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§ 00 Issue1 named divisions1 bill

Disability Benefits

PIP, ESA, and disability support

Universal CreditPensionsChild Poverty
§ 01How parties voted5 parties

Government alignment shows how often each party voted with the government's stated position. Issue-aligned direction shows agreement with the AI-identified supportive stance.

Voted with government positionVoted in issue-aligned direction
Labour and Co-operative Party40 MPs · 40 votes
95%
95%
Labour Party330 MPs · 330 votes
89%
89%
Independent10 MPs · 10 votes
20%
20%
Liberal Democrats63 MPs · 63 votes
0%
0%
Scottish National Party9 MPs · 9 votes
0%
0%
§ 02Bills & votesGrouped by bill
9 Jul 2025Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Clause 2, as amended, and Clause 3 stand partAye = Support retaining the government's welfare reform clauses in the Bill, allowing changes to Universal Credit and PIP to proceed · No = Oppose the clauses standing part of the Bill, seeking to remove or block these specific welfare reform measures334 · 137Passed
How is this calculated?

Government alignment shows how often a party's MPs voted with the government's stated position on this issue. This is the most comparable metric across parties, as it measures the same reference point for everyone.

Issue-aligned direction shows how often MPs voted in the direction tagged as supportive of this issue by AI analysis. For example, if a vote is tagged “pro-environment”, an Aye vote counts as aligned.

Sources
Commons Votes APIcommonsvotes-api.parliament.uk
LicenceOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
AI analysisVote stance tagging · Claude 4.x