Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments — Motion E1 (as an amendment to Motion E) — 26 Apr 2021 at 16:15

Moved by Lord Dannatt

5B: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause-“Duty of care to service personnel(1) The Secretary of State must establish a duty of care standard in relation to legal, pastoral and mental health support provided to service personnel involved in investigations or litigation arising from overseas operations, as defined in subsection (6) of section 1.(2) The Secretary of State must lay a copy of this standard before Parliament within six months of the date on which this Act is passed.(3) The Secretary of State must thereafter in each calendar year-(a) prepare a duty of care update, and(b) include the update in the Armed Forces Covenant annual report when it is laid before Parliament.(4) The duty of care update is a review about the continuous process and improvement to meet the duty of care standard established in subsection (1), in particular in relation to incidents arising from overseas operations of-(a) litigation and investigations brought against service personnel for allegations of criminal misconduct and wrongdoing;(b) judicial reviews and inquiries into allegations of misconduct by service personnel;(c) such other related fields as the Secretary of State may determine.(5) In subsection (1) “service personnel” means-(a) members of the regular forces and the reserve forces;(b) members of British overseas territory forces who are subject to service law;(c) former members of any of Her Majesty’s forces who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom; and(d) where relevant, family members of any person meeting the definition within paragraph (a), (b) or (c).(6) In subsection (1) “duty of care” means both the legal and moral obligation of the Ministry of Defence to ensure the wellbeing of service personnel.(7) None of the provisions of this section may be used to alter the principle of combat immunity.””

Ayes 312, Noes 243.

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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
Bishop2 07.7%
Con1 23086.8%
Crossbench72 543.0%
DUP5 0100.0%
Green2 0100.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Judge3 136.4%
Lab134 072.8%
LDem78 090.7%
Non-affiliated12 631.6%
PC1 0100.0%
UUP1 1100.0%
Total:312 24367.7%

Rebel Voters - sorted by name

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 Aberdare Crossbenchno
Lord Austin of DudleyNon-affiliatedno
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-HeywoodJudge (front bench)no
Lord Carrington Crossbenchno
Viscount Colville of CulrossCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Faulks Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Baroness Fox of BuckleyNon-affiliatedno
Lord Gadhia Non-affiliatedno
Lord Kalms Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Meacher Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Tyrie Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Vaux of HarrowdenCrossbench (front bench)no
Baroness Warsi Conaye

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