Digital Economy Bill — OFCOM to promote investment in electronic communications networks — 1 Mar 2010 at 16:49

The majority of Lords voted for retaining the additional powers of OFCOM "to promote appropriate levels of investment in electronic communications networks" from the Digital Economy Bill (clause 1).

This was similar to the Lords Division on 6 January to keep the entire clause.

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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
Con1 64 (+2 tell)34.9%
Crossbench26 717.7%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Lab118 (+2 tell) 055.6%
LDem40 053.3%
UUP1 033.3%
Total:187 7138.9%

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
The Earl of DundeeCon (front bench)no
Viscount Allenby of MegiddoCrossbenchaye
Lord Chorley Crossbenchaye
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbench (front bench)aye
Baroness Masham of IltonCrossbenchaye
Lord Ramsbotham Crossbenchaye
Lady Saltoun of AbernethyCrossbenchaye
Lord Walpole Crossbench (front bench)aye

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