Procedure of the House — Motion to Resolve — 24 Apr 2013 at 17:37

Moved by The Chairman of Committees

To resolve that this House establish, for the duration of the 2013-14 Session of Parliament, a Backbench Debates Committee;
That the Committee be appointed to schedule debates, to be moved by backbench and Crossbench members, or by Lords Spiritual:
During the time currently set aside for balloted debates;
On at least one day in Grand Committee for every six sitting weeks in the session;
That the Committee schedule a one-hour topical Question for Short Debate each week, from the start of the session until the end of January, to be taken on Thursday between the two time-limited debates;
That the Procedure Committee review and report on the work of the Backbench Debates Committee before the end of the 2013-14 session, with a view to recommending whether or not the Backbench Debates Committee should be established as a sessional select committee.

Division on Motion to resolve.

Contents 209; Not-Contents 243. [See col. 1469 for explanation of mistake in voting figures].

Motion disagreed.

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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
Bishop0 28.0%
Con156 (+1 tell) 2181.7%
Crossbench31 28 (+1 tell)31.1%
DUP1 025.0%
Independent Labour0 1100.0%
Judge2 121.4%
Lab4 121 (+1 tell)55.8%
LDem37 (+1 tell) 2871.0%
Non-affiliated0 13.6%
PC1 050.0%
UUP2 066.7%
Total:234 20354.6%

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

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NamePartyVote
Lord Baker of DorkingConaye
Lord Cormack Con (front bench)aye
Lord Crickhowell Con (front bench)aye
Lord Elton Con (front bench)aye
Lord Feldman Conaye
Lord Forsyth of DrumleanCon (front bench)aye
Lord Fowler Conaye
Lord Goodlad Con (front bench)aye
Lord Higgins Conaye
Lord Hurd of WestwellConaye
The Earl of LiverpoolConaye
Lord Lucas Conaye
Lord Lyell Con (front bench)aye
Lord Mackay of ClashfernCon (front bench)aye
Lord Marlesford Con (front bench)aye
Lord Northbrook Conaye
Lord Norton of LouthCon (front bench)aye
Lord Renton of Mount HarryConaye
Baroness Shephard of NorthwoldConaye
Lord Waddington Conaye
Lord Waldegrave of North HillCon (front bench)aye
Lord Aberdare Crossbench (front bench)aye
Baroness Afshar Crossbenchaye
Lord Alton of LiverpoolCrossbenchaye
Baroness Butler-Sloss Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Butler of BrockwellCrossbench (front bench)tellaye
Lord Cameron of DillingtonCrossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Cobbold Crossbenchaye
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Crisp Crossbenchaye
Lord Elystan-Morgan Crossbenchaye
Baroness Finlay of LlandaffCrossbenchaye
Lord Hannay of ChiswickCrossbench (front bench)aye
Baroness Hayman Crossbenchaye
Baroness Howe of IdlicoteCrossbenchaye
Lord Hylton Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Inge Crossbenchaye
Lord Kerr of KinlochardCrossbenchaye
Baroness Kidron Crossbenchaye
Lord Laming Crossbench (front bench)aye
The Countess of MarCrossbench (front bench)aye
Baroness Meacher Crossbenchaye
Lord Quirk Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Scott of FoscoteCrossbench (front bench)aye
Viscount Slim Crossbenchaye
Lord Stern of BrentfordCrossbenchaye
Lord Tanlaw Crossbenchaye
Lord Trees Crossbenchaye
Lord Williamson of HortonCrossbenchaye
Lord Wright of RichmondCrossbenchaye
Lord Phillips of Worth MatraversJudgeaye
Lord Boateng Labno
Baroness Mallalieu Lab (minister)no
Lord Noon Labno
Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanLabno
Lord Williams of BaglanLabno
Lord Alderdice LDem (front bench)aye
Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-HamdonLDemaye
Baroness Barker LDemaye
Lord Bradshaw LDemaye
Baroness Brinton LDemaye
Lord Dholakia LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Falkner of MargravineLDem (front bench)aye
Lord German LDemaye
Baroness Hamwee LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Harris of RichmondLDem (front bench)aye
Lord Kirkwood of KirkhopeLDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Kramer LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Linklater of ButterstoneLDemaye
Lord Maclennan of RogartLDem (front bench)aye
Lord Marks of Henley-on-ThamesLDem (front bench)aye
Lord Methuen LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Parminter LDemaye
Lord Phillips of SudburyLDemaye
Lord Rennard LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Sharp of GuildfordLDem (front bench)aye
Lord Shipley LDem (front bench)aye
Lord Stephen LDemaye
Lord Stoneham of DroxfordLDemaye
Lord Strasburger LDemaye
Lord Teverson LDem (front bench)aye
Lord Tope LDemaye
Lord Tyler LDem (front bench)aye
Baroness Williams of CrosbyLDemaye

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