Health and Care Bill — Report (4th Day) — Amendment 170 — 16 Mar 2022 at 20:00
Moved by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
170: After Clause 164, insert the following new Clause-“Assisted dying(1) The Secretary of State must, within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, lay before Parliament a draft Bill to permit terminally ill, mentally competent adults legally to end their own lives with medical assistance.(2) In preparing the draft Bill and any accompanying documents and in making arrangements to lay them before Parliament, the Secretary of State must take account of the need-(a) to respect that this is a matter of conscience, and(b) to enable Parliament to consider the issue.”
Ayes 145, Noes 179.
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 (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 4 | 0 | 16.7% |
| Con | 102 | 26 | 47.8% |
| Crossbench | 21 | 26 | 26.3% |
| DUP | 4 | 0 | 80.0% |
| Green | 0 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 0 | 1 | 9.1% |
| Lab | 23 | 50 | 41.5% |
| LDem | 18 | 33 | 60.7% |
| Non-affiliated | 6 | 5 | 19.3% |
| PC | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Total: | 179 | 145 | 40.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.