To require that one of the criteria defining the "public interest" (justifying the national identity register) is to prevent illegal and fraudulent acts. Click within the grid for more detail about a particular defeat. To require that the 4 Assembly members to sit on the Assembly Commission do not belong to the same political party. To insert a clause stipulating that "an apology, an offer of treatment or other redress" will not intrinsically amount to an admission of negligence or breach of statutory duty. To regret that the Order specifies that spent convictions and cautions will be disclosed to all future public inquiries, and to call on the government to respect protections afforded to offenders under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (non-fatal motion). 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'. The government has suffered a heavy defeat in the House of Lords over its controversial Brexit legislation. To insist for a second time on a previous amendment to extend the provisions of the bill so that it is applicable to those who are held in police custody. 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. Cases where the coalition partners whipped their parties to vote in opposite lobbies, and the division was therefore a defeat for one governing party and a victory for the other. To insert that the 'forum rules' (from the 1957 European Convention on Terrorism) are incorporated: judges shall not order the extradition of a person if an act was partly committed in the UK unless in the interests of justice. Including on rights of unaccompanied child refugees . To ensure that any regulations made towards decriminalising TV licence-fee evasion shall not take effect before 1 April 2017. 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 to prevent the scheme in the bill for rating the quality and standards of higher education institutions from being used to set course fees, or the number of fee paying students, that higher education institutions can recruit. 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 remove the power to make arrangements for the provision of probation services from the Secretary of State and give it to local probation boards and probation trusts. Click within the grid for more detail about a particular defeat. You may find some parts of this website argued to be government defeats. To insist to enable parish councils and neighbourhood forums to appeal against the granting of planning permission by local authorities for housing developments that conflict with existing neighbourhood plans, but conceding not to include emerging plans. To require all companies trading on a regulated. Parliaments and COVID-19: principles and practice; challenges and opportunities. To postpone the second reading of the bill until six months' time. To remove a clause that reduced the government’s obligations to seek an agreement with the EU on unaccompanied child refugees. To insert a clause incorporating provision for making changes to the NHS Constitution into the Bill in order to give Parliament a role in determining the principles of the NHS Constitution. How many times has the Government been defeated in the House of Lords this session? To make it a condition of enactment that the government should adopt a negotiating objective to achieve an international agreement enabling the UK to continue to participate in the European Economic Area after exit day. To omit the "Power of Secretary of State to require Registration" clause from the Bill so that in order to make the scheme compulsory, primary legislation would need to be introduced. government defeats in the House of Lords during the current parliamentary term. 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. Monday 05 October 2020 23:47. Kate Devlin. 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 insert a clause giving greater protection to overseas domestic workers, in particular allowing such workers to change employer. To commit the entire Bill to a committee of the whole House, rather than splitting it between the Chamber and Grand Committee. To require owners or managers of buildings containing two or more domestic premises to share information about their buildings with local Fire Services, share fire safety instructions with residents, and test entrance doors annually and lifts monthly. Book a school visit, classroom workshop or teacher-training session. 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 require that regulations under the bill should ensure flexible childcare for parents working outside the hours of 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and to ensure that childcare is made available during school holidays. To require that the Information Commissioner reports directly to Parliament rather than the Secretary of State. To expand the length of time between the first and second Boundary Commission reports in the bill from eight to ten years. The column on the right shows the number of votes the government was beaten by. 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. Any new law is first introduced as a bill, into either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. To require that ministers should seek approval by Parliament of a mandate to negotiate the UK's future relationship with the EU. To insist on original defeat giving judges the power of discretion in relation to the financing of applications for judicial review. To require the Secretary of State to lay proposals before parliament which would encourage the inclusion of 16- and 17-year olds on the electoral registers for the purposes of boundary reviews within a year of the Act coming into force. To require local authorities that propose a transport partnership scheme termed 'advanced quality partnership' under the bill to give notice to the representatives of any affected employees. This page lists all government defeats in the House of Lords since the start of the 2017-19 parliamentary session, in reverse order. To exclude staffing costs from the financial restrictions placed on third parties (i.e. 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 require the Lord Chancellor to ensure that the process for appointing the Director of Legal Aid Casework guarantees his or her independence. To require the government within six months to set an interim climate change target for 2030, including the role of agriculture and land use in reducing emissions, followed within 12 months by an implementation strategy. The Parliamentary Information List series covers various topics relating to Parliament; they include Bills, Committees, Constitution, Debates, Divisions, The House of Commons, Parliament and procedure. To insert a clause insuring that potential child victims of trafficking are appointed an independent guardian to look after their interests. To insert a clause at the start of the bill to define universities as autonomous institutions, and to outline their roles as promoters of academic freedom and freedom of speech and their contribution to society through teaching and research. You appear to have JavaScript disabled in your browser settings. The government has lost two more votes in the Lords over its Brexit bill. Click within the grid for more detail about a particular defeat. Number of defeats = 58 (as at 15 December 2020) List of Government defeats in previous sessions. To require that the government publish determinations of whether countries with which it has signed trade agreements have committed serious human rights violations, and whether those agreements comply with the UK’s international human rights obligations. 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). If you would like us to do so, please complete our mailing list form and ensure you check the Lords defeats box. To insist on previous amendment to prevent any female, or male under the age of fifteen, being placed in a secure college. To insert a clause enabling referendums to undo change to city governance arrangements. 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 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. (Amendment etc.) To require the government to lay before parliament a National Food Strategy, outlining its proposed steps to improve food production sustainability, support food production and consumption, and reduce obesity. To insert provisions to ensure that a person shall not be considered to have a mental disorder on the grounds of substance abuse, sexual identity or orientation, commission or likely commission of illegal or disorderly acts or cultural/religious beliefs. To require that probation trusts make appropriate provisions for female offenders, including unpaid work and behavioural change programmes. 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 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 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. 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 insist to require that an individual "may" not "must" apply to enter onto the National Register and obtain an ID card when applying for or renewing a passport. To retain civil legal advice for benefits claimants who wish to challenge cuts to their allowances at a second-tier tribunal or higher court. To set out that environmental and public health protections are public interest considerations that may allow derogations from the market access principles, but not to insist on removing powers that would allow ministers to set out other considerations. To insert a clause enabling local authorities to ringfence the spending of money received from speeding fines on local road safety measures. To insert a clause requiring the government to ensure that new heavy goods vehicles should be fitted with retroreflective tape. To insert a clause to require the Prime Minister to commission an independent inquiry into the operation of the police complaints system with respect to allegations of corrupt relationships between the police and newspaper organisations. 4) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020, Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill, Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill, Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [HL], Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL], European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, Freedom of Establishment and Free Movement of Services (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill, Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL], Children’s Homes etc. To insert a clause to include a duty that Ofsted takes into account the careers advice made available to students in carrying out inspections of further education colleges. To require the Lord Chancellor to ensure that victims of domestic violence have access to civil legal services, in accordance with the financial eligibility criteria laid out elsewhere in the Bill. To insist on previous amendment to ensure that night aircraft noise is controlled by a combination of a movements limit and a noise quota system (not just the latter). 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. This page lists all government defeats in the House of Lords since the start of the 2014-15 parliamentary session, in reverse order. Unit report: Braking the Law: Is There, and Should There Be, an Executive Veto Over Legislation in the UK Constitution? To insist that new renewables obligation certificates may be issued after the current termination date of 31 March 2016 for onshore wind generating stations that had received planning permission for up to three months after 18 June 2015. To require that any amendment to the Mayor's budget would not need a 2/3 majority (simple majority instead). To ensure the independence of the Charity Commission so that terms and conditions of staff, do not require the approval of the Secretary of State. To insert a clause requiring the Secretary of State to produce an annual report on devolution within England. 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 to require pub-owning businesses to offer a market rent only option to tied pub tenants, and to introduce rent assessments for tenants. To place the universal service obligation for broadband on the face of the bill, specifying targets for broadband connections and services, and requiring the government to prioritise SMEs and rural areas and to ensure mobile network coverage across the UK. To insert a clause introducing a licensing system for senior bankers. To provide that planning permission in principle should apply specifically to housing led development, rather than to general development of land, as the bill currently allows. Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. To insist on preventing ministers from using powers in the bill to override agreements to diverge from existing rules made through the common frameworks process, but for clarity to state that the purpose of a divergence is to give effect to an agreement. 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 remove provisions enabling ministers, after the UK has left the European Union, to specify through regulations where the validity of retained EU law may be challenged in court. To require that if regulations are used to change the legitimate aims set out in the Act that can override the non-discrimination principle, the Secretary of State obtain, or give reasons for the lack of, the consent of the devolved administrations. This page lists all government defeats in the House of Lords since the start of the 2016-17 parliamentary session, in reverse order. To ensure that EEA and Swiss citizens who are confirmed as victims of modern slavery have a statutory right to be considered for a 12-month grant of leave to remain with recourse to public funds if they meet certain criteria. 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