Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Third Reading

MPs voted 264 to 99 on 4 June 2025 to pass the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill at Third Reading, its final stage in the House of Commons. The Bill now moves on for further parliamentary consideration. The result was never seriously in doubt given the government's majority, but the debate preceding the vote included discussion of two new clauses: one calling on the government to assess country-of-origin marking for ceramics, and one requiring supermarkets to disclose so-called shrinkflation to customers. The Bill establishes a framework for product standards and consumer protection regulation in the UK after Brexit. Its passage through the Commons reflects the government's intention to set a domestic regime for how goods are regulated and measured. The ceramics new clause, though withdrawn as a probing amendment, raised a practical concern affecting manufacturers: that products fired overseas and only finished in the UK are being sold with markings suggesting full British manufacture, potentially misleading consumers and undermining genuinely domestic producers. Labour and its Co-operative Party colleagues voted unanimously in favour, providing the 264 ayes alongside a small number of independents, Green Party MPs and representatives from Plaid Cymru and the SDLP. All 89 Conservative MPs who voted opposed the Bill, joined by 6 Reform UK MPs, 1 DUP member and 1 Traditional Unionist Voice MP. No Conservative or Reform MP voted aye. Large numbers of MPs across parties had no vote recorded.