The topic lensIssue · 9 divisions tagged · 13 parties active
Public Spending.
Government expenditure and austerity
Divisions tagged
9
This parliament
Parties active
13
≥1 vote tagged
Most on-whip
Reform UK
87% aligned
Recent activity
9
Most-recent divisions
Each row is one party. The bar shows how its MPs voted relative to a neutral midpoint — to the right = on-side with the majority position, to the left = opposed. The percentage figure is the share of that party’s MPs who took the same side: higher = more whip-disciplined, closer to 50% = a freer vote.
| Party | Stance vs neutral midpoint | Net % | Discipline | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | Lab | -17 | 33% on-whip · 355 MPs | |
| Conservative and Unionist Party | Con | +26 | 76% on-whip · 110 MPs | |
| Liberal Democrats | LD | +12 | 62% on-whip · 71 MPs | |
| Labour and Co-operative Party | Lab | -18 | 32% on-whip · 42 MPs | |
| Independent | Ind | -6 | 44% on-whip · 14 MPs | |
| Scottish National Party | SNP | -10 | 40% on-whip · 8 MPs | |
| Reform UK | Ref | +37 | 87% on-whip · 6 MPs | |
| Democratic Unionist Party | DUP | +15 | 65% on-whip · 4 MPs |
Source · Hansard · alignment is the share of party MPs who voted with the party majority on tagged divisions
| Date | Motion | Aye | No | Carried |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Opposition day: Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Aye: Support a formal parliamentary censure of the Chancellor, signalling loss of confidence in her conduct and economic stewardship · No: Reject the censure motion, defending the Chancellor's conduct and backing the government's economic approach | 92 | 296 | No |
| 5 Nov 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 43 Aye: Reject the Lords amendment, keeping the independent reviewer's remit narrower and accepting the government's existing safeguards as adequate to ensure proportionate use of the eligibility verification powers. · No: Support the Lords amendment, requiring the independent reviewer to explicitly assess whether the mass bank-data checks on benefit claimants are proportionate and whether they cause unintended harm to recipients — adding a civil liberties safeguard to the surveillance regime. | 268 | 82 | Yes |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 Aye: Support limiting bank account scanning to cases where there is already a suspicion of fraud, protecting claimants' civil liberties and presumption of innocence. · No: Oppose the restriction, arguing the eligibility verification power must operate before any suspicion arises in order to detect incorrect payments early — limiting it to suspected fraud cases would make it useless. | 88 | 240 | No |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 Aye: Support delaying recovery of carer's allowance overpayments until an independent review has concluded and its recommendations implemented, protecting carers from repayment demands before the systemic failures that caused overpayments are fully understood. · No: Oppose the blanket pause on carer's allowance overpayment recovery, accepting the government's argument that existing safeguards protect carers and that suspending all recovery until recommendations are implemented goes too far. | 75 | 254 | No |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 Aye: Support creating a specific legal provision to target 'sickfluencers' who encourage fraudulent benefit claims, arguing current powers are insufficient to deter this growing form of welfare fraud. · No: Oppose the amendment, arguing existing powers are adequate and that a broadly drafted new offence risks catching people who provide legitimate advice to genuine claimants — such as Citizens Advice workers. | 97 | 258 | No |
All 9 divisions on this issue →
By party, the MPs whose voting record on public spending is most closely tracking the party majority. A fuller “most active by speech volume + written questions” ranking is pending — needs per-issue speech aggregation.
LabLabour Party
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| David Williams | Stoke-on-Trent North | 67% |
| Lorraine Beavers | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | 67% |
| Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Stepney | 60% |
ConConservative and Unionist Party
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and Tavistock | 100% |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 100% |
| Richard Fuller | North Bedfordshire | 100% |
LDLiberal Democrats
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | 100% |
| Steff Aquarone | North Norfolk | 75% |
| James MacCleary | Lewes | 75% |
LabLabour and Co-operative Party
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| Luke Pollard | Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | 50% |
| Chris Evans | Caerphilly | 50% |
| Andrew Pakes | Peterborough | 40% |
IndIndependent
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| James McMurdock | South Basildon and East Thurrock | 100% |
| Cameron Thomas | Tewkesbury | 60% |
| Iqbal Mohamed | Dewsbury and Batley | 50% |
SNPScottish National Party
| MP | Constituency | % on-whip |
|---|---|---|
| Pete Wishart | Perth and Kinross-shire | 50% |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | 50% |
| Chris Law | Dundee Central | 50% |
Pending — issue-to-service mapping
Mapping each Westminster issue to the equivalent council service bucket (so “Public Spending” → the matching service line on council finance, with the ranked-spend table this section wants) is its own taxonomy job. Council service spend lives on the council pages today; cross-cut by issue here in a follow-on pass.
Sources, methods & last update
Issue taggingEach division is tagged to one or more issues by Claude classification, reviewed by topic admins.
VotingHansard division lists · Commons Votes API
AlignmentShare of party MPs voting with the party majority on tagged divisions
CohortThis parliament · 9 divisions