Government Defeats in the House of Lords, 2005–2006

This page lists Government Defeats in the House of Lords in the 2005–2006 parliamentary session.

The UK government was defeated 61 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2005-06. Below is an overview of these defeats, listed in chronological order. Clicking on the link will open a PDF that has more information about the defeat.

Defeat no	Date	Bill	Subject	Majority
1	12/10/2005	Charities Bill	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.	-32
2	17/10/2005	Criminal Defence Service Bill [HL]	To remove exemptions from receiving legal aid.	-8
3	25/10/2005	Racial and Religious Hatred Bill	To restrict the grounds on which incitement to religious hatred could be applied.	-149
4	09/11/2005	Equality Bill [HL]	To remove a clause stipulating that harassment 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.	-90
5	14/11/2005	Licensing Act 2003, Order 2005	To ask the government to remove the order so that it may be considered instead on 30 June 2006 allowing more time to address public concerns about its effects.	-33
6	16/11/2005	Identity Cards Bill	To require that only people or organisations “who reasonably require proof” should be entitled to ask for verification of identity.	-14
7	22/11/2005	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insert a clause enabling local authorities to ringfence the spending of money received from speeding fines on local road safety measures.	-41
8	22/11/2005	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insert a clause requiring the government to ensure that new heavy goods vehicles should be fitted with retroreflective tape.	-17
9	29/11/2005	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To remove a clause requiring the compulsory surrender of old form driving licenses.	-8
10	29/11/2005	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insert a clause ensuring that where there is a proposed development to alter/introduce level crossings, that the local planning authority is required to consult with the Secretary of State, rail safety authority and operator of the network.	-29
11	10/01/2006	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To remove provision criminalising ‘careless driving’.	-6
12	16/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that the bill cannot come into effect until a report has been conducted into the costs and benefits of the scheme.	-81
13	16/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To ensure that the same characteristics of security and reliability for the ascertainment and verification of registrable facts should apply to the recording and storage of the registrable facts.	-62
14	16/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that one of the criteria defining the “public interest” (justifying the national identity register) is to prevent illegal and fraudulent acts.	-53
15	17/01/2006	Terrorism Bill	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.	-100
16	17/01/2006	Terrorism Bill	To omit a clause criminalising the “glorification” of terrorism.	-126
17	23/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that an individual “may” not “must” apply to enter onto the National Register and obtain an ID card when applying/renewing a passport.	-44
18	23/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	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.	-58
19	30/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that the Information Commissioner is appointed by the crown “on the recommendation of the Secretary of State” as opposed to the Secretary of State alone.	-17
20	30/01/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that the Information Commissioner reports directly to Parliament rather than the Secretary of State.	-6
21	01/02/2006	Terrorism Bill	To require judicial oversight in issuing notices ordering internet service providers to remove offending material (“unlawfully terrorism-related”) within 2 days.	-1
22	15/02/2006	NHS Redress Bill [HL]	To confine redress investigations to “investigation of the facts of cases and not to consider the issues of liability in tort”.	-1
23	28/02/2006	Terrorism Bill	To remove all references to “glorification” from the Bill.	-4
24	06/03/2006	Identity Cards Bill	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.	-61
25	07/03/2006	Compensation Bill [HL]	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.	-13
26	08/03/2006	Civil Aviation Bill	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.	-13
27	08/03/2006	Civil Aviation Bill	To ensure that night aircraft noise is controlled by a combination of a movements limit and a noise quota system (rather than only the latter).	-40
28	15/03/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To insist for the second time 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.	-35
29	20/03/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To insist for the third time 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 but only until 2011.	-36
30	28/03/2006	Identity Cards Bill	To require that until 2010, anyone applying for a passport, can opt to have their name entered in the register and obtain an ID card unless they state that they do not wish to apply.	-28
31	19/04/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To remove subsections preventing constituency members from standing in regional lists and vice-versa.	-19
32	24/04/2006	National Lottery Bill	To remove the power of the Secretary of State to “prescribe” how the whole of the 50% of lottery distribution (going to the Big Lottery Fund) should be spent.	-2
33	09/05/2006	Company Law Reform Bill [HL]	To require all companies trading on a regulated market to give members the right to receive information such as annual/interim accounts, notice of meetings and the ability to exercise a vote on the shares they own.	-7
34	10/05/2006	Company Law Reform Bill [HL]	To require that an independent examiner, rather than an accountant, fulfil the audit requirements.	-22
35*	10/05/2006	Company Law Reform Bill [HL]	To require that an independent commissioner decides if it is in the public interest that certain information may be disclosed.	-6
36	17/05/2006	Violent Crime Reduction Bill	To require that a local authority may not make an order designating a locality as an alcohol disorder zone if an action plan is being put into effect.	-4
37	23/05/2006	Company Law Reform Bill [HL]	To require that the Freedom of Information Act applies to the Independent Supervisor, who supervises the performance of each Auditor General in his/her capacity as a statutory auditor.	-22
38	23/05/2006	Company Law Reform Bill [HL]	To omit a clause allowing the public disclosure of information on the exercise of voting rights within a company.	-6
39	07/06/2006	Electoral Administration Bill	To insert a clause requiring a signature and date of birth to be included in all voters’ registration and not only in that of postal voters.	-23
40	20/06/2006	Electoral Administration Bill	To insist on previous amendment to insert a clause requiring a signature and date of birth to be included in all voters’ registration, but substituting “chief electoral officer” for “electoral registration officer”.	-9
41	20/06/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To insert a clause ensuring that the Secretary of State cannot merge police forces without the consent of the relevant police authorities.	-68
42	27/06/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To require that the 4 Assembly members to sit on the Assembly Commission do not belong to the same political party.	-61
43	27/06/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To require that standing orders apportioning members to committees and sub-committees, must have regard to “the balance of political parties represented in the Assembly”.	-50
44	27/06/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To rename the Audit Committee the “Accounts Committee”.	-28
45	28/06/2006	Civil Aviation Bill	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.	-28
46	28/06/2006	Civil Aviation 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).	-57
47	11/07/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To remove the US from being granted a lower threshold of evidence in order to extradite until the Treaty has been ratified.	-102
48	11/07/2006	Police and Justice Bill	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.	-83
49	13/07/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To require that Orders in Council can only have retrospective effect where it is “not to the detriment of those who have either benefited from or acted in reliance upon the state of the law before the retrospective Order is made”.	-4
50	13/07/2006	Government of Wales Bill	To remove a subsection allowing the Secretary of State to veto the Assembly’s request for a referendum.	-37
51	13/07/2006	Northern Ireland (Misc. Provisions) Bill	To remove a clause that would allow the acceptance of political donations from anybody holding Irish citizenship (outside of Northern Ireland).	-37
52	13/07/2006	Northern Ireland (Misc. Provisions)	To insert a clause introducing new scrutiny measures for Orders in Council: a draft must be laid before each House of Parliament for approval and may suggest and make amendments.	-35
53	09/10/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To remove clauses giving the Secretary of State the power to direct if a police force is failing (given the absence of any objective judgment of failure).	-19
54	10/10/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To delete a clause that reforms conditional cautions to allow punishments, including fines, to be part of the conditions.	-61
55	10/10/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To insist that the Freedom of Information Act should apply to the new oversight bodies created under the bill.	-113
56	25/10/2006	NHS Redress Bill [HL]	To require that investigations under the redress scheme must be conducted “in accordance with natural justice [so] the person overseeing the investigation is independent of the body … under investigation” and to insist that it be “confined to the facts”.	-16
57	01/11/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To insist to remove the US from being granted a lower threshold of evidence in order to extradite until the Treaty has been ratified.	-37
58	01/11/2006	Police and Justice Bill	To insist 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.	-33
59	01/11/2006	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insist to insert a clause at the beginning of the bill enabling local authorities to ringfence the spending of money (received from speeding fines) on local road safety measures.	-28
60	01/11/2006	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insist to insert a clause requiring the government to ensure that new heavy goods vehicles should be fitted with retro-reflective tape but that the government should make regulations by 31st December 2007.	-16
61	01/11/2006	Road Safety Bill [HL]	To insist to remove provision criminalising ‘careless driving’.	-15
62	02/11/2006	Companies Bill [HL]	To insist that the Freedom of Information Act should apply to the new oversight bodies created under the bill.	-12

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