Digital Economy Bill — Report (3rd Day) — 29 Mar 2017 at 17:15
Moved by Lord Best
32A: After Clause 81, insert the following new Clause-“BBC Licence Fee Commission(1) The Secretary of State must, by regulations made by statutory instrument, set up an independent body (“the BBC Licence Fee Commission”).(2) It is to be the duty of the BBC Licence Fee Commission to make a recommendation to the Secretary of State regarding the level of licence fee required to fund the BBC for the purposes set out in the Royal Charter and Agreement in respect of the settlement from 1 April 2022, and for each successive settlement thereafter.”
Ayes 268, Noes 201.
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 (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Con | 1 | 180 (+2 tell) | 70.7% |
| Crossbench | 45 (+1 tell) | 11 | 32.0% |
| DUP | 0 | 2 | 50.0% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 4 | 0 | 28.6% |
| Lab | 129 (+1 tell) | 0 | 61.6% |
| LDem | 79 | 0 | 77.5% |
| Non-affiliated | 6 | 4 | 28.6% |
| PC | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 266 | 199 | 58.1% |
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Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.