Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments — 23 Apr 2012 at 18:28

Motion C

Moved by Lord McNally

That this House do not insist on its Amendments 3 and 4 and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 4A and 4B.

4A Page 3, line 22, leave out subsection (4) and insert-

"( ) But the Lord Chancellor-

(a) must not give a direction or guidance about the carrying out of those functions in relation to an individual case, and

(b) must ensure that the Director acts independently of the Lord Chancellor when applying a direction or guidance under subsection (3) in relation to an individual case."

4B Page 3, line 24, leave out "about the carrying out of those functions" and insert "under this section"

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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
Bishop1 419.2%
Con149 (+1 tell) 068.2%
Crossbench14 35 (+2 tell)26.6%
DUP0 125.0%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Lab0 17472.2%
LDem76 (+1 tell) 183.9%
PC0 150.0%
UUP1 150.0%
Total:241 21859.1%

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

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NamePartyVote
The Bishop of ChesterBishopno
Lord Butler of BrockwellCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Dear Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Hannay of ChiswickCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Jones of BirminghamCrossbenchno
Lord Kakkar Crossbenchno
Lord Laming Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Mawson Crossbenchno
Baroness Meacher Crossbenchno
Lord Northbourne Crossbenchno
Lord Palmer Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Rowe-Beddoe Crossbench (front bench)no
Viscount Slim Crossbenchno
Lord Sutherland of HoundwoodCrossbenchno
Lord Williamson of HortonCrossbenchno
Viscount Falkland LDemaye
Lord Phillips of SudburyLDemaye
Baroness Tonge LDemaye

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