Great British Energy Bill — Report (Continued) — Amendment 50 — 11 Feb 2025 at 12:15

Moved by Lord Fuller

50: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause-“Duty to meet national food security criteriaGreat British Energy must, in the exercise of its functions and when delivering the objects in section 3 and statement of strategic priorities in section 5 of this Act, take all reasonable steps to prevent the use of agricultural land classified as grade 1, 2 or 3a for solar energy production.”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment would require Great British Energy to take all reasonable steps to prevent the use of agricultural land classified as grade 1, 2 or 3a for solar energy production.

Ayes 67, Noes 115.

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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
Con0 60 (+2 tell)20.9%
Crossbench4 12.9%
DUP0 116.7%
Green1 050.0%
Judge1 011.1%
Lab83 (+2 tell) 047.0%
LDem5 06.2%
Non-affiliated3 06.0%
PC0 150.0%
UUP0 133.3%
Total:97 6420.6%

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 Alton of LiverpoolCrossbench (front bench)aye

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