April 2022

MPs and Lords will examine threats to undersea cables in a new inquiry launched today by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS).

PAC warns of an over-reliance on the use of temporary accommodation, due in part to a dwindling and increasingly costly housing stock

On 21 January 2025 the Committee considered e-petitions that had received over 10,000 signatures and received a Government response.

MPs will ask the senior leadership of NHS England whether the NHS is well placed to implement the Government’s three healthcare shifts, in an evidence session at 9:30am on Wednesday 29 January. 

Conduct Committee publishes report on the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Code of Conduct review

The Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Alistair Carmichael MP, has today written to the Prime Minister, following his appearance before the Liaison Committee on 19 December.

The Business and Trade Committee is making a quick call for evidence on variable pricing - practices like the ‘dynamic’ pricing that recently came to major public attention when fans queued online for hours to secure Oasis concert tickets, only to find the price had rocketed out of reach while they waited.

The Environmental Audit Committee will next week have the opportunity to explore the extent to which net zero is being considered in the development of Government policy across Whitehall.

Florence Eshalomi, Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has written to Rt Hon Angela Rayner, Secretary of State, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), to raise concerns about the impact of the freezing of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates.

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 January 1985 and footage is now available to watch online on the House of Lords YouTube channel

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is today launching the next of its thematic inquiries, on fisheries and the marine environment.

Members consider changes to draft law as committee stage concludes. Catch up

A new inquiry into Jobcentre reform has been launched by the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee. The inquiry is the first in a series from the Committee scrutinising proposals in the Government’s Get Britain Working white paper published on 26th November 2024. 

The PAC today publishes an exchange of letters between the Chair Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Sir Jim Harra, HMRC Chief Executive and First Permanent Secretary

On Monday 27 January, MPs will debate a petition relating to speech and language therapy.