Planning Bill — Policy must mitigate and adapt to Climate Change — rejected — 6 Nov 2008 at 16:44
The majority of the Lords voted against requiring the National Policy Statement[1] made by the Minister to "contribute to the mitigation of and to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change and to the achievement of sustainable development"[2]
A similar vote was also lost in the House of Commons earlier in the year.[3] This establishes the case that national planning policy need not take account of mitigation or adaptation to the challenge of climate change.
- [1] National Policy Statements, Clause 5, Planning Bill
- [2] The Bishop of Liverpool, House of Lords, 6 November 2008
- [3] Planning Bill - Consideration of climate change - rejected, House of Commons Division, 2 June 2008
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 | 0 | 1 | 4.0% |
| Con | 1 | 28 | 14.3% |
| Crossbench | 10 | 8 | 9.4% |
| Lab | 80 (+2 tell) | 0 | 37.6% |
| LDem | 0 | 26 (+2 tell) | 36.8% |
| Total: | 91 | 63 | 22.1% |
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
| Name | Party | Vote |
| Lord Reay | Con | no |
| Viscount Brookeborough | Crossbench | aye |
| Lord Butler of Brockwell | Crossbench | aye |
| Lord Cameron of Dillington | Crossbench | aye |
| Baroness Cox | Crossbench | aye |
| Baroness Greengross | Crossbench | aye |
| Baroness Masham of Ilton | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
| Lord Ramsbotham | Crossbench | aye |
| Lord Thomas of Swynnerton | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |