Postal Services Bill — Report (1st Day) — 4 May 2011 at 16:43
Amendment 2
Moved by Lord Young of Norwood Green
2: Before Clause 2, insert the following new Clause-
"Royal Mail companies to be publicly owned
(1) Each Royal Mail company must at all times be publicly owned.
(2) Accordingly-
(a) any issue or transfer of shares in a company will have no effect if it would cause a Royal Mail company to cease to be publicly owned, and
(b) any issue or transfer of share rights to a person will have no effect if the acquisition by the person of the shares to which the share rights relate would cause a Royal Mail company to cease to be publicly owned."
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 |
| Con | 126 (+2 tell) | 0 | 57.1% |
| Crossbench | 34 | 13 | 24.9% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 141 (+2 tell) | 57.4% |
| LDem | 53 | 1 | 55.7% |
| UUP | 2 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Total: | 215 | 156 | 49.1% |
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Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.