Monthly Commons digest
December 2025: the Commons month in review
Ayes and Noes · compiled from official UK Parliament data
Published 31 December 2025 2 min read
December 2025 held 26 divisions over eight sitting days before the Christmas recess — seventeen carried, eight rejected and one tied — with nearly 12,000 votes cast.
Tax was again the leading subject. Rebellions were minimal, at eight votes against a party majority.
26
Divisions
17
Passed
8
Rejected
11,957
Votes cast
Activity through the month
Recorded divisions per sitting day (hover a bar for the date).
Bars show sitting days on which the Commons divided; the axis numbers are divisions held.
Notable divisions
Closest result — passed by 145 votes
Budget Resolution No. 50: Inheritance tax (limiting agricultural and business property reliefs etc)
2 Dec 2025 · Ayes 327 / Noes 182
Largest rebellion — 3 MPs voted against their party majority
UK-EU customs union (duty to negotiate): Ten Minute Rule Motion
9 Dec 2025 · Ayes 100 / Noes 100
What was debated
Topics by number of divisions tagged (locally derived).
Rebellions
8 votes were cast against an MP's own party majority this month.
Largest rebellion — 3 MPs voted against their party majority
UK-EU customs union (duty to negotiate): Ten Minute Rule Motion
9 Dec 2025
Most active MPs
By recorded votes cast this month (a participation measure, not a judgement of effectiveness). Party shown as at the time.
Early Day Motions
154 new Early Day Motions were tabled this month.
Most signed — 101 signatures
UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons
EDM 2532 · tabled by Steve Darling