 53.0% |
| LDem | 51 | 0 | 64.6% |
| UKIP | 0 | 1 | 50.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 193 | 65 | 36.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.