Victims and Prisoners Bill — Report (2nd Day) — Amendment 57 — 23 Apr 2024 at 17:30

Moved by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

57: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clause-“Duty to co-operate with Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses(1) The Commissioner may request a specified public authority to co-operate with the Commissioner in any way that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of monitoring compliance with the victims’ code.(2) A specified public authority must, so far as reasonably practicable, comply with a request made to it under this section.(3) In this section “specified public authority” means any of the following-(a) a criminal justice body, as defined by section 6(6);(b) the Parole Board;(c) an elected local policing body;(d) the British Transport Police Force;(e) the Ministry of Defence Police.(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend this section so as to-(a) add a public authority as a specified public authority for the purposes of this section;(b) remove a public authority added by virtue of subsection (4)(a);(c) vary any description of a public authority.”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment would create a duty for specified public authorities to collaborate with the Victims and Witnesses Commissioner.

Ayes 200, Noes 192.

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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
Con1 175 (+2 tell)61.0%
Crossbench23 617.0%
DUP0 350.0%
Green1 050.0%
Independent Labour1 0100.0%
Judge1 011.1%
Lab104 (+2 tell) 061.6%
LDem59 072.8%
Non-affiliated7 419.6%
PC1 050.0%
UUP0 2100.0%
Total:198 19049.4%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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

Sort by: Name | Party | Vote

NamePartyVote
Baroness Newlove Con (front bench)aye
Lord Faulks Non-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Greenway Crossbenchno
Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Kerr of KinlochardCrossbenchno
Lord Londesborough Crossbench (front bench)no
Lord Macpherson of Earl's CourtCrossbench (front bench)no
Earl Peel Crossbenchno
Baroness Stowell of BeestonNon-affiliated (front bench)no
Lord Taylor of WarwickNon-affiliatedno
Lord Tyrie Non-affiliated (front bench)no

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