On 13th June 2023, the House of Lords debated a motion to approve the Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023. A vote was held on an amendment to the motion, in which a Bishop took part:
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The Bishop of Durham took part in a vote on a motion to regret tabled by Lord Coaker:
“Lord Coaker moved, as an amendment to the motion in the name of Lord Sharpe of Epsom, to leave out all the words after “that” and insert “while approving the draft Regulations laid before the House on 27 April, this House regrets that the Regulations propose as secondary legislation, which is subject to reduced scrutiny, measures that were recently rejected in primary legislation, and that His Majesty’s Government has not addressed the concerns raised in the House when the measures were in primary legislation, or undertaken a full public consultation on these controversial measures; and therefore calls on His Majesty’s Government to withdraw the Regulations”.”
The amendment was agreed. Content: 177 / Not Content: 141
The Bishop of Durham voted Content.
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