Votes · July 2025 · Universal Credit Act 2025 · Third reading

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Third Reading: how MPs voted on 9 July 2025

Division 265, 9 July 2025, 19:39. The Commons Votes API gives 336 Ayes, 242 Noes: majority 94 for the Ayes.

The question

Schedule 2

Northern Ireland: corresponding provision

Amendments made: 6, page 10, line 33, leave out “paragraph 3” and insert “paragraphs 2A and 3”.

This amendment provides for definitions relating to tax years to apply for the purposes of the paragraph of Schedule 2 to be inserted by Amendment 8.

Amendment 7, page 12, line 1, leave out sub-paragraph (5) and insert—

“(5) In the table in regulation 38 (amounts of elements)—

(a) before the row showing the amount for limited capability for work and work-related activity (“the existing row”) insert—

“claimant with limited capability for work and work-related activity, other than a pre-2026 claimant, a severe conditions criteria claimant or a claimant who is terminally ill£217.26”;

(b) in the existing row, for “limited capability for work and work-related activity” substitute “pre-2026 claimant, severe conditions criteria claimant or claimant who is terminally ill”.”

This amendment is a technical change designed to support the operation of the new duty of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland (see amendment 8) to secure that Universal Credit for LCWRA claimants who are existing claimants, meet the severe conditions criteria or are terminally ill increases in line with inflation.

Amendment 8, page 14, line 27, at end insert—

“Protected LCWRA amount for tax years 2026-27 to 2029-30

2A (1) Where it is necessary in order to achieve the result in sub-paragraph (2) for any of the tax years 2026-27 to 2029-30, the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland must exercise the power in Article 14(2) or 17(3) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 to increase—

(a) the protected LCWRA amount for that tax year, or

(b) any amount of the standard allowance for that tax year.

(2) The result to be achieved for a tax year (“the current tax year”) is that for each combination of the protected LCWRA amount and an amount of the standard allowance, the sum of those amounts for the current tax year is at least (in each case) the amount given by increasing—

(a) the sum of those amounts for the previous tax year, by

(b) the relevant CPI percentage for the current tax year.

(3) In this paragraph—

(a) “the protected LCWRA amount” means the amount of the LCWRA element that applies to a pre-2026 claimant, a severe conditions criteria claimant or a claimant who is terminally ill (within the meanings of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016);

(b) “the LCWRA element” has the meaning given by regulation 28 of those …

As printed in Hansard before the division.

By party

Labour MPs cast 333 of the 336 named Aye votes; Conservative MPs 91 of the 242 named No votes.

Tellers: Anna Turley (Labour, Redcar) and Anna McMorrin (Labour, Cardiff North) (Ayes); Sir Ashley Fox (Conservative, Bridgwater) and David Simmonds (Conservative, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) (Noes).

How each MP voted

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Sources

• Bill: Universal Credit Act 2025
• Hansard: Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
• Commons division 265
• Commons Votes API: division b1b7568b0089aeda 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: division search a70909daf7799dd7 15 October 2026
• Hansard API: debate 88a71670c316b8c5 15 October 2026

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