Second Reading [Relevant document: Third Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Post office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver, HC477.]
David Lammy Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State if he will make a statement on the situation in Gaza and Israel.
Second Reading
Mel Stride With permission, I would like to make a statement to provide an interim update on the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation into the way that changes to the state...
Andrew Mitchell With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on Israel and Gaza. As the House knows, the United Kingdom has long been calling for an immediate humanitarian pause to allow for the...
Lucy Powell To ask the Leader of the House if she will give us the forthcoming business.
“After section 240 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 insert— “240A Report on the Prime Minister’s engagement with the Intelligence and Security Committee (1) The...
Roger Gale Before we start the debate, I should inform the House that while the Chair has no power to impose a time limit on opening speeches, Mr Speaker has made it plain that he expects those speeches to...
Second Reading [Relevant document: e-petition 650300, Ban imports of hunting trophies of endangered animals.]
Oliver Dowden With permission, I will make a statement about malicious cyber-activity targeting the United Kingdom by actors that we assess are affiliated to the Chinese state. I want to update the House on...
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Nicholas Fletcher I beg to move, That this House has considered Easter, Christian culture and heritage. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for...
Tan Dhesi I beg to move, That this House has considered Personal Independence Payment and other disability benefits. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham. I am grateful to the...
[Julie Elliott in the Chair]
Munira Wilson I beg to move, That this House has considered tutoring provision. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting the debate,...
Anthony Mangnall I beg to move, That this House has considered the bicentenary of the RNLI. It is my honour and privilege to open and close today’s debate on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and to...
[Relevant Documents: Sixty-Seventh Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2022–23, Child Trust Funds, HC 1231, and the Government response, CP 941.]
[Relevant documents: Seventh Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee of Session 2022–23, Food Security, HC 622, and the Government response, Session...
George Howarth I beg to move, That this House has considered e-petition 206851 relating to a public inquiry into the James Bulger murder case. I am pleased to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Henderson. I...
Dehenna Davison I beg to move, That this House has considered access to migraine treatment. It is, as ever, a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. Let me start by stating the blooming obvious:...
[Dame Maria Miller in the Chair]
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Lord Callanan: Moved by Lord Callanan That the Bill be now read a second time.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook: Moved by Baroness Scott of Bybrook That the Bill be now read a second time. Relevant document: 16th Report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee....
Lord Dubs To ask His Majesty’s Government how many asylum claims are currently waiting to be determined.
The following Statement was made in the House of Commons on Tuesday 26 March. “With permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a Statement on the continuing work to fix buildings...
Lord Moylan: Moved by Lord Moylan That the Bill be now read a second time.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement given in another place by my right honourable friend the Minister for Development and Africa. It reads as follows: “As...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire: Moved by Lord Wallace of Saltaire 1: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, leave out from “the” to the end of line 8 and insert “political or moral disapproval of...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to improve food security.
Lord Krebs To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they intend to carry forward surplus emissions from the Third Carbon Budget, in the light of the advice of the Committee on Climate Change published...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington: Moved by Baroness Chapman of Darlington 7: Clause 1, page 1, leave out lines 20 to 22Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment is to seek clarity on when...
Debates in the House of Lords are an opportunity for Peers from all parties (and crossbench peers, and Bishops) to scrutinise government legislation and raise important local, national or topical issues.
And sometimes to shout at each other.