Government Defeats in the House of Lords, 2021–2022
This page lists Government Defeats in the House of Lords in the 2021–2022 parliamentary session.
The UK government was defeated 128 times in the House of Lords during the parliamentary session of 2021-22. Below is an overview of these defeats, listed in reverse chronological order. Clicking on a link will open a PDF that has more information about the defeat.
| Defeat no | Date | Bill | Subject | Majority | |
| 128 | 26/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist (x2) on a clause requiring that asylum seekers resident for more than 6 months with no decision have a right to seek employment, but to allow this section to be removed by regulations after 2, not 3, years post-enactment. | -1 | 202122-defeat128.pdf |
| 127 | 26/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To not insist that the rights of both new categories of refugees be guaranteed without distinction, but to provide that Group 1 status be open to refugees who have stopped briefly in another country as well as those who have come directly to the UK. | -8 | 202122-defeat127.pdf |
| 126 | 26/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To not insist on stating that the asylum provisions comply with the UK’s refugee obligations, but to insert a clause requiring that the provisions be effected in a way compatible with the obligations and that courts declare if an action is not compatible. | -25 | 202122-defeat126.pdf |
| 125 | 25/04/2022 | Elections Bill | To remove a clause that would have required that the Electoral Commission must have regard to the government’s strategic and policy priorities relating to elections when carrying out its functions. | -66 | 202122-defeat125.pdf |
| 124 | 06/04/2022 | Elections Bill | To expand the list of specified documents that can be used under the Bill’s voter ID provisions to include non-photo ID documents such as birth or marriage certificates or financial documents. | -29 | 202122-defeat124.pdf |
| 123 | 05/04/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insist on removing a clause that would have meant local authority contributions to care costs do not count towards the cap on care costs, and insert a clause requiring regulations to set out how costs are determined, after pilot schemes have ended. | -9 | 202122-defeat123.pdf |
| 122 | 05/04/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To not insist on inserting a clause requiring that that procurement for the health service in England is consistent with the UK’s genocide convention obligations, but to insert a different clause requiring that procurement avoids modern slavery. | -42 | 202122-defeat122.pdf |
| 121 | 05/04/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To not insist on removing a clause that would give the government powers to intervene in the reconfiguration of NHS services, but to provide that the powers only be exercised by regulations, if in the best interest of patients. | -8 | 202122-defeat121.pdf |
| 120 | 05/04/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insist that the government publish every 3 years, not 2, independent, but not independently verified, assessments of current public health workforce numbers, and future numbers up to 15 years, but not 20, required to meet patients’ needs in England. | -36 | 202122-defeat120.pdf |
| 119 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on inserting a clause requiring confirmed modern slavery victims be granted at least a year’s leave to remain if necessary, but not insist on removing a clause allowing leave to be refused if their home state or another state can support them. | -1 | 202122-defeat119.pdf |
| 118 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on removing a clause and inserting one with more limited grounds on which possible survivors of modern slavery can removed, but to define, and give powers to expand the definition of, serious threats to public order which can justify removal. | -5 | 202122-defeat118.pdf |
| 117 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on removing provisions criminalising any attempt to knowingly help asylum seekers arrive in the UK, but to criminalise attempts to help without reasonable excuse, rather than for gain. | -21 | 202122-defeat117.pdf |
| 116 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on removing provisions that would have criminalised all arrival in the UK without valid clearance where previously only entry without valid clearance was criminal, but to criminalise arrival in the UK in breach of a deportation order. | -25 | 202122-defeat116.pdf |
| 115 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To not insist on a clause establishing a target of at least 10,000 for the number of refugees to be resettled in the UK each year, but to insert a clause requiring that the government publish an annual target. | -9 | 202122-defeat115.pdf |
| 114 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist that unaccompanied children, but not certain other people, be allowed to seek asylum in the UK if they have a close family member resident in the UK. | -37 | 202122-defeat114.pdf |
| 113 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To not insist on removing provisions that would allow removal of asylum seekers to third countries while their claim is pending, but to require that each state must be approved by regulations, the draft of which should include the cost of any arrangements. | -23 | 202122-defeat113.pdf |
| 112 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on a clause requiring that returns agreements be signed with safe third states before asylum claims by persons with connections to the safe states can be declared inadmissible, but to provide that the requirement ends 5 years after commencement. | -27 | 202122-defeat112.pdf |
| 111 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insist on a clause requiring that asylum seekers resident in the UK for more than 6 months without a decision on their status have a right to seek employment, but to allow this section to be removed by regulations no sooner than 3 years post-enactment. | -67 | 202122-defeat111.pdf |
| 110 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To not insist on removing a clause that would have created two different categories of refugees, but to require that the rights of both categories under international law be guaranteed without distinction between the two. | -43 | 202122-defeat110.pdf |
| 109 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause stating that the asylum provisions of the Bill are compliant with the UK’s international obligations to refugees, but not insist on a clause that the provisions be read as subject to these obligations. | -38 | 202122-defeat109.pdf |
| 108 | 04/04/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove subsections that would have retrospectively applied earlier deprivation of citizenship orders found to have been made unlawfully, but not insist on removing a clause allowing deprivation of citizenship without notice. | -44 | 202122-defeat108.pdf |
| 107 | 31/03/2022 | Judicial Review and Courts Bill | To insert a clause providing that bereaved family members be entitled to publicly funded legal representation at inquests when public bodies such as hospitals or the police are legally represented. | -14 | 202122-defeat107.pdf |
| 106 | 31/03/2022 | Judicial Review and Courts Bill | To remove a clause that would have abolished “Cart” judicial review (JR) and insert a clause limiting the right to appeal a Cart JR to the High Court, unless on a point of law of public importance with permission to appeal granted by the Supreme Court. | -14 | 202122-defeat106.pdf |
| 105 | 31/03/2022 | Judicial Review and Courts Bill | To remove a presumption that suspended or prospective-only quashing orders should be made if they are deemed to offer adequate redress in a case unless there is a good reason not to, in preference to an ordinary quashing order. | -24 | 202122-defeat105.pdf |
| 104 | 31/03/2022 | Judicial Review and Courts Bill | To remove provisions that would have allowed quashing orders to include conditions such that the order would have limited or no retrospective effects. | -5 | 202122-defeat104.pdf |
| 103 | 31/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insist (x2) on removing a clause that allowed conditions to be imposed on a “public assembly” if it produced serious noise disruption, but allow limits on timings (not date) of a public assembly and accept the government’s serious disruption definition. | -11 | 202122-defeat103.pdf |
| 102 | 31/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insist (x2) on removing powers that allowed conditions to be imposed on a “public procession” or one-person protest if it produced serious noise disruption, and insist on removing part of the definition of serious disruption including noise. | -39 | 202122-defeat102.pdf |
| 101 | 29/03/2022 | Building Safety Bill | To provide that leaseholders will be liable for no fire remediation costs. | -14 | 202122-defeat101.pdf |
| 100 | 29/03/2022 | Building Safety Bill | To provide that leaseholders who have collectively bought the freehold of their building are eligible for protection from remediation costs for building safety defects. | -32 | 202122-defeat100.pdf |
| 99 | 29/03/2022 | Building Safety Bill | To provide that leaseholders in buildings of all heights or numbers of storeys, not just those over 11 metres or 5 storeys, are eligible for protection from remediation costs for building safety defects. | -33 | 202122-defeat99.pdf |
| 98 | 29/03/2022 | Building Safety Bill | To provide that the regulator must publish an assessment of the costs and benefits of improving a range of issues related to building or people safety within 2 years of the Act passing, and may propose regulations to address these issues. | -35 | 202122-defeat98.pdf |
| 97 | 24/03/2022 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To insist on preventing the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education from withdrawing approval for level 3 courses, but only until 3, rather than 4, years after the bill has passed, with a consultation required in the fourth year. | -13 | 202122-defeat97.pdf |
| 96 | 22/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insist on removing a clause that would have allowed conditions to be imposed on a “public assembly” if it produced serious disruption caused by noise, but to detail disruptions to the life of the community that would allow conditions to imposed. | -15 | 202122-defeat96.pdf |
| 95 | 22/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insist on removing powers that would have allowed conditions to be imposed on a “public procession” or one-person protest if it produced serious disruption caused by noise, and to remove part of the new definition of serious disruption including noise. | -42 | 202122-defeat95.pdf |
| 94 | 22/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a clause creating a crime of sex or gender-aggravated intimidation, numbers of which must be recorded by police within 6 months of enactment, but not insist crimes motivated by sex or gender hostility be recorded and sentenced accordingly. | -43 | 202122-defeat94.pdf |
| 93 | 22/03/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insist on inserting a clause allowing ministers to extend investigatory search and seizure powers to officers of the National Food Crime Unit. | -24 | 202122-defeat93.pdf |
| 92 | 16/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a clause aiming to facilitate more effective dispute resolution and mediation between hospitals and parents when there is a difference of opinion between the two over the treatment of children with life-limiting illnesses. | -5 | 202122-defeat92.pdf |
| 91 | 16/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a clause prohibiting UK citizens from travelling abroad to receive organ donations in countries where the informed consent of the donor or their family is not required, or financial gain is offered for donation. | -44 | 202122-defeat91.pdf |
| 90 | 16/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a clause requiring that the government consult and report on the desirability of implementing a scheme to regulate prices that can be charged by, and profits that can be accrued by, tobacco manufacturers and importers. | -59 | 202122-defeat90.pdf |
| 89 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To provide that immigration rules may not require non- British and Irish citizens to make local journeys from the Republic of Ireland without the need for an electronic travel authorisation. | -34 | 202122-defeat89.pdf |
| 88 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause requiring that child potential and confirmed victims of modern slavery be given leave to remain, that their best interests be the primary consideration of decision makers, and that bill sections limiting victims’ rights do not apply. | -66 | 202122-defeat88.pdf |
| 87 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove a clause and insert a new one that requires leave to remain be granted for at least 12 months to confirmed victims of modern slavery if necessary for the purposes of providing continuing support and assistance. | -84 | 202122-defeat87.pdf |
| 86 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove a clause and insert a new one with more limited grounds on which the protected period for those whom it is deemed that there are reasonable grounds to believe are survivors of modern slavery can be broken for them to be removed from the UK. | -82 | 202122-defeat86.pdf |
| 85 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove a clause requiring that those deciding if there are reasonable grounds to believe a person is a survivor of modern slavery must consider late provision of information by the person, without good reason, as damaging of the person’s credibility. | -71 | 202122-defeat85.pdf |
| 84 | 08/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that age assessments of immigrants are only undertaken where there is significant reason to doubt the age of the age-disputed person, and that only methods approved by relevant medical boards may be used. | -70 | 202122-defeat84.pdf |
| 83 | 07/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a clause requiring that the government bring into force the cap on care charges set out in the Care Act 2014 by April 2023. | -44 | 202122-defeat83.pdf |
| 82 | 07/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To remove a clause that would have amended the Care Act 2014 so that local authority contributions to the cost of an individual’s care costs do not count towards the cap on care costs. | -40 | 202122-defeat82.pdf |
| 81 | 07/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To remove the exception for coroners from the prohibition on disclosure of protected material collected by the new Health Services Safety Investigations Body in the course of its investigations. | -41 | 202122-defeat81.pdf |
| 80 | 07/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To prevent the power to transfer functions between relevant bodies in the bill from transferring the statutory safe haven for patient data across health and social care to NHS England. | -38 | 202122-defeat80.pdf |
| 79 | 07/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a clause placing a duty on hospitals to ensure that carers of patients who are to be discharged are consulted on their ability and willingness to provide the care needed by the patient. | -50 | 202122-defeat79.pdf |
| 78 | 03/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that ministers ensure by regulations that procurement of all goods and services for the health service in England is consistent with the UK’s genocide convention obligations. | -19 | 202122-defeat78.pdf |
| 77 | 03/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To remove a clause that would have given the Secretary of State powers to intervene in the reconfiguration of NHS services. | -13 | 202122-defeat77.pdf |
| 76 | 03/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To require that the government publish independently verified assessments of current public health workforce numbers, and future numbers required to meet the needs of patients in England. | -52 | 202122-defeat76.pdf |
| 75 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To require that new powers to stop, board, divert or detain vessels suspected of being used to commit immigration offences must not be exercised in a way that could endanger life at sea. | -7 | 202122-defeat75.pdf |
| 74 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove provisions criminalising any attempt, not just attempts for gain, to knowingly help an asylum seeker arrive in the UK, other than those made by persons on behalf of organisations that aim to assist asylum seekers for free. | -2 | 202122-defeat74.pdf |
| 73 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove provisions that would have criminalised arrival in UK territory without valid clearance, where previously only entry (i.e. passing through immigration control at ports or disembarking from a plane) without valid clearance was criminal. | -5 | 202122-defeat73.pdf |
| 72 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause requiring that persons who are part of a group at risk of genocide must be presumed to meet the conditions for being granted asylum in the UK. | -52 | 202122-defeat72.pdf |
| 71 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause establishing a minimum target for the number of refugees to be resettled in the UK each year at 10,000. | -47 | 202122-defeat71.pdf |
| 70 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause requiring that the government allow unaccompanied children, and certain other people in Europe, to seek asylum in the UK if they have a close family member resident in the UK. | -48 | 202122-defeat70.pdf |
| 69 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove provisions that would have given the government powers to remove asylum seekers to a third country while their claim for asylum is pending in the UK. | -53 | 202122-defeat69.pdf |
| 68 | 02/03/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause providing that provisions in the Act allowing asylum claims made by persons with connections to a safe third state to be declared inadmissible can only come into force if the UK has signed returns agreements with 1 or more such states. | -49 | 202122-defeat68.pdf |
| 67 | 01/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To require that an integrated care board must include at least one ordinary member who has mental health knowledge and expertise in the board’s area. | -14 | 202122-defeat67.pdf |
| 66 | 01/03/2022 | Health and Care Bill | To provide that conflict of interest rules applicable to integrated care boards also apply to committees or sub-committees of boards that have commissioning functions. | -15 | 202122-defeat66.pdf |
| 65 | 28/02/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause requiring that asylum seekers resident in the UK for more than 6 months whose claims have not yet been decided have a right to seek employment. | -23 | 202122-defeat65.pdf |
| 64 | 28/02/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove a clause that would have created two different categories of refugees based on whether a refugee arrived in the UK directly from the country they were seeking refuge from, allowing these groups to be treated differently. | -78 | 202122-defeat64.pdf |
| 63 | 28/02/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause ensuring that the asylum provisions of the bill are read as subject to the UK’s international legal obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. | -79 | 202122-defeat63.pdf |
| 62 | 28/02/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To remove a clause that sought to allow individuals to be deprived of British citizenship without notice if there was a lack of information needed to give notice, it was not reasonably practicable on other grounds, or in the interests of national security. | -36 | 202122-defeat62.pdf |
| 61 | 28/02/2022 | Nationality and Borders Bill | To insert a clause allowing descendants of those born on the British Indian Overseas Territory to register as a British and British overseas territories citizen for free for up to 5 years, or before they reach 23 if a minor when the Act comes into force. | -83 | 202122-defeat61.pdf |
| 60 | 09/02/2022 | Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill | To require that the House of Commons must approve a motion agreeing that parliament should be dissolved, before a request can be made by the Prime Minister to do so. | -40 | 202122-defeat60.pdf |
| 59 | 07/02/2022 | National Insurance Contributions Bill | To provide that the time in which employers of new veterans are eligible for NIC relief may be extended by regulations beyond the 1 year after the veteran’s first day of employment set out in the bill, where it would improve employment and retention rates. | -22 | 202122-defeat59.pdf |
| 58 | 07/02/2022 | National Insurance Contributions Bill | To provide that the new form of national insurance contribution (NIC) relief in the bill will only be available to employers in a freeport if the freeport maintains a publicly accessible register of the beneficial owners of businesses in the freeport. | -16 | 202122-defeat58.pdf |
| 57 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a clause repealing the Vagrancy Act 1824, and establish that begging or sleeping rough independent of other factors does not constitute a criminal offence. | -43 | 202122-defeat57.pdf |
| 56 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have introduced serious disruption prevention orders, which could limit activities of those who have committed, or have not committed but have been connected to, protest-related offences or breaches of injunctions. | -75 | 202122-defeat56.pdf |
| 55 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have allowed constables to stop and search people or vehicles without grounds to suspect they would find an item used for or in connection with wilful obstruction of a highway or causing public nuisance. | -84 | 202122-defeat55.pdf |
| 54 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have allowed constables to stop and search people or vehicles if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they would find an item used for or in connection with wilful obstruction of a highway or causing public nuisance. | -64 | 202122-defeat54.pdf |
| 53 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have created an offence of interference with use or operation of key national infrastructure in England and Wales either intentionally or through recklessness, subject to defences of reasonable excuse or industrial action. | -45 | 202122-defeat53.pdf |
| 52 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have a created a new offence of obstruction or interference with the construction or maintenance of major transport works, subject to defences of reasonable excuse or industrial action. | -54 | 202122-defeat52.pdf |
| 51 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To restrict the new prison sentence for the offence of wilful obstruction so that it applies only to the obstruction of highways that form part of the Strategic Road Network. | -56 | 202122-defeat51.pdf |
| 50 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To not insert a clause that would have created a new offence of the attachment of one person to another, an object or to land (“locking on”), such as to cause serious disruption either intentionally or through recklessness. | -53 | 202122-defeat50.pdf |
| 49 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To permit the obstruction of vehicle access to areas of the Parliamentary Estate if a relevant person has given permission for the obstruction. | -78 | 202122-defeat49.pdf |
| 48 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To remove a clause that would have allowed a senior police officer to impose conditions on a “public assembly” if it produces noise that would cause serious disruption or have a significant impact on persons in the vicinity of the protest. | -67 | 202122-defeat48.pdf |
| 47 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To remove powers that would have allowed a senior police officer to impose conditions on a “public procession” if it produces noise that would cause serious disruption or have a significant impact on persons in the vicinity of the protest. | -95 | 202122-defeat47.pdf |
| 46 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a clause requiring the police to record if a crime is motivated by hostility towards the victim’s gender or sex, and requiring that the courts take this motivation into account when sentencing for offences that aren’t sexual or domestic. | -57 | 202122-defeat46.pdf |
| 45 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a clause establishing a duty of candour on members of the police workforce, in general and specifically in relation to their participation in court proceedings, official inquiries or investigations. | -73 | 202122-defeat45.pdf |
| 44 | 17/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a clause requiring the government to establish a review into the prevalence of the crime of administering a substance with intent (“spiking”), and the criminal justice system’s response to this crime, within a month of the bill being passed. | -47 | 202122-defeat44.pdf |
| 43 | 12/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a new clause allowing ministers to extend investigatory search and seizure powers to officers of the National Food Crime Unit. | -12 | 202122-defeat43.pdf |
| 42 | 12/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a new clause allowing local authorities to make fast-track public space protection orders for schools or vaccination centres that are subject to harassment or detrimental protest, which can come into force before a statutory consultation is held. | -12 | 202122-defeat42.pdf |
| 41 | 12/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To insert a new clause creating an offence of requiring or accepting sexual relations as a condition of access to accommodation. | -30 | 202122-defeat41.pdf |
| 40 | 10/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To expand the conditions necessary for serious violence reduction orders to be introduced (further amendments passed without division required a stronger pilot, a report on that pilot, and that both Houses approve commencement regulations). | -37 | 202122-defeat40.pdf |
| 39 | 10/01/2022 | Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | To provide that a local authority may set up and run a new secure 16 to 19 academy. | -35 | 202122-defeat39.pdf |
| 38 | 14/12/2021 | Advanced Research and Innovation Agency Bill | To provide that ARIA financial support for a business can be conditional on being able to convert support into equity or on ARIA consent to any transfer outside the UK of intellectual property or a controlling interest for 10 years after receiving funding. | -13 | 202122-defeat38.pdf |
| 37 | 08/12/2021 | Armed Forces Bill | To not insist central government has due regard to the Armed Forces covenant when exercising housing, education and health functions, but require that the government reports to parliament the impact of not applying the due regard standard within 6 months. | -42 | 202122-defeat37.pdf |
| 36 | 08/12/2021 | Armed Forces Bill | To insist that for murder, manslaughter, rape or other sexual offences, those normally subject to service law should be tried in civilian courts, but to allow the DPP, not the AG, to direct otherwise for other reasons as well as service-related complexity. | -22 | 202122-defeat36.pdf |
| 35 | 23/11/2021 | Armed Forces Bill | To require that central government must have due regard to the Armed Forces covenant when exercising relevant housing, education and health functions. | -46 | 202122-defeat35.pdf |
| 34 | 23/11/2021 | Armed Forces Bill | To provide that for murder, manslaughter, rape or other sexual offences, persons who would normally be subject to service law should be tried in civilian courts, unless the Attorney General consents to otherwise for reasons of service-related complexity. | -20 | 202122-defeat34.pdf |
| 33 | 16/11/2021 | Dormant Assets Bill [HL] | To provide that the Secretary of State may, in England, establish community wealth funds that can receive money from dormant assets, and provide that if a fund is established, after at least 10 years its efficacy may be reviewed. | -21 | 202122-defeat33.pdf |
| 32 | 02/11/2021 | Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill | To remove provisions that would break the earnings link in the pensions ‘triple lock’ for tax year 2022-23, instead providing that the Secretary of State can adjust the relevant earnings level to take into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. | -42 | 202122-defeat32.pdf |
| 31 | 26/10/2021 | Environment Bill | To insist on imposing duties on sewerage undertakers to improve sewerage systems and to reduce harms from untreated discharges into inland and coastal, but not all, waters, and to insist that the government secure compliance with these duties. | -143 | 202122-defeat31.pdf |
| 30 | 26/10/2021 | Environment Bill | To insist on replacing limits on the courts’ powers to grant a remedy where a public authority is found to be in breach of environmental law, but to expand the potential consequences courts will be required to have regard to when granting such a remedy. | -35 | 202122-defeat30.pdf |
| 29 | 26/10/2021 | Environment Bill | To insist on requiring Commons committee approval of Office for Environmental Protection board appointments and not insist on giving the OEP complete discretion regarding its enforcement power, but to limit guidance the government can issue in that area. | -51 | 202122-defeat29.pdf |
| 28 | 21/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To insert a new clause providing that any person of any age have the right to free education up to Level 3 if they have not studied at that level, and requiring that employers spend apprenticeship funding on Level 2 and 3 students aged 16-25. | -10 | 202122-defeat28.pdf |
| 27 | 21/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To require that initial teacher training for further education courses include special educational needs awareness training relevant to teaching in a further education environment. | -32 | 202122-defeat27.pdf |
| 26 | 21/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To insert a new clause requiring the government to annually report the impact on the overall level of skills of restricting funding for individuals pursuing further or higher education courses at the same or lower level than one they already hold. | -10 | 202122-defeat26.pdf |
| 25 | 21/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To insert a new clause requiring the government to review universal credit (UC) with the aim of ensuring that students will remain entitled to UC if they enrol on approved training courses aimed at supporting them to secure employment. | -16 | 202122-defeat25.pdf |
| 24 | 21/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To require that schools provide at least 3 occasions, rather than 1, during each of 3 phases of secondary education for pupils to meet technical education and apprenticeship providers, and to bring the requirement into force when the bill is passed. | -50 | 202122-defeat24.pdf |
| 23 | 19/10/2021 | Telecommunications (Security) Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that the government reviews the UK’s security arrangements with a telecommunications company if that company is banned from operating in another Five Eyes country. | -16 | 202122-defeat23.pdf |
| 22 | 19/10/2021 | Telecommunications (Security) Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that the government reports to parliament the impact of its diversification of telecommunications supply chains strategy on network security and services, and provides a debate on the report in the House of Commons. | -4 | 202122-defeat22.pdf |
| 21 | 12/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To ensure that students will not be deprived of the right to take other qualifications additional to A and T levels. | -19 | 202122-defeat21.pdf |
| 20 | 12/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To prevent the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education from withdrawing approval of BTEC and other level 3 courses before 2025 to allow new T level courses to become embedded and understood. | -5 | 202122-defeat20.pdf |
| 19 | 12/10/2021 | Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] | To require that new local skills improvement plans be developed in partnership with local authorities and further education providers, not just by employer representative bodies. | -7 | 202122-defeat19.pdf |
| 18 | 15/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To require that the conservation covenants introduced in the bill are executed by deeds containing details about duration and any payment of consideration to the landowner. | -18 | 202122-defeat18.pdf |
| 17 | 15/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To require that the government review the effectiveness of provisions in the bill to reduce deforestation related to production of commodities within 1 to 2 years of the provisions coming into force. | -6 | 202122-defeat17.pdf |
| 16 | 15/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To insert a new clause establishing an enhanced protection standard for ancient woodland to be used in planning policy. | -4 | 202122-defeat16.pdf |
| 15 | 15/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that any changes to the Habitat Regulations 2017 made using new powers in the bill maintain existing levels of environmental protection and are made following consultation. | -15 | 202122-defeat15.pdf |
| 14 | 13/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To impose a duty on sewerage undertakers to improve sewage systems and reduce untreated discharges and require the government and other agencies to secure compliance with that duty. | -37 | 202122-defeat14.pdf |
| 13 | 13/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that the long-term impact on honey bees and long- and short-term impact on wild pollinators be considered as part of the process for authorising the use of pesticides. | -12 | 202122-defeat13.pdf |
| 12 | 13/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To expand the power to implement charges for single-use plastic in the bill to other single-use materials. | -36 | 202122-defeat12.pdf |
| 11 | 08/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To replace restrictions on courts’ powers to grant a remedy where a public authority is found to be in breach of environmental law with a requirement that courts should have regard to the potential consequences of granting such a remedy. | -10 | 202122-defeat11.pdf |
| 10 | 08/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To remove a clause allowing the Secretary of State to issue guidance to the OEP regarding its enforcement powers and insert a clause giving the OEP complete discretion in that area and requiring Commons committee approval for OEP board member appointments. | -29 | 202122-defeat10.pdf |
| 9 | 08/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To remove the exceptions for defence, national security, and fiscal policy from the requirement that ministers consider the environmental principles policy statement provided for in the bill when making policy. | -2 | 202122-defeat9.pdf |
| 8 | 08/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To require that interim, as well as long-term, environmental targets be met. | -22 | 202122-defeat8.pdf |
| 7 | 06/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To require that the new legal target for particulate matter levels is set at least as low as the World Health Organisation-recommended limit, and has an attainment deadline of 2030. | -22 | 202122-defeat7.pdf |
| 6 | 06/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To add soil health and quality to the bill’s list of priority areas for which the government must set long-term environmental targets. | -43 | 202122-defeat6.pdf |
| 5 | 06/09/2021 | Environment Bill | To insert a new clause requiring that the government declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. | -30 | 202122-defeat5.pdf |
| 4 | 20/07/2021 | Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 | To regret that the regulations include no operational guidance or impact assessment regarding the new requirement that care workers be fully vaccinated, and calls for more evidence for permanently requiring staff to be fully vaccinated (non-fatal motion). | -10 | 202122-defeat4.pdf |
| 3 | 20/07/2021 | Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL] | To insert a clause requiring landlords to inform tenants of changes to ground rents made by the Act if they enter into renegotiation or extension of an existing lease before the relevant implementing regulations have been brought into force. | -5 | 202122-defeat3.pdf |
| 2 | 14/07/2021 | Business and Planning Act 2020 (Pavement Licences) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | To regret that the regulations do not prohibit smoking in temporary outdoor seating areas of hospitality venues (non-fatal motion). | -30 | 202122-defeat2.pdf |
| 1 | 10/06/2021 | Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021 | To regret that the regulations allow some buildings to be changed more easily from business to residential use without local authority permission, and that the changes are being made by regulations instead of primary legislation (non-fatal motion). | -31 | 202122-defeat1.pdf |