Renters’ Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 18

Parliament voted on 8 September 2025 to reject Lords Amendment 18 to the Renters' Rights Bill, a change that the House of Lords had introduced to modify the government's original legislation. The motion to disagree with the Lords passed by 402 votes to 97, a commanding majority of 305. This was one of several votes held on the same day in which the Commons pushed back against multiple Lords amendments to the bill, part of the parliamentary process known as "ping-pong," in which the two chambers negotiate the final text of legislation.

The vote matters because it keeps the government's preferred version of the Renters' Rights Bill intact on whichever provision Amendment 18 addressed, advancing a piece of legislation that the government has framed as a significant reform of the private rented sector in England. The bill as a whole is designed to strengthen the rights and security of tenants, with measures affecting millions of renters and landlords across the country. By rejecting the Lords' modification, the Commons reasserted its version of those protections, preventing the upper house from diluting or redirecting the policy as drafted by ministers.

The division was almost entirely along party lines. Labour MPs, including those sitting under the Labour and Co-operative Party designation, voted unanimously in favour of rejecting the amendment, as did the Liberal Democrats, the Democratic Unionist Party, the Greens, and several smaller parties, giving the government its large majority. The Conservatives voted unanimously against, joined by Reform UK and two independent MPs. There were no notable cross-party rebellions. This vote was one of at least five similar divisions on the same day, with comparable results across Lords Amendments 11, 19, 26, and 39, suggesting a coordinated Commons effort to restore the bill to the government's preferred form ahead of final passage.