asked the Chairman of Committees:

What action he will take to ensure the Minutes of Proceedings replicate the Official Report and indent on Division lists the second line of Peers' titles, including descriptive suffixes where applicable, where a title is too long to be accommodated on one line. [HL3389]

Although the Minutes of Proceedings and the Official Report derive lists of names of those voting in Divisions from the same database, the two documents are produced independently, using different templates.

The columns used in Division lists in the Minutes of Proceedings are significantly wider than those used in the Official Report. As a result, very few Members' names run over two lines. In the lists of those voting in the four Divisions held on 30 April, for instance, only one name (that of “B. Ashton of Upholland [Lord President]”) runs onto a second line.

The templates for the Minutes of Proceedings were substantially revised in late 2006. The new format had previously been subject to detailed scrutiny before being approved by the Procedure Committee (see the Committee's 5th Report, Session 2005-06).

In light of these considerations, I have no plans at this time to propose any further changes to the format of the Minutes of Proceedings.