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Division Vote (Commons)
3 Dec 2025 - Pension Schemes Bill - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 74 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 143 Noes - 304
Division Vote (Commons)
3 Dec 2025 - Pension Schemes Bill - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 75 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 154 Noes - 303
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 88 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 357 Noes - 174
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 89 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 364 Noes - 167
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 90 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 182
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 89 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 362 Noes - 164
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 89 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 348 Noes - 176
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 90 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 369 Noes - 166
Division Vote (Commons)
2 Dec 2025 - Budget Resolutions - View Vote Context
Helen Whately (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 92 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 371 Noes - 166
Written Question
Universal Credit
Tuesday 25th November 2025

Asked by: Helen Whately (Conservative - Faversham and Mid Kent)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who have newly claimed Universal Credit in each of the last 5 years, broken down by (a) health-related reasons for claiming and (b) the searching-for-work conditionality group.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

However, monthly statistics for the number of People on Universal Credit in Great Britain are published regularly on Stat-Xplore. This data is available by conditionality regime and claim duration.

Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract information and can refer to the Universal Credit Official Statistics: Stat-Xplore user guide.