Universal Credit Act 2025

UK Parliament · Public Bill · No. 3988
Universal Credit Act 2025
[As Introduced]
A
BILL
to
Make provision to alter the rates of the standard allowance, limited capability for work element and limited capability for work and work-related activity element of universal credit and the rates of income-related employment and support allowance.
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Presented by Liz Kendall
supported by Baroness Sherlock.
✓ Passed into lawPublicCommonsRoyal Assent

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Open Govt visitors' votes620 votes

44% Aye · 27556% No · 345

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MPs' votePassed without division

No division called, Third Reading carried on the voices.

How the Lords voted

1 formal vote in the House of Lords on this bill, newest first.

These are the occasions when peers formally divided and every vote was recorded. Most decisions in the Lords, including on many amendments, are agreed without a recorded vote, so they do not appear here.

22 July 2025Government won
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle moved, as an amendment to the motion that the bill be now read a second time, at end to insert “but regrets the impact of the Bill, particularly with regard to age discrimination, the impact on people with high levels of need and mental health conditions, and the overall impact on rates and severity of poverty among people with disabilities, and notes the human rights concerns expressed by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”
Peers' vote137 peers
Content · 17Not content · 120
Labour 0 content, 116 not content · Liberal Democrat 9 content, 0 not content · Conservative 0 content, 3 not content · Crossbench 3 content, 0 not content · Green Party 2 content, 0 not content · Bishops 0 content, 1 not content · Democratic Unionist Party 1 content, 0 not content · Non-affiliated 1 content, 0 not content · Plaid Cymru 1 content, 0 not content

Lords votes last updated 17 October 2026. Source: UK Parliament Lords Votes API.