Monday, 9 February 2026
The Secretary of State was asked—
How many asylum seekers were accommodated in hotels on (a) 30 September 2025 and (b) 30 June 2024.
What steps she is taking to help ensure effective policing in rural areas.
What steps her Department is taking to close asylum hotels.
What recent progress her Department has made on implementing the violence against women and girls strategy.
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to indefinite leave to remain on the number of people living in poverty.
What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the EU’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group.
What steps her Department is taking to reduce pull factors for migrants seeking to arrive in the UK illegally.
If she will have discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of the opening of papers relating to the murder of Martha Giles in 1959.
What steps her Department is taking to use technology to increase police efficiency.
What steps she is taking to help ensure in-person access to police services.
What steps her Department is taking to support victims of domestic violence.
What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle money laundering by high street businesses.
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 she will make a statement on the 20-year sentence imposed on our brave British citizen, Jimmy Lai.
Last week, I came to the House in the wake of information released by the United States Department of Justice about the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey...
Ordered, That, at this day’s sitting, (i) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of Standing Order No. 22D relating to the scheduling of select committee statements, a...
Select Committee statement
[Relevant document: Twelfth Report of the Business and Trade Committee, UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), HC 996.]
I call Dame Siobhain McDonagh, who will speak for up to 15 minutes.
Ordered, That Luke Akehurst, Alex Ballinger, Sarah Bool, Juliet Campbell, Al Carns, Pam Cox, Clive Efford, Mr Paul Foster, Mr Mark Francois, Gerald Jones, Jayne Kirkham, Mike Martin, David Reed,...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Gen Kitchen.)
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