Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] — Report — Amendment 5 — 16 Jan 2024 at 17:30

Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool

5: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause-“Report: accession of the People’s Republic of China to the CPTPP(1) Before any decision is made by the Government of the United Kingdom on the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the CPTPP under Chapter 30 of the CPTPP, the Secretary of State must publish a report assessing the impact of China’s accession on the United Kingdom.(2) Both Houses of Parliament must be presented with a motion for resolution on the report under subsection (1).”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment seeks to allow for parliamentary scrutiny of the prospective accession of the People’s Republic of China to the CPTPP - the Government of which has already applied to join, and whose application is to be considered. Scrutiny of future accessions is not provided for in the bill or through the CRaG process.

Ayes 102, Noes 212.

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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 (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Con195 (+2 tell) 270.1%
Crossbench9 22 (+1 tell)18.5%
DUP0 6100.0%
Green0 2100.0%
Lab1 32.3%
LDem0 58 (+1 tell)72.8%
Non-affiliated4 617.9%
UUP1 1100.0%
Total:210 10040.4%

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
The Earl of LiverpoolConaye
Lord Shinkwin Conaye
Lord Chartres Crossbench (front bench)no
Viscount Colville of CulrossCrossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of Cork and OrreryCrossbench (front bench)no
The Earl of ErrollCrossbenchno
Lord Green of HurstpierpointCrossbenchno
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Lord Hampton Crossbenchno
Lord Jay of EwelmeCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Kerr of KinlochardCrossbench (front bench)no
Lord Campbell-Savours Labno
Lord Faulks Non-affiliatedno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Taylor of WarwickNon-affiliatedno
Lord Young of Old WindsorNon-affiliatedno

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