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