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
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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 | 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% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.