Domestic Abuse Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments — Motion E1 (as an amendment to Motion E) — 21 Apr 2021 at 16:45

Moved by Baroness Meacher

40B: After Clause 72, insert the following new Clause-“Victims of domestic abuse: data-sharing for immigration purposes(1) The Secretary of State must make arrangements to ensure that personal data of a victim of domestic abuse in the United Kingdom that is processed for the purpose of that person requesting or receiving support or assistance related to domestic abuse is not used for any immigration control purpose.(2) The Secretary of State must make arrangements to ensure that the personal data of a witness to domestic abuse in the United Kingdom that is processed for the purpose of that person giving information or evidence to assist the investigation or prosecution of that abuse, or to assist the victim of that abuse in any legal proceedings, is not used for any immigration control purpose.(3) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Data Protection Act 2018 shall not apply to the personal data to which subsection (1) or (2) applies.(4) For the purposes of this section, the Secretary of State must issue guidance to-(a) persons from whom support or assistance may be requested or received by a victim of domestic abuse in the United Kingdom;(b) persons exercising any function of the Secretary of State in relation to immigration, asylum or nationality; and(c) persons exercising any function conferred by or by virtue of the Immigration Acts on an immigration officer.(5) For the purposes of this section-“immigration control purpose” means any purpose of the functions to which subsection (4)(b) and (c) refers;“support or assistance” includes the provision of accommodation, banking services, education, employment, financial or social assistance, healthcare and policing services; and any function of a court or prosecuting authority;“victim” includes any dependent of a person, at whom the domestic abuse is directed, where that dependent is affected by that abuse.”

40C: In Clause 79, after subsection (7) insert-“(7A) Regulations under this section bringing section (Victims of domestic abuse: data-sharing for immigration purposes) into force may not be made until both Houses of Parliament have approved a resolution to the effect that it should be brought into force, moved either after debate in that House of any publication of the outcome of a review by the Secretary of State of existing data-sharing procedures in relation to victims of domestic abuse for purposes of immigration control, or after 1 July 2021, whichever is the sooner.””

Ayes 307, Noes 253.

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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 (Content)Minority (Not-Content)Turnout
Bishop7 026.9%
Con1 22283.2%
Crossbench69 1346.1%
DUP0 5100.0%
Green2 0100.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Lab135 073.4%
LDem78 090.7%
Non-affiliated13 1142.1%
PC1 0100.0%
UUP0 2100.0%
Total:307 25369.1%

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
Baroness Warsi Conaye
Lord Aberdare Crossbenchno
Lord Anderson of IpswichCrossbenchno
Lord Botham Crossbenchno
Lord Carrington Crossbenchno
Baroness Cavendish of Little VeniceCrossbenchno
Baroness Deech Crossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of DevonCrossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of ErrollCrossbenchno
Lord Green of DeddingtonCrossbenchno
Baroness Greengross Crossbenchno
The Earl of LyttonCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Powell of BayswaterCrossbenchno
Lord Stevens of KirkwhelpingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Bhatia Non-affiliatedno
Lord Faulks Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Baroness Fox of BuckleyNon-affiliatedno
Lord Gadhia Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Hoey Non-affiliatedno
Lord Inglewood Non-affiliatedno
Lord Moore of EtchinghamNon-affiliatedno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Baroness Stuart of EdgbastonNon-affiliatedno
Lord Taylor of WarwickNon-affiliatedno
Lord Truscott Non-affiliatedno

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