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Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts

Monday 12th January 2026 Lords Chamber

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Pitkeathley) (Lab)]

The Question is that the original Motion, as amended, be agreed to.

[Noble Lords]

Content.

[Noble Lords]

Not content.

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Pitkeathley) (Lab)]

I am informed that I should take the voices again. The Question is that the original Motion, as amended, be agreed to.

[Noble Lords]

Content.

[Noble Lords]

Not content.

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Pitkeathley) (Lab)]

I called the original Motion, as amended, as a result of the vote that your Lordships have just taken part in. I will take the voices again. The Question is that the original Motion, as amended, be agreed to.

[Noble Lords]

Content.

[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Chief Whip (Lord Kennedy of Southwark) (Lab Co-op)]

The Opposition have put their amendment to the House and it has been carried. They are now going to vote against the Motion that they have just won on. I do not understand that at all. It seems to me that the normal thing is that, when a regret amendment is won, the Motion is amended and then the House approves the Motion as amended. We have tried to do that three times.

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Pitkeathley) (Lab)]

My Lords, I will try putting the Question once again. The Question is that the original Motion, as amended, be agreed to.

Motion, as amended, agreed.