Monday, 11 December 2023
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps she is taking to help reduce the impact of industrial action by teachers on children and parents.
What steps her Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of school funding in County Durham.
What steps she is taking to increase childcare support for working parents.
What recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of students completing T-Level courses.
If her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of after-school childcare on long-term educational outcomes.
What steps her Department is taking to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
What steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for children with special educational needs and disabilities to receive support.
What steps her Department is taking to improve access to special needs education.
What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that tertiary and technical education providers work with businesses to meet local skills needs.
What recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of support staff vacancies in schools.
What steps she is taking to help reduce the workload of teachers.
What recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of free school meals on children and their parents.
What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of university applications from international students on the long-term sustainability of higher education...
What recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of violence in classrooms.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if he will make a statement on the international diplomacy surrounding the Israel-Hamas war.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on former Afghan special forces facing deportation from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Fiona Bruce presented a Bill to require the Prime Minister to appoint a Special Envoy for International Freedom of Religion or Belief; to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Oliver Heald presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the merits of providing financial support...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Paul Beresford presented a Bill to create an offence of child criminal exploitation; and for connected purposes. Bill read the First...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Zarah Sultana presented a Bill to make provision for an inquiry into the end use of arms sold to foreign states to determine whether they...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Natalie Elphicke presented a Bill to provide that, if a service can be subscribed to online, it must be possible to cancel that...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Helen Morgan presented a Bill to require providers of electronic communications networks to grant other such providers access to their...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Dr Thérèse Coffey, supported by Sarah Dines, Sir Robert Goodwill, Selaine Saxby, Philip Dunne, Caroline Nokes, Stephen Hammond,...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Maria Eagle presented a Bill to increase the minimum required height of guarding in multi-storey car parks; to make provision about the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Jamie Stone presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish a strategy for the recruitment and retention of health and social...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Christine Jardine presented a Bill to make provision for a right to consular assistance for British citizens abroad in cases where there...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Mrs Flick Drummond, supported by Mr Robin Walker, Ian Mearns, Sir Gavin Williamson and Dr Caroline Johnson presented a Bill to make...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Rachael Maskell, supported by Andy McDonald, Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck, John McDonnell, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Imran Hussain, Caroline Lucas, Andrew...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Mr Alistair Carmichael presented a Bill to make provision about the powers and duties of the Groceries Code Adjudicator; and for connected...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Katherine Fletcher presented a Bill to prohibit the creation and uploading of unauthorised media content relating to prisons. Bill read the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) James Daly presented a Bill to make provision regarding pets with microchips; and for connected purposes. Bill read the First time; to be...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to prohibit the import of young puppies; and for connected purposes. Bill read the First time; to be read a...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to make provision about workers’ rights; to amend the definition of worker; and for connected...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Andy Carter presented a Bill to allow for certain civil and family court hearings to be conducted remotely. Bill read the First time; to be...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Bob Seely presented a Bill to amend the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 to deprive in certain circumstances Princes of their British Dignities...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sally-Ann Hart presented a Bill to require the provision of information relating to support available for parents and carers of infants for...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Anna Firth presented a Bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to require a person in charge of a dog to take all reasonable steps to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to review, and publish a...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Vicky Ford presented a Bill to make provision requiring local authorities to exercise their functions with a view to improving and...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Paul Bristow presented a Bill to make provision about the approval of remuneration paid to local government employees. Bill read the First...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sarah Green presented a Bill to provide for a category of protection for chalk streams for the purpose of providing additional protections...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Kevin Foster, supported by Dr Thérèse Coffey, presented a Bill to make provision in connection with the ratification by the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Richard Burgon presented a Bill to require the Leader of the House of Commons to move a Motion prohibiting Members of Parliament from...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Fleur Anderson presented a Bill to require landlords in the private rented sector to remedy hazards in leased dwellings; and for connected...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Bob Blackman, supported by Dr Thérèse Coffey, presented a Bill to amend the Crown Estate Act 1961 to increase the maximum term of...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Nickie Aiken presented a Bill to require employers to allow employees to take time off from work for appointments for fertility treatment;...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Richard Foord presented a Bill to confer powers on and place duties on the Environment Agency in respect of the monitoring of water...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Daisy Cooper presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to lay before Parliament an annual report on the allocation of research...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Layla Moran presented a Bill to make provision in connection with the recognition of the State of Palestine. Bill read the First time; to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Marion Fellows presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish proposals for a social tariff for energy. Bill read the First...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Dame Diana Johnson, supported by Karl Turner and Emma Hardy, presented a Bill to make provision about mandatory local consultation in...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Helen Morgan presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish and implement a Care Workers Employment Strategy, with the aim...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Helen Morgan presented a Bill to place a duty on the Government to ensure that every town with a population of more than 10,000 people has...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Owen Thompson presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish annual data relating to veterans who are given non-custodial...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Owen Thompson presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish proposals for a compensation scheme for veterans who have...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Mrs Natalie Elphicke presented a Bill to amend Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 to prohibit age discrimination by employers in relation...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Mrs Natalie Elphicke presented a Bill to require companies and certain other persons to insure against their liability for injury to third...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to place a duty on public bodies to have a presumption in favour of purchasing goods of British origin in...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to prohibit the practice of offering preferential pricing to new customers compared to existing customers;...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to expand the list of sporting events that must be made available for broadcast by free-to-air television...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to regulate the use of minimum qualification or experience requirements in job applications; and for...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to create the offence of impersonating a public sector website for the purpose of collecting payment or...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to require His Majesty’s Government to formally recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915-16. Bill read...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) John Spellar presented a Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers. Bill...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish a strategy for ending the need for food banks by 2030; and for...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the impact of deductions from Universal Credit...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to amend the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 to make provision about the offence of...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to make provision for asylum seekers to challenge the proportionality of a proposed eviction from...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to amend the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 to make provision about civil liability for breaches...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to make provision for warnings to be given to benefit claimants before they are given sanctions; and for...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to make provision for national minimum standards in accommodation offered to refugees and asylum seekers;...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that applicants for Disability Benefit are given the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to place a duty on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pursue a policy of full employment; to make...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to amend the Welfare Reform Act 2012 to provide that a Universal Credit claimant may not be sanctioned for...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish annual calculations of benefit and tax credit rates that would...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to amend the Scotland Act 1998 to grant legislative competence for employment matters to the Scottish...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to grant powers to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to identify and investigate systemic...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the merits of repealing those provisions of...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to prevent the evictions of Universal Credit claimants in rent...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Chris Stephens presented a Bill to make provision for granting permission to work to asylum seekers who have waited six months for a...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to amend section 58 of the Highways Act 1980 to restrict the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to make provision about...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to provide that a draft statutory instrument which is subject to the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to provide that, before making any order to designate a type of dog...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to provide for an exemption from the provisions of the Dangerous...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to make provision for Arm’s-Length Bodies to be directly...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to exempt from Value Added Tax goods or services which are...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to amend the Mobile Homes Act 1983; and for connected purposes. Bill...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to create an offence of disclosing the identity of a person who is...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to establish an independent review...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to place a duty on the Secretary of State to improve the diagnosis...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to exempt from VAT supplies of electricity, oil and gas for domestic...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to amend the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 to make...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to exempt motor homes from caravan site licensing requirements; and...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to make provision about arranging alternative non-NHS England...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to make provision for the privatisation of the British Broadcasting...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to extend the definition of children’s clothing for the...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to de-criminalise the non-payment of the BBC licence fee by persons...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to require a Regulatory Impact Assessment to be published for all...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to require the Chancellor of the Exchequer to report to Parliament...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to require public authorities to exercise their statutory powers to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to create offences in respect of persons who have entered the UK...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to make provision for co-funding and for the extension of co-payment...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to amend the requirements for caravan site licence applications made...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to limit exit payments made by some public sector organisations to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Sir Christopher Chope, supported by Sir Edward Leigh, presented a Bill to establish a national register of Green Belt land in England; to...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Dr Caroline Johnson presented a Bill to make provision about the notice period for termination of funding agreements for secure 16 to 19...
Presentation and First Reading ( Standing Order No. 57) Vicky Ford presented a Bill to make provision to enable local authorities to establish planning obligations relating to affordable housing...
Second Reading
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 83A(7)), That the following provisions shall apply to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill: Committal (1) The Bill shall be...
King’s recommendation signified. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)), That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Leasehold and Freehold Reform...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 52(1)(a)), That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, it is expedient to authorise the...
We now come to the motions for appointments to Select Committees. Unless there are any challenges—and I have been notified of none—I propose, with the leave of the House, to take them...
That Bim Afolami be discharged from the Business and Trade Committee and Julie Marson be added.
That Jesse Norman be added to the Defence Committee.
That Mark Jenkinson be discharged from the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee and Derek Thomas be added.
That Saqib Bhatti be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranil Jayawardena be added.
That Sir Mike Penning be discharged from the Holocaust Memorial Bill (Select Committee) and John Stevenson be added.
That Paul Holmes be discharged from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and Tom Hunt be added.
That Tom Tugendhat be discharged from the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and Sarah Atherton be added.
That Aaron Bell be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Nickie Aiken be added.
That Ashley Dalton, Jill Mortimer and Nick Smith be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Paula Barker, Sarah Owen and Jeremy Quin be added.
That Aaron Bell be discharged from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and Dr James Davies be added.
That Sir James Duddridge and Dame Andrea Leadsom be discharged from the Treasury Committee and Dr Thérèse Coffey and Stephen Hammond be added.—(Sir Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the...
I rise to present a petition submitted by my constituents in Dover and Deal who are concerned by the Dover Fastrack proposals. The petition has attracted about 700 signatures, led by those of...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Scott Mann.)8.53 pm
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