Climate Change Bill — Committee or Commission — 14 Jan 2008 at 15:50
The majority voted against changing the name of the body that oversees the policy[1] from "The Committee on Climate Change" to "The Commission on Climate Change".
The discussion over this issue was steeped in the sematics of the meanings of the phrases "Committee for X", "X Commission" and even "X Authority".[2]
As this was the first vote on the Bill, links to all previous debates provided below.
- [1] Climate Change Bill Part 2
- [2] Lord Crickhowell, 14 January 2008.
- Climate Change Bill (HL Bill-9)
- Climate Change Bill History
- Second Reading Debate, House of Lords, 27 November 2007
- Committee Stage, 1st sitting, House of Lords, 11 December 2007
- Committee Stage, 2nd sitting, House of Lords, 11 December 2007
- Committee Stage, 3rd sitting, House of Lords, 17 December 2007
- Committee Stage, 4th sitting, House of Lords, 17 December 2007
- Committee Stage, 5th sitting, House of Lords, 17 December 2007
- Committee Stage, 6th sitting, House of Lords, 8 January 2007
- Committee Stage, 7th sitting, House of Lords, 8 January 2007
- Committee Stage, 8th sitting, House of Lords, 9 January 2007
- Committee Stage, 9th sitting, House of Lords, 14 January 2008
- Committee Stage, 10th sitting, House of Lords, 14 January 2008
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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 | 3 | 0 | 11.5% |
| Con | 0 | 61 (+2 tell) | 30.4% |
| Crossbench | 19 | 17 | 19.0% |
| Lab | 114 (+2 tell) | 0 | 52.5% |
| LDem | 29 | 0 | 36.3% |
| UUP | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 166 | 78 | 34.3% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by vote
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.