division_name: Deferred Divisons &#8212; Clause 1 &#8212; Referendum on the alternative vote system
motion: <p class="" pid="b.1074.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move that this House insists on its disagreement with the Lords in their amendments 1 and 8, but proposes amendment (a) in lieu.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.1074.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Yesterday the House debated whether to oppose including in the Bill Lord Rooker's amendments specifying that if less than 40% of the electorate vote in the referendum the result should not be binding. We have accepted an amendment in lieu. We do not accept that there should be a threshold in the referendum, and the amendment does not propose one. It simply states that the Electoral Commission must publish information about the turnout. If we were simply to oppose Lord Rooker's threshold amendment again without this amendment, and were their Lordships to reject our position, the rules on double insistence would result in the loss of the Bill. We have tabled our amendment to avoid that eventuality.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1090.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 310, Noes 231.</p>