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- Take a peek beyond the Chair...
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- 1 year ago
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- Experience the history of the role of Speaker of the House of Commons up close over Easter recess. Find out more: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/january/easter-speakers-house-tours/
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- Take a peek beyond the Chair...
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Experience the history of the role of Speaker of the House of Commons up close over Easter recess.
Find out more: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/january/easter-speakers-house-tours/
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- E-petition debate relating to inheritance tax relief for working farms - Monday 10 February
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to inheritance tax relief for working farms.
Ben Goldsborough MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700138
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more abo...
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- E-petition debate relating to career breaks for parents of ill children - Monday 3 February
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to career breaks for parents of ill children
Robbie Moore MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/638449
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out m...
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 5 February 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/ZlLlL2hQgkk
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 5 February 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- Rip-off Britain: Dynamic pricing and consumer protection - Business and Trade Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Business and Trade Committee hold a public meeting on dynamic pricing and consumer protection, hearing from:
Anne Pardoe, Interim Head of Policy at Citizens Advice
Allen Simpson, Deputy CEO at UKHospitality
Sue Davies, Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy at Which?
Tom Greatrex, Chair at Football Supporters Association
Andrew Parsons, UK Managing Director and Regional Vice President, UK and Ireland, at Ticketmaster
Justin Madders MP, Minster for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets at Department for Business and Trade
George Lusty, Interim Executive Director for Consumer Protection and Markets at Competition and Markets Authority
David Marshall, Deputy Director, Consumer Policy at Department for Business and Trade
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- UK’s sanctions strategy - Foreign Affairs Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The evidence session will examine the UK’s sanctions policy in full and the effectiveness of the different sanctions regimes. The session will also explore when, how and why sanctions might be an appropriate tool of foreign policy. Members are likely to ask whether the Government should be bolder in its use of sanctions, or whether sanctions have become an overused foreign policy tool. Members may also ask what role Parliament should have in scrutinising sanctions, if any.
The session will also focus on UK sanctions against Russia, the evolution of the Government’s strategic aims since the start of the conflict, as well as examining the arguments for and against the confiscation and use of frozen Russian assets for any Ukrainian reconstruction plan. Questions are likely to cover the evasion of sanctions via third countries.
• Tom Keatinge – Director of the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
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- The remediation of dangerous cladding - Public Accounts Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is holding a two-part evidence session on the remediation of dangerous cladding on Monday 3rd February at 3.30pm. The National Audit Office reported in November 2024 that up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding had not yet been identified. It highlighted hundreds of thousands of residents who have no idea when their building will be made safe, with many continuing to suffer significant emotional and financial distress.
The session’s first panel will hear from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign on the current experience of residents. Other likely topics to be discussed with housing sector representatives include how to accelerate remediation in social housing, strengthening enforcement and paying for remediation.
The Committee will then move into its second panel to question senior Government and Homes England officials. The panel will likely see scrutiny of Government plans for identifying buildings with dangero...
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- The future of the Palace of Westminster
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- 1 year ago
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- Restoring the historic Palace of Westminster will support jobs and boost businesses nationwide. We’ve involved hundreds of specialists and training providers in our planning.
Judith Cummins MP, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chair of the Restoration and Renewal Programme Board, speaks about some of the future opportunities ⬆️
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 29 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 29 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/gPjfHWGwA6g
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- The work of NHS England - Health and Social Care Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee question the senior leadership of NHS England on whether the NHS is well placed to implement the Government’s three healthcare shifts. Examining the relationship between NHS England and ICSs (integrated care systems), the committee consider how the current system can support the Government’s ambition to shift care from hospital to community.
MPs pose questions on the Budget’s funding allocations for the NHS and on productivity within the NHS, as well as what the panel hopes to see from the 10 Year Health Plan. The session is an opportunity for the Committee to explore the NHS’ approach to tackling waiting lists and winter pressures.
#nhs #nhsengland #selectcommittee #ukpolitics
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- Misogyny in music: follow up - Women and Equalities Committee
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- 1 year ago
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- The Women and Equalities Committee are taking evidence on misogyny in the music industry 🎧
They will assess what progress has been made since they published their report in January 2024, including:
✅ what support is available for those experiencing discrimination and abuse
✅ representation and safety at concerts and festivals
✅ what steps the Government and industry bodies should take to combat misogyny
#SelectCommittee #Politics #UKPolitics #MusicIndustry #MusicIndustryNews #WomenInMusic #MisogynyinMusic
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- The situation in Syria - Foreign Affairs Committee
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- 1 year ago
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- During the first panel, the Committee will hear evidence from Lina Khatib, Chatham House MENA expert and fellow and Simon Collis, the former UK Ambassador to Syria. The panel will examine the factors that led to the fall of Assad and will also assess the stability of the current regime, led by Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Questions are likely to cover whether HTS has truly departed from its jihadist and fundamentalist origins. Members are likely to ask about the role of outside powers in the fall of the Assad regime, including Turkey, Russia, the US, Israel and Iran.
Richard Barrett, former Director of Counter-terrorism at MI6 and former head of the UN al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team, will give evidence in the second panel. During this panel, the Committee will focus on the security situation in northeast Syria, the stability of detention camps and prisons housing Islamic State foreign fighters, and the likelihood of the Islamic State exploiting the ...
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- E-petition debate relating to speech and language therapy - Monday 27 January
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to speech and language therapy.
Dave Robertson MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/657935
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more about h...
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- St Stephen's Hall, 120 years later on... ⏳
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- St Stephen's Hall stands on the site of the royal Chapel of St Stephen's. This is where the House of Commons sat until the Chapel was destroyed by the fire of 1834. It is one of the main routes taken by members and visitors to Central Lobby and both chambers.
Have you walked through the Hall on a visit to Parliament?
Then ➡️ A photo of St Stephen's Hall looking into Central Lobby, 1905, ©Parliamentary Archives.
Now ➡️ A smartphone video of the same view, 2025.
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 22 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/WkYPn23hx2c
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 22 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- How can you follow the work of Parliament?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Watch on ParliamentLive.TV 📱
Read the Order Paper 🔍
Check in with the online annunciator🧑💻
...and follow us across Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube and LinkedIn. Access our photography via our Flickr.
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- Defence in the Grey Zone - Defence Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Examining the independent inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse - Home Affairs Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Home Affairs Committee is examining the implementation of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and hears evidence from Professor Alexis Jay.
The session considers how far the recommendations of the report have been implemented. It also focuses on how institutions have responded to the findings and the relationship between the inquiry and government.
The independent inquiry was launched in 2015 to examine how institutions such as local authorities, religious groups and child custodial facilities had failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. The final report was published in October 2022 and made recommendations for wide-ranging reform.
#SelectCommittee #Politics #UKpolitics
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- Social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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- 1 year ago
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- The Science, innovation and Technology Committee is holding the first session of its inquiry into the role social media algorithms and generative AI have in spreading misleading and harmful content.
Committee will hear from representatives of groups that were most affected by the riots in the summer as well as experts on misinformation, disinformation, online hate and social media business models.
Witnesses:
- Professor Sebastien Ourselin, Professor of Healthcare Engineering at Head of School, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Kings College London
- Zara Mohammed, Secretary General at Muslim Council of Britain
- Ravishaan Muthiah, Director of Communications at Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
- Kelly Chequer, Councillor at Sunderland City Council
- Marianna Spring, Disinformation and social media correspondent at BBC
- Mr Imran Ahmed, CEO at Center for Countering Digital Hate
- Dr Joe Whit...
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- E-petition debate relating to income requirements for family visas - Monday 20 January
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to the income requirement for family visas.
Irene Campbell MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/652602
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out ...
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- Work of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In his first appearance in front of a select committee, Ed Miliband appears in front of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee to speak about the Government's plans for energy and their net zero projects.
Witnesses:
- Ed Milliband, Secretary of State at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Jeremy Pocklington CB Permanent Secretary at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
#NetZero #Energy #SelectCommittee #Politics #ukpolitics
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 15 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 15 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/52VM48i4cBI
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill | Third Session - Business and Trade Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Following contentious evidence on labour abuses from Shein and McDonald’s last, the Business and Trade Committee holds the final evidence session in its inquiry Making Work Pay: The Employment Rights Bill, with a look at the reality of employment status, the gig economy and zero-hours contracts.
Does “flexible” - some might say insecure or precarious - work actually foment the conditions for workplace abuses?
Will the provisions of the Employment Rights Bill make effective change for workers and business, in a way that can counter any loopholes and unintended consequences for each?
Sports Direct, part of Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, committed in 2016 to ending zero-hours but pulled back from implementing the change, and will face questions - alongside union representatives - about the conditions and practices needed to fairly manage workers’ time commitment instead.
Courier companies like Deliveroo and Evri, appearing in the se...
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- E-petition debate relating to children and social media - Monday 13 January
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to children and social media.
Lewis Atkinson MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/661407
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more about how...
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 8 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 8 January 2025
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/iaqIsIQkFRk?feature=share
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
Twitter: https...
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- Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill | Second Session - Business and Trade Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Business and Trade Committee holds the second evidence session in its inquiry Making Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill, questioning McDonalds, Tesco and the British Retail Consortium as well as Chinese global online retailers Shein and Temu on labour rights in their national operations and international supply chains.
Companies like McDonalds have vigourously defended the “option” of zero-hours contracts, claiming it offers valuable flexibility for workers.
But beyond the obvious impacts of low wages and insecurity, do these contracts exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace in a way that risks and perpetuates abuses?
How do franchises and retailers like the witnesses appearing today ensure their operations uphold labour rights and standards throughout their global supply chains, especially where those standards do not operate locally?
How do we ensure that the UK does not simply ‘export’ labour abuses like moder...
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- The Work of MHCLG – Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee is questioning Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The evidence session is the first HCLG Committee session with the Secretary of State in this Parliament.
On 11 December, the HCLG Committee launched an inquiry on the funding and sustainability of local government finance, looking at whether the local government finance system in England is fit for purpose.
The HCLG Committee also has two short inquiries underway, examining the topics of children in temporary accommodation and rough sleeping.
The Committee held an evidence session on 20 November with Matthew Pennycook MP, Minister for Housing and Planning, on the Government’s plans to deliver on the commitment of 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament.
Witnesses:
- Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Prime Minister and S...
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- E-petition debate relating to a general election - Monday 6 January
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate on a petition relating to a general election.
Jamie Stone MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk
Find out more about how petiti...
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- Welcome back to Westminster.
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The House of Commons and House of Lords sit from 2.30pm today.
Members of both Houses will ask questions to government ministers and examine draft laws. All chamber business and committees are streamed by our dedicated broadcast unit. 📹
Follow the work of the Commons, the Lords and their Speakers across Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube and LinkedIn. Access our photography via our Flickr.
See the latest: https://linktr.ee/ukparliament
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- How does Big Ben coordinate with the NYE Fireworks?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Did you know tonight’s fireworks are set to start from the first strike of Big Ben?
Our Clock Mechanics make sure timings are precise.
Happy New Year! 🎆
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- Let's recap 2024
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This morning the House of Commons sat from 9.30am, starting with questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed. 🟩
The House of Lords sat from 11am. Members questioned the government on a range of topics, including the Windrush Compensation Scheme, e-scooters and e-bikes, National Insurance contributions for employers, and home schooling. 🟥
Today is the last sitting day of 2024. Both Houses rise for Christmas recess at conclusion of business and will return on Monday 6 January.
Catch up with today's business: https://parliamentlive.tv/Commons
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- MPs question Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, 19 December 2024 - Liaison Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- MPs on the Liaison Committee question the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer.
The likely areas of questioning include:
- Growth and the economy
- Public Services and plan for change
- Global Affairs and security
Chaired by Dame Meg Hillier MP, the Liaison Committee questions the Prime Minister of the day about the policy of Government at regular intervals.
#SelectCommittees #UKPolitics #politics #economy #PublicServices
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- What is the Liaison Committee?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Prime Minister will appear before the Liaison Committee on Thursday 19 December at 2.30pm. 🕝
The committee expects to cover
- Growth and the economy
- Public services and plan for change
- Global affairs and security
Read more on our website, committees.parliament.uk
#KeirStarmer #SelectCommittees #Parliament #HouseOfCommons #UKPolitics
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 18 December 2024
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukhouseofcommons
Instagram: h...
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 18 December 2024
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/mhruWptkhqE
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
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- Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill | First Session - Business and Trade Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This session will provide Amazon with its first opportunity to explain its approach to industrial relations in Parliament, alongside evidence from BAE Systems, Jaguar Land Rover and major trade unions GMB and TUC.
What impact do unions, trade associations and businesses expect the reforms in the Employment Rights Bill to have on industrial relations, and what might a future industrial relations settlement look like for the UK labour market?
Chair of the BTC Rt Hon Liam Byrne said: “The Government has set its sights on a pro-worker, pro-business agenda. But has it got the balance right? In this new enquiry we’ll be lighting up the key issues at stake and reporting back in time for the House to hear what we heard before the Report stage of the bill.”
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- Yvette Cooper MP gives evidence on the work of the Home Office - Home Affairs Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Home Affairs Committee question Home Secretary, Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, in a wide-ranging session examining the work of the Home Office.
Topics of questioning are likely to include:
• Migration and the asylum system
• Summer disorder
• Police funding and standards
• Crime and anti-social behaviour
Witnesses
- Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Home Office
- Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE, Permanent Secretary, Home Office
- Simon Ridley, Second Permanent Secretary, Home Office
#migration #policeuk #crime #SelectCommittee #Politics #UKPolitics
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- Future of the BBC World Service - House of Commons Committees
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- BBC World Service provides trusted news to radio, TV and digital audiences around the world in 42 languages including English, reaching a global audience of 318 million. It is chiefly funded by the UK Licence Fee with additional grant funding of £104.4mn [FY 23/24 and 24/25 respectively] from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Under this arrangement, the BBC World Service has agreed not to close any language services – but this condition set to be lifted in 2025.
BBC Director General, Tim Davie, made it clear in a speech in March 2024 that "we cannot keep asking UK Licence Fee payers to invest in (the World Service) when we face cuts to UK services. We will need to discuss a long-term funding solution for the World Service that comes from central government budgets."
This is a joint session between the Foreign Affairs Committee, International Development Committee and Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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- What is the passage of a bill?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Find out more about the stages of a bill as it passes through Parliament.
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- E-petition debate relating to Israel and Palestine - Monday 16 December
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate on two petitions relating to Israel and Palestine.
Roz Savage MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petitions:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/653509
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/652949
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament...
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- 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) - 11 December 2024
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
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- 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister's Questions - 11 December 2024
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) - https://youtube.com/live/0opqeJiL_AI
Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.
In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.
The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.
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- UK Arms Exports to Israel - Business and Trade Committee
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On the 2 September, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that “for certain UK arms exports to Israel, there exists a clear risk that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law”. Based on that assessment, the Government suspended about 30 Israel arms export licences.
In this session, the Committee questions trade, foreign office and defence ministers and officials on the UK government’s policy on arms exports to Israel, seeking to understand:
• How the Government applies the UK Strategic Exports Licensing Criteria, including its approach in situations where information is incomplete or very difficult to obtain
• The framework that the Government uses to assess whether there is a “clear risk” that items exported from the UK might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law
• Why the export of F35 fighter jet component...
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- E-petition debate relating to the sale and use of fireworks - Monday 9 December
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate on two petitions relating to the sale and use of fireworks.
Robbie Moore MP, has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.
Read the petitions:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/639319
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700013
Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/
What are petition debates?
Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.
Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.
The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliame...
