Government Defeats in the House of Lords, 2014–2015

This page lists Government Defeats in the House of Lords in the 2014–2015 parliamentary session.

The UK government was defeated 11 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2014-15. 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
11	25/02/15	Modern Slavery Bill	To insert a clause giving greater protection to overseas domestic workers, in particular allowing such workers to change employer.	-7
10	5/02/15	Deregulation Bill	To ensure that any regulations made towards decriminalising TV licence-fee evasion shall not take effect before 1 April 2017.	-3
9	9/12/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To insist on original defeat giving judges the power of discretion in relation to the financing of applications for judicial review.	-18
8	9/12/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To insist on original defeat giving judges the discretion to hear judicial review applications where the interests of the applicant have not been harmed by government conduct, but with the requirement that such discretion be in the public interest.	-69
7	9/12/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To insist on previous amendment to prevent any female, or male under the age of fifteen, being placed in a secure college.	-64
6	19/11/14	Consumer Rights Bill	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.	-12
5	27/10/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To give judges the discretion, in judicial review proceedings, over whether: ‘to order an intervener to pay the costs of a relevant party to the proceedings’, and ‘to order a relevant party to the proceedings to pay the intervener’s costs’.	-33
4	27/10/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To give judges the discretion to hear judicial review applications in cases where the applicant has failed to provide the financial information required.	-33
3	27/10/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To give judges the discretion to hear judicial review applications in cases where the interests of the applicant can be shown to have not been harmed by the government conduct in question.	-66
2	22/10/14	Criminal Justice and Courts Bill	To prevent any female, or male under the age of fifteen, being placed in a secure college.	-1
1	28/07/14	Motion regarding the Leader of the House of Lords	To regret the Prime Minister’s decision to ‘diminish the standing of the House’ by not making the Leader of the House of Lords a full member of the cabinet and ask that he ‘reconsiders this decision’.	-148

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