Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Consultation Period on New Constituency Boundaries — 8 Feb 2011 at 16:51
The majority of members of the House of Lords voted against reducing the consultation period on proposed new parliamentary constituencies from 12 to six weeks.
The House of Lords was considering the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[1]. The motion rejected in this vote was:
- Amendment 27GA : Clause 12, line 11, leave out "12" and insert "6"
The section of the Bill affected stated:
- that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission during a specified period of 12 weeks;
this relates to the consultation period for proposed new parliamentary constituency boundaries.
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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 | 2 | 8.3% |
| Con | 164 (+1 tell) | 0 | 74.0% |
| Crossbench | 19 | 65 | 44.2% |
| DUP | 0 | 2 | 50.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 181 (+2 tell) | 74.1% |
| LDem | 78 (+1 tell) | 0 | 81.4% |
| PC | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Total: | 262 | 253 | 65.6% |
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 Bew | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Dear | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Baroness Deech | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Baroness Greengross | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Greenway | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Hannay of Chiswick | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Baroness Howe of Idlicote | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Krebs | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Lloyd of Berwick | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Baroness Masham of Ilton | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord May of Oxford | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Northbourne | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Palmer | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Quirk | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Ramsbotham | Crossbench | no |
| Viscount Slim | Crossbench | no |
| Lord Walpole | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
| Lord Wright of Richmond | Crossbench | no |