Click within the grid for more detail about a particular defeat. How many times has the Government been defeated in the House of Lords this session? To require the Secretary of State to lay before parliament the results of a consultation with residents and stakeholders impacted by the new Phase 2a of High Speed 2 by May 2021. To require that under community treatment orders, if the responsible clinician is not a medical practitioner then they will ensure that the patient is examined by a registed medical practitioner. Lord Norton has referred to the Welfare Reform Bill defeats in the Lords, which I’ve been giving some considerable thought to. Earlier (1918–1945) large (of a margin of more than 100) defeats of governments were for the first MacDonald government, which suffered defeats by a margin of 166 on 8 October 1924 on the Campbell case , and by a margin of 140 … To insist to not remove the work-related activity component of the Employment and Support Allowance, but requiring only a delay until the Secretary of State has presented an impact assessment report before both Houses. To require a marine plan authority for where a marine policy statement governs marine planning for the region. Reacting to the defeats, a government spokesperson said: "We are disappointed that the House of Lords has voted to remove clauses from the UK Internal Market Bill, which was backed in the House … To regret that the draft regulations fail to fulfil the Prime Minister’s intention to maintain the UK’s participation in the European Chemicals Agency, and to call on the government to make participation in the ECA an objective in negotiations with the EU (non-fatal motion). To insert a clause requiring that both Houses of parliament approve of draft negotiating objectives before trade negotiations can begin, and draft trade agreements before they can be ratified. To retain civil legal services for benefits claimants who wish to challenge cuts to their allowances at a first-tier tribunal. To add the threshold above which local authority tenants are regarded as high income tenants to the face of the bill, increasing it to £50,000 a year per household in London, and £40,000 outside London, rather than the £40,000 and £30,000 proposed by the government. To insist on removal of a clause which allows employees to become "employee shareholders" when they receive £2000 or more in shares, and requires that in so doing they forego certain rights, including redundancy payment and the right to claim unfair dismissal. To allow the government to create a trusted couriers scheme, by creating a new category of trusted couriers who are exempted from restrictions in the bill regarding delivery of bladed products to residential premises. To require the Secretary of State to lay an independent report before Parliament on the operation of the new assessments of capacity to work annually for the first five years after these sections come into effect. You may find some parts of this website To move to adjourn the debate on the EU Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration for the Prime Minister's Statement in the House of Commons. To insert a clause stating that before being subjected to compulsory treatment it should be a requirement that a patient's mental disorder means their 'ability to make decisions about the provision of medical treatment is significantly impaired'. Below is an overview of these defeats, listed in chronological order. To require that the establishment of probation trusts cannot be made unless a draft resolution is approved by each House. To insert a clause establishing a Defamation Recognition Commission. To require that the lower rate of additional universal credit allowance for disabled children is no less than two-thirds of the higher rate. To establish the Trade and Agriculture Commission in law, and require it to make recommendations to the Secretary of State to promote, maintain and safeguard current standards of food production through international trade policy. To introduce judicial discretion rather than obligation in the ordering of closed material procedures where national security is considered to be involved. To require all fishing vessels over 10 metres in length that fish in UK waters to use remote electronic monitoring of their fishing activities, and that plans be published to extend this to all vessels. To regret that the regulations replace EU State Aid rules with an as yet undefined regime, and therefore call on the government to delay their implementation (non-fatal motion). To ensure that rights under UK law to family reunion, currently covered by the Dublin III Treaty EU regulations, will continue after the transition period. The column on the right shows the number of votes the government was beaten by. To regret the regulations’ lack of clarity about the legal status of some EEA and Swiss citizens during the 6 months after the transition period, when they may still apply for settled/pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme (non-fatal motion). To require the UK government to produce proposals within three months of giving notification of the intention of withdrawal from the EU to ensure that the rights of residence of citizens of EU or EEA countries legally resident in the UK are maintained. To remove the ability of ministers to create criminal offences through regulations made under the bill regarding the detection, investigation or prevention of money laundering. To insert a clause requiring the government to take all necessary steps to implement an international trade agreement which enables the UK to participate in a customs union with the European Union after exit day. To provide that trade unions with political funds ask new members upon joining whether they wish to contribute to the political fund. To remove a (‘Henry VIII’) power that would allow ministers to amend the Act by regulations in order to change what laws are within the scope of the non-discrimination market access principle. To insist to require all new homes in England built from 1 April 2018 to achieve the carbon compliance standard equivalent to an improvement on the target emission rate of 60% for detached houses, 56% for attached houses, and 44% for flats. To delete the provision in the bill that defines exit day as 11pm on 29 March 2019, and to specify instead that exit day may be appointed through regulations. To require that probation trusts' membership must include "a magistrate for the area in which the probation trust carries out its functions" and a local councillor for the same area. Parliament examines what the Government is doing, makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes and debates the issues of the day. To ensure that large aerodrome operators shall (not "may") have a duty to monitor noise and to fix charges in respect of aircraft which exceed noise limits. Below is an overview of these defeats, listed in chronological order. To restrict the scope of regulations that can be made under the bill to the specific list of purposes listed in the bill, rather than leaving the list open, as the bill currently allows. The government was outvoted in the House of Lords twice this month over the draft law authorising the Prime Minister to trigger Brexit. To regret that the Rules will not continue to protect tenants from eviction, and to call on the government to amend the Housing Act 1998 to give courts temporary discretion on evictions (non-fatal motion). To insert a clause requiring a minister introducing a bill to make a 'devolution statement' declaring the compatibility of the legislation with the principle of devolution to the local level. To amend government proposals criminalising the distribution of terrorist publications so that the individual commits an offence if he/she "directly or indirectly" encourages acts of terrorism. To insist on parliamentary approval for the outcome of UK-EU negotiations, but, in line with Dominic Grieve's amendment at CCLA, to require the government, in case no agreement has been reached  by 21 January 2019, to make a statement regarding their proposed strategy subject to a motion to approve in the House of Commons, rather than to a motion in neutral terms, as proposed by the government. Find Members of Parliament (MPs) by postcode and constituency, and Members of the House of Lords by name and party. To remove a clause stipulating that harrasment occurs where an individual's dignity is violated or if a hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive atmosphere is created on the grounds of religion or belief. The UK government was defeated 29 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2007-08. To require that ministers should seek approval by Parliament of a mandate to negotiate the UK's future relationship with the EU. To insert a clause to require all new homes in England built from 1 April 2018 to achieve the carbon compliance standard equivalent to an improvement on the target emission rate of 60% for detached houses, 56% for attached houses, and 44% for flats. To limit the scope of the bill, allowing the Secretary of State to only make reciprocal healthcare payment arrangements with countries in the EU and the European Economic Area, and not with countries in the rest of the world. Produced by Commons Library, Lords Library, and Parliamentary Office Science and Technology. To insert a clause ensuring that the Secretary of State cannot merge police forces without the consent of the relevant police authorities. To insert a clause requiring that a trade agreement with the EU should include a mobility framework that enables UK and EU citizens to exercise the same reciprocal rights to work, live and study for the purpose of the provision of trade in goods or services. To retain in domestic law the right to challenge a legal instrument retained from EU law on the grounds that it fails to comply with general principles of EU law. To prevent trade agreements from allowing any part of UK health, care, or publicly funded data processing services and IT systems in connection with health and care to be controlled from outside the UK. Click within the grid for more detail about a particular defeat. To insert a clause requiring that an independent review of all council tax reduction schemes be implemented by the Secretary of State within three years of the Act coming into place. Now, however, the Tories are in a minority in the Lords. This page lists all government defeats in the House of Lords since the start of the 2017-19 parliamentary session, in reverse order. Parliament and Brexit (UK in a Changing Europe Report) >, Meg Russell appears on UK in a changing Europe panel, Meg Russell gives evidence to Liaison Commmittee >, Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4977Email: constitution@ucl.ac.uk. The UK government was defeated 45 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2006-07. That House will then debate and amend the bill through a number of stages (First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage, Report Stage and Third Reading). To require the Office for Students to ensure, in granting degree-awarding powers to higher education providers, that providers have functioned to required standards for at least four years, or have the approval of the proposed Quality Assessment Committee. To exclude all activity that doesn't directly target electors from the constituency spending limits imposed on third parties during election campaigns. To insert a clause requiring the Secretary of State to produce an annual report on devolution within England. To require that an independent commissioner decides if it is in the public interest that certain information may be disclosed. To remove clauses 42 and 43 which require UK and devolved ministers not to implement customs checks as obliged by the Northern Ireland protocol if those obligations are removed by regulations made under the Bill. The Bill is published as a House of Commons paper for the first time. To insert a clause requiring that the Secretary of State must lay before each House of Parliament an annual report on child poverty based on measures of family income. To provide for each of the devolved administrations to appoint a member to the Competition and Markets Authority Board. To remove a clause enabling the Secretary of State to exempt local authorities in England from children's social care legislation requirements in order to allow them to test different ways of working to provide children's social care. The House of Lords voted in favour of five amendments over two days of debate, leading the new government to its first parliamentary defeats. To insist that detention of pregnant women in immigration cases should apply only in the most exceptional circumstances, agreeing to the time limit of 72 hours, or up to 7 days days if detention is authorised by a minister, as proposed by the House of Commons. Find out what’s on today at the House of Commons and House of Lords. Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill. To confine redress investigations to "investigation of the facts of cases and not to consider the issues of liability in tort". Government. To require that the Statistics Board monitors the arrangements for the release of government statistics. To insist on previous amendment to ensure that large aerodrome operators shall (not "may") have a duty to monitor noise and to fix charges in respect of aircraft which exceed noise limits. To insert a clause conditioning the commencement of the bill on the House of Commons having approved either a resolution regarding a withdrawal agreement with the EU, or a motion approving exiting the EU without a withdrawal agreement. To establish an Office for the Internal Market independent of the Competition and Markets Authority. argued to be government defeats. To insert a clause setting out the role of parliament and of the devolved administrations in free trade negotiations, requiring approval by both houses for negotiating mandates, and specifying that trade agreements must be approved by resolution of both houses before ratification. To specify that care and treatment arrangements which imply deprivation of liberty should be necessary to prevent harm to the cared-for person, rather than just necessary and proportionate, as currently defined in the bill. To remove a clause which empowers the Secretary of State, by order, to confer, remove or modify the National Crime Agency's counter-terrorism functions. To introduce a limit to the rate by which rent for high income local authority tenants can be increased, specifying that the rent shall not equate to more than 10 pence for each pound of a tenant's income above the minimum income threshold. To see details of a defeat, click the relevant line of the table and this will bring up a report showing the number of votes cast for and against, and lists of voters (in both cases broken down by party). To change the definition of a miscarriage of justice, for the purposes of compensation, to a situation in which a newly discovered fact would make a conviction impossible, rather than proving the innocence of the wrongly-convicted person. Track current bills, keep up with committees, watch live footage and follow topical issues. To require that an investigation takes place into the impact (on justice) of alternative business structures. Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL], To allow all building societies to transfer funds to a charity that will apply them in the local area where the building society operates, To add a clause on parliamentary accountability requiring the Treasury to lay any directions issued to a reclaim fund before parliament, and similarly any accounts or report from a reclaim fund. To replace the clause imposing a deadline for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens currently resident in the UK to apply for settled status, instead giving an automatic right, and ensuring they can receive physical documentation to prove their right of residence. Parliament and Brexit (UK in a Changing Europe Report), The Constitution Unit blog in 2020: the year in review. To require that certain conditions of consultation be met before the Secretary of State may make regulations adding, varying or removing a territory from a list of specified territories for the purposes of the new powers of arrest in the Bill. The vote, by 358 to 256, is the first Parliamentary defeat for the government’s Brexit bill. If you would like us to do so, please complete our mailing list form and ensure you check the Lords defeats box. Meg Russell at the Procedure Committee evidence session on procedure under coronavirus restrictions. To insert a clause requiring parliamentary approval of the outcome of negotiations between the UK and the EU, and specifying the conditions under which the government must follow directions from Parliament in negotiating the UK's relationship with the EU. To insert a clause exempting those making claims related to industrial respiratory diseases specifically from the obligation to use their damages to pay part of their legal fees. The column on the right shows the number of votes the government was beaten by. To allow local housing authorities in England to decide whether or not to charge an increased level of rent for high income tenants of social housing, rather than requiring them to do so. To ensure that regulations made under the bill do not prevent local planning authorities from requiring pre-commencement conditions that are otherwise in conformity with the existing National Planning Policy Framework. To insert a clause requiring secondary ticketing operators to be more transparent, including the provision of information concerning the name of the seller, the face value of the ticket, any age restrictions on the ticket, and details of the seat location. To insert a clause requiring that students at UK universities are not counted as long term migrants, and that non-UK citizens holding offers to study or to work as academic staff are not subject to more restrictive immigration rules than currently apply. To insert a clause to allow 16 and 17 year-olds to vote in the EU referendum. Braking the law: is there, and should there be, an executive veto over laws made by parliament? To provide that when the High Court makes a preliminary determination that a country with which the UK has signed a trade agreement has committed genocide, that trade agreement is revoked. To specify that a bank or building society "must use its knowledge of its accounts, its account holders and any other relevant matters in determining whether an account is dormant". To insert a clause requiring that a trade agreement with the EU should not create customs arrangements between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that include physical infrastructure related to, or a requirement for, customs checks or controls related to trade. To remove provision criminalising 'careless driving'. To move that a joint committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to report on the costs and implications for the UK of exiting the EU without a withdrawal agreement on 31 October 2019, and that the committee should report by 30 September 2019. To decline to consider the draft Regulations until the government reports a scheme for transitional protection for current low-income recipients of tax credits, responds to the analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and considers mitigating action. To allow local authorities to spend payments from selling social housing properties on building similar properties for rent purposes, provided that need is demonstrated, rather than transferring payments to the Secretary of State as provided in the bill. To insist to ask that the government, in securing best value for the NHS in purchasing medical supplies, considers supporting the UK life sciences sector, and ensuring access for patients to new medicines and treatments approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. To insert a clause requiring the Secretary of State to introduce a scheme to provide information about the quality of education and teaching provided by higher education institutions, replacing the proposed scheme to give ratings to such institutions. To insert a clause giving greater protection to overseas domestic workers, in particular allowing such workers to change employer. To remove a clause conferring the Secretary of State reserved powers to restrict facility time arrangements for trade union officials in public sector bodies. To insist for the second time that local authorities can make a case to the Secretary of State to retain and spend payments from selling social housing, to cover in each case at least one affordable home outside London, or at least two in London. The government has been dealt a major blow after the House of Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts and to compensate those affected in full. To insert a clause preventing owners of buildings from passing on costs of any work required by provisions of the Act to leaseholders and tenants of that building. To remove a provision that ministers could make regulations to prevent, remedy or mitigate deficiencies in retained EU law as they consider 'appropriate', and to specify instead that they may make such regulations where it is 'necessary'. To require the Secretary of State to make regulations to remove building owners' currently existing rights to change the use of, or to demolish, drinking establishments without seeking planning permission. To require the repayment of the 20% discount of market value applicable to starter homes, reduced by 1/20th for each year of occupation by the purchaser, for a period of 20 years. To include the Defence Fire and Rescue Service under the category of fire and rescue services generally, so that they are no longer subject to the separate Ministry of Defence retirement age and pension scheme. Paving amendment to require the government to produce and to present before parliament reports on nuclear safeguards and future arrangements with Euratom at the end of four successive reporting periods which will follow the passing of the Act. There are many more Lib Dem peers in the Lords (chosen by Nick Clegg during his time as Deputy PM), and many of them are responsible for some of the defeats. 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