House of Commons debates

Monday, 11 December 2023

  • Education

    The Secretary of State was asked—

  • Israel-Hamas War: Diplomacy

    98 speeches

    (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.

  • Former Afghan Special Forces: Deportation

    31 speeches

    (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.

  • BillS presented

    • International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill

      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...

    • Children in Hospital for Extended Periods (Report to Parliament) Bill

      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...

      Child Criminal Exploitation Bill

      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...

      Arms Trade (Inquiry and Suspension) Bill

      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...

      Online Services (Cancellation) Bill

      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...

      Access to Telecommunications Networks Bill

      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...

      Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill

      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,...

      Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety) Bill

      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...

      Health and Social Care (Recruitment and Retention of Staff in Rural Areas) Bill

      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...

      Consular Assistance Bill

      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...

      Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill

      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...

      Bullying and Respect at Work Bill

      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...

      Groceries Code Adjudicator (Powers and Duties) Bill

      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...

      Prison Media Bill

      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...

      Pets (Microchips) Bill

      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...

      Puppy Import (Prohibition) Bill

      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...

      Workers (Rights and Definition) Bill

      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...

      Courts (Remote Hearings)

      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...

      Titles Deprivation Act 1917 Amendment Bill

      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...

      Support for Infants Bill

      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...

      Animal Welfare (Responsibility for Dog Attacks) Bill

      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...

      Vaccine Damage Payments Act (Review) Bill

      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...

      School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill

      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...

      Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill

      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...

      Chalk Streams (Protection) Bill

      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...

      Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity (Ratification of Treaty) Bill

      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...

      Members of Parliament (Oil and Gas Companies) Bill

      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...

      Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill

      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...

      Fertility Treatment (Employment Rights) Bill

      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;...

      Water Quality Monitoring Bill

      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...

      Cancer Research Funding (Report to Parliament) Bill

      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...

      Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill

      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...

      Social Energy Tariff Bill

      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...

      Telecommunications Infrastructure (Consultation) Bill

      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...

      Carers and Care Workers Bill

      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...

      Bus Services Bill

      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...

      Veterans (Non-custodial Sentences) Bill

      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...

      Nuclear Veterans (Compensation) Bill

      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...

      Employment Equality (Insurance etc) Bill

      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...

      Public Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Bill

      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...

      British Goods (Public Sector Purchasing Duty) Bill

      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...

      Consumer Pricing Bill

      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;...

      Broadcasting (Listed Sporting Events) Bill

      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...

      Employment (Application Requirements) Bill

      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...

      Public Sector Website Impersonation Bill

      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...

      Armenian Genocide (Recognition) Bill

      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...

      House of Lords (Hereditary Peers (Abolition of By-Elections)) (No. 2) Bill

      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...

      Food Poverty Strategy 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...

      Deductions from Universal Credit (Report) Bill

      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...

      Corporate Homicide Bill

      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...

      Asylum Seekers (Accommodation Eviction Procedures) Bill

      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...

      Health and Safety at Work Bill

      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...

      Benefit Sanctions (Warnings) Bill

      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...

      Housing Standards (Refugees and Asylum Seekers) Bill

      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;...

      Disability Benefit Assessments (Recording) Bill

      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...

      Full Employment Bill

      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...

      Universal Credit Sanctions (Zero Hours Contracts) Bill

      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...

      Social Security Benefits (Healthy Eating) Bill

      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...

      Devolution (Employment) (Scotland) Bill

      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...

      Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (Powers) Bill

      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...

      Under-Occupancy Penalty (Report) Bill

      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...

      Evictions (Universal Credit) Bill

      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...

      Asylum Seekers (Permission to Work) Bill

      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...

      Highways Act 1980 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments Bill

      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...

      Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Dangerous Dogs (Licensing) Bill

      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...

      Arm’s-length Bodies (Accountability to Parliament) Bill

      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...

      Exemption from Value Added Tax (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

      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...

      Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Anonymity of Suspects 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...

      Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Bill

      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...

      Covid-19 Vaccine Diagnosis and Treatment Bill

      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...

      Domestic Energy (Value Added Tax) Bill

      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...

      Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (Amendment) Bill

      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...

      Caravan Site Licensing (Exemption of Motor Homes) Bill

      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...

      NHS England (Alternative Treatment) Bill

      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...

      British Broadcasting Corporation (Privatisation)Bill

      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...

      Children’s Clothing (Value Added Tax) Bill

      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...

      BBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) Bill

      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...

      Regulatory Impact Assessments Bill

      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...

      Barnett Formula (Replacement) Bill

      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...

      Rule of Law (Enforcement by Public Authorities) Bill

      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...

      Illegal Immigration (Offences) Bill

      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...

      National Health Service Co-Funding and Co-Payment Bill

      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...

      Caravan Sites Bill

      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...

      Public Sector Exit Payments (Limitation) Bill

      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...

      Green Belt (Protection) Bill

      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...

      Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill

      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...

      Affordable Housing (Conversion of Commercial Property) Bill

      1 speech

      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...

  • Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

    115 speeches

    Second Reading

  • Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Programme)

    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...

  • Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Money)

    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...

  • Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ways and Means)

    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...

  • Business without Debate

  • Committees

    1 speech

    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...

    • Business and Trade

      That Bim Afolami be discharged from the Business and Trade Committee and Julie Marson be added.

    • Defence

      That Jesse Norman be added to the Defence Committee.

      Energy Security and Net Zero

      That Mark Jenkinson be discharged from the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee and Derek Thomas be added.

      Foreign Affairs

      That Saqib Bhatti be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranil Jayawardena be added.

      Holocaust Memorial Bill (Select Committee)

      That Sir Mike Penning be discharged from the Holocaust Memorial Bill (Select Committee) and John Stevenson be added.

      Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

      That Paul Holmes be discharged from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and Tom Hunt be added.

      Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy

      That Tom Tugendhat be discharged from the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and Sarah Atherton be added.

      Procedure

      That Aaron Bell be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Nickie Aiken be added.

      Public Accounts

      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.

      Science, Innovation and Technology

      That Aaron Bell be discharged from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and Dr James Davies be added.

      Treasury

      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...

  • Petition - Dover Fastrack

    1 speech

    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...

  • Housing Availability: Ilfracombe

    4 speeches

    Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Scott Mann.)8.53 pm

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