Monthly Commons digest
July 2025: the Commons month in review
Ayes and Noes · compiled from official UK Parliament data
Published 31 July 2025 2 min read
July 2025 remained turbulent before the summer recess: 25 divisions over eight sitting days, fifteen rejected and ten carried, with almost 11,000 votes cast.
Benefits was the most divided-on topic. Rebellions stayed elevated at 294 votes against party majorities — down from June's exceptional level, but still high by this Parliament's standards.
25
Divisions
10
Passed
15
Rejected
10,994
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
What was debated
Topics by number of divisions tagged (locally derived).
Rebellions
294 votes were cast against an MP's own party majority this month.
Largest rebellion — 49 MPs voted against their party majority
Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Second Reading
1 Jul 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
186 new Early Day Motions were tabled this month.
Most signed — 109 signatures
Loan Charge and settlement terms offered to large companies and individuals
EDM 1579 · tabled by Mr Angus MacDonald