Government Defeats in the House of Lords, 2013–2014
This page lists Government Defeats in the House of Lords in the 2013–2014 parliamentary session.
The UK government was defeated 14 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2013-14. Below is an overview of these defeats, listed in chronological order. Clicking on a link will open a PDF that has more information about the defeat.
| Defeat no | Date | Bill | Subject | Majority |
| 14 | 7/04/14 | Immigration Bill | To insert a clause establishing a joint committee on the question of whether the Home Secretary should be able to remove an individual’s citizenship, if obtained by naturalisation, for reasons of the public good, even if this meant they would be stateless. | -62 |
| 13 | 7/04/14 | Immigration Bill | To insert a clause insuring that potential child victims of trafficking are appointed an independent guardian to look after their interests. | -98 |
| 12 | 24/02/14 | Pensions Bill | To enable the regulations to allow an individual to aggregate their income from two or more jobs within a year, in order to qualify for a state pension. | -5 |
| 11 | 29/01/14 | Children and Families Bill | To insert a clause enabling the Secretary of State to make it illegal for drivers to fail to prevent smoking in cars carrying children. | -25 |
| 10 | 22/01/14 | Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill | 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. | -23 |
| 9 | 21/01/14 | Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill | To exclude all activity that doesn’t directly target electors from the constituency spending limits imposed on third parties during election campaigns. | -26 |
| 8 | 15/01/14 | Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill | To exclude staffing costs from the financial restrictions placed on third parties (i.e. any organisation or individual that is not a political party or candidate) during election campaigns. | -43 |
| 7 | 13/01/14 | Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill | To include the lobbying of special advisers within the regulations. | -17 |
| 6 | 8/01/14 | Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill | To maintain the existing definition of anti-social behaviour and prevent it being widened to conduct that is ‘capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person’. | -128 |
| 5 | 17/12/13 | Children and Families Bill | To clarify that ‘involvement’ of each parent in the child’s life refers to involvement that specifically ‘promotes the welfare of the child’, and does not refer to ‘any particular division of a child’s time’. | -4 |
| 4 | 26/11/13 | Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill | To insert a clause introducing a licensing system for senior bankers. | -5 |
| 3 | 4/11/13 | Energy Bill | To ensure that the emissions limit duty applies to those fossil fuel plants that upgrade their systems to stay within the laws relating to pollution. | -44 |
| 2 | 16/10/13 | Care Bill [HL] | To insert a clause that would ensure that all providers of care are understood to be carrying out a public function and therefore covered by the Human Rights Act 1998. | -29 |
| 1 | 25/06/2013 | Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] | To insert a clause to prevent any “alteration or reform” being made to the “structure” of the probation service unless the plans are approved by both houses of parliament. | -29 |
