Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: motion relating to Lords Amendment 106

**What happened:** On 15 April 2026, the House of Commons voted 248 to 139 to reject Lords Amendment 106 to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. This was one of several votes held on the same day in which MPs considered changes that the House of Lords had made to the Bill during its passage through the upper chamber. By voting Aye, MPs backed the government's position to disagree with the Lords' modification and remove it from the legislation. **Why it matters:** The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is wide-ranging legislation covering child welfare, school standards, and related education policy. Lords Amendment 106 represented a change that peers in the upper chamber had inserted into the Bill, and the Commons vote to reject it means that amendment will not form part of the final legislation unless further negotiation between the two chambers produces a compromise. The practical effect depends on the specific content of Amendment 106, but the outcome confirms the government's preferred version of the Bill on that particular point will prevail. **The politics:** The vote divided almost entirely along government versus opposition lines. Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs provided virtually all of the 248 Aye votes, with one independent also voting in favour. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens, and smaller parties made up the bulk of the 139 Noes, backing the Lords' position. Four Labour MPs voted against the government. The same day saw three other related divisions on Lords amendments to the same Bill, all of which the government won by similar margins, suggesting a coordinated Commons push to reassert the government's original intentions across multiple contested clauses.