English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Motion relating to Lords Amendments 36, 90 and 155

Parliament voted on 27 April 2026 to pass a government motion relating to Lords Amendments 36, 90 and 155 to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. The motion passed by 270 votes to 170. The result means the Commons either rejected or modified those Lords amendments, continuing a pattern of the elected chamber pushing back against changes made in the upper house during what is known as "ping-pong," the back-and-forth stage when the two chambers negotiate the final text of a bill. The vote is part of the final legislative stages of a bill designed to reshape how power is distributed across England, giving new or expanded authorities to mayors, combined authorities and local councils. Lords Amendments 36, 90 and 155 represented attempts by the House of Lords to alter specific provisions in the bill. By voting down or amending those changes, the Commons advanced the government's preferred version of the devolution framework, which affects councils, mayors and communities across England. All 267 Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs who voted backed the government motion, with no Labour rebels recorded. Against the motion were 96 Conservatives, 56 Liberal Democrats, 5 Greens, 4 Democratic Unionist Party members and a handful of independents, forming a cross-party bloc of opposition united in supporting the Lords' position. The vote sits within a cluster of similar divisions on the same day, all showing near-identical margins, suggesting a coordinated and contested final passage of the bill through ping-pong, with opposition parties consistently backing the Lords' amendments against a government that held firm with its Commons majority.