Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill — Commons Amendments and Reasons — Motion C1 (as an amendment to Motion C) — 6 Jun 2023 at 16:30

Moved by Lord Krebs

15B: After Clause 16, insert the following new Clause- “Environmental protection (1) Regulations may not be made by a relevant national authority under section 12, 13, 15 or 16 unless the relevant national authority is satisfied that the regulations do not- (a) reduce the level of environmental protection arising from the retained EU law to which the provision relates; (b) conflict with any relevant international environmental agreements to which the United Kingdom is party. (2) Prior to making any provision to which this section applies, the relevant national authority must- (a) seek advice from persons who are independent of the authority and have relevant expertise, and (b) publish a report setting out- (i) how the provision does not reduce the level of environmental protection in accordance with subsection (1), and (ii) how the authority has taken into account the advice from the persons referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection. (3) In this section “relevant international environmental agreements” includes but is not limited to- (a) the UNECE Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters (Aarhus, 25 June 1998); (b) the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern, 1979); (c) the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio, 1992); (d) the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn, 1979); (e) the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR, 1992); (f) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar, 1971).””

Ayes 244, Noes 190.

Debate in Parliament |

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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
Bishop1 04.0%
Con4 171 (+2 tell)64.1%
Crossbench47 (+1 tell) 530.3%
DUP0 466.7%
Green2 0100.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Judge1 09.1%
Lab114 (+1 tell) 064.2%
LDem61 073.5%
Non-affiliated10 730.4%
PC1 0100.0%
UUP0 150.0%
Total:242 18853.1%

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
Lord Clarke of NottinghamConaye
Lord Deben Conaye
Lord Duncan of SpringbankCon (front bench)aye
Lord Patten of BarnesConaye
Viscount Craigavon Crossbenchno
Lord Craig of RadleyCrossbenchno
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbenchno
Lord Stevens of KirkwhelpingtonCrossbenchno
Lord Faulks Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Foster of AghadrumseeNon-affiliatedno
Baroness Fox of BuckleyNon-affiliatedno
Baroness Hoey Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Baroness Stuart of EdgbastonNon-affiliatedno
Lord Tyrie Non-affiliated (front bench)no

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