Monday, 31 March 2025
The Clerk at the Table having informed the House of the unavoidable absence of the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means took the Chair as Deputy Speaker ( Standing Order No. 3).
The Secretary of State was asked—
If she will review the pause in decisions on Syrian asylum claims.
What steps her Department is taking with police forces to tackle violence against women and girls.
What recent progress the defending democracy taskforce has made.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle shoplifting.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle violence against shop workers.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle the antisocial use of off-road bikes.
What steps her Department is taking to tackle mobile phone theft.
What steps she is taking to help tackle rural crime.
What her policy is on the use of live facial recognition technology by police forces.
Whether she has received legal advice on the compatibility of recent changes to her Department’s guidance entitled “Good character: caseworker guidance”, updated on 10 February...
What steps she is taking to help tackle people smuggling.
What steps her Department is taking to support police forces in Gloucestershire.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to make it clear that in the first question I asked, the number I intended to ask about was the 30,000 people who have illegally crossed the...
I call the shadow Foreign Secretary.
The heartbreaking scenes from Myanmar and Thailand over the weekend have shocked the world. I am sure I speak for those across the House in expressing our sincere condolences to all those...
With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to update the House on the statutory intervention at Birmingham city council and on the issues affecting the waste service. This Government...
Consideration of Lords message
I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 1B.
Motion made, and Question put, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 13B.—(Jim McMahon.)
Motion made, and Question put, That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 15B to 15E to the words restored to the Bill by the Lords non-insistence on their amendment 15.—(Jim McMahon.)
Consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee
“(1) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State must produce a report containing draft proposals for the establishment of a new executive agency, to be known as...
“(1) A body corporate known as Skills England is established to carry out the functions transferred to the Secretary of State under this Act. (2) At the end of a year after the passing of...
Amendment proposed: 6, page 5, line 6, leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert— “(1) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of one year beginning on the day on which...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025, which were laid before this House on 13 February, be approved.—(Kate Dearden.)
With the leave of the House, we will take motions 4 and 5 together.
Ordered, That Gill Furniss be discharged from the Administration Committee and Bambos Charalambous be added.
That Matt Bishop be discharged from the Finance Committee and Paul Davies be added.—(Jessica Morden, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Kate Dearden.)
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