Stephen Tall

The BBC reports the result of tonight’s defeat for the Coalition in the House of Lords over the controversial government plans to introduce a £500 a week benefit cap:

The government has been defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap. Lib Dem, Labour and crossbench peers backed a bishop’s amendment by 252 to 237 that child benefit should not be included in the cap. Critics argued that imposing the same cap on all families, regardless of size, would penalise children. The government said it was “very disappointed” and the vote “clearly flies in the face of public opinion”.

Lib Dem peers split 26 in favour of the amendment (and therefore against the Coalition) and 39 against the amendment (and therefore backing the Coalition position).

Here’s the named vote…

Lib Dem peers who voted for the amendment:

Allan of Hallam, Lord
Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Lord
Avebury, Lord
Benjamin, Baroness
Cotter, Lord
Doocey, Baroness
Dykes, Lord
Greaves, Lord
Harris of Richmond, Baroness
Hussain, Lord
Hussein-Ece, Baroness
Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Lord
Macdonald of River Glaven, Lord
Maclennan of Rogart, Lord
Miller of Chilthorne Domer, Baroness
Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, Lord
Redesdale, Lord
Roberts of Llandudno, Lord
Smith of Clifton, Lord
Taylor of Goss Moor, Lord
Thomas of Winchester, Baroness
Tonge, Baroness
Tyler of Enfield, Baroness
Tyler, Lord
Walmsley, Baroness
Williams of Crosby, Baroness

Lib Dem peers who voted against the amendment:

Addington, Lord
Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Baroness
Brinton, Baroness
Burnett, Lord
Carlile of Berriew, Lord
Clement-Jones, Lord
Dholakia, Lord
Falkner of Margravine, Baroness
Garden of Frognal, Baroness
German, Lord
Goodhart, Lord
Jolly, Baroness
Kramer, Baroness
Lee of Trafford, Lord
Lester of Herne Hill, Lord
Loomba, Lord
Maddock, Baroness
Marks of Henley-on-Thames, Lord
McNally, Lord
Newby, Lord
Northover, Baroness
Randerson, Baroness
Razzall, Lord
Rennard, Lord
Rodgers of Quarry Bank, Lord
Scott of Needham Market, Baroness
Sharkey, Lord
Sharp of Guildford, Baroness
Shipley, Lord
Shutt of Greetland, Lord
Stoneham of Droxford, Lord
Strasburger, Lord
Taverne, Lord
Teverson, Lord
Thomas of Gresford, Lord
Tope, Lord
Tordoff, Lord
Wallace of Saltaire, Lord
Wallace of Tankerness, Lord

* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and also writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.