Commons votes

2 July 2025 · Business & Regulation

How MPs voted: Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025

Newspaper merger regulations

Voting Aye meant: Supported stricter merger rules

338voted Aye
79voted No
Passed by 259 votes

By party

MPs who sit now. The totals above are the official count.

PartyAyeNo
Labour2930
Liberal Democrat061
Labour (Co-op)350
Independent32
Democratic Unionist Party04
Plaid Cymru04
Reform UK31
Green Party03
Conservative02
Your Party20
Traditional Unionist Voice01
Ulster Unionist Party01

How each MP voted

415 of 417 recorded votes were cast by MPs who still sit, listed here. MPs who did not vote are not shown: an absence can mean a pair, ministerial duty, illness or a deliberate abstention, and the data cannot tell those apart.

Aye (336)

No (79)

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Source: division 249 on votes.parliament.uk ↗. The plain-English summary is ours.