March 2024
Read all the UK Parliament news for March 2024.
Free schools and academies focus of Lords debate
Members of the House debate merits of free schools. Catch up
24 January 2025
How vulnerable is the UK to undersea cable attacks?
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).
24 January 2025
Homelessness crisis places unsustainable pressure on local authorities' crumbling finances
PAC warns of an over-reliance on the use of temporary accommodation, due in part to a dwindling and increasingly costly housing stock
24 January 2025
Decisions of the Petitions Committee, 21 January 2025
On 21 January 2025 the Committee considered e-petitions that had received over 10,000 signatures and received a Government response.
23 January 2025
CEO of NHS to appear before the Health and Social Care Committee
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.
23 January 2025
Review of the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Code
Conduct Committee publishes report on the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Code of Conduct review
23 January 2025
EFRA Chair writes to PM on inheritance tax reforms
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.
23 January 2025
Ripoff Britain: Is variable pricing good for business? Good for consumers? Good for UK growth?
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.
23 January 2025
Airport expansion and energy-intensive AI roll-out: is net zero on the back burner? EAC quizzes Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
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.
23 January 2025
HCLG Committee presses Angela Rayner, Secretary of State, on the impact of housing benefits rates freeze, building safety, and English Devolution
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.
23 January 2025
40 years of broadcasting from the House of Lords
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
23 January 2025
Fisheries and the marine environment: EFRA launches its next thematic inquiry
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is today launching the next of its thematic inquiries, on fisheries and the marine environment.
23 January 2025
Lords completes checks on Great British Energy Bill
Members consider changes to draft law as committee stage concludes. Catch up
23 January 2025
Jobcentre reform inquiry launched
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.
23 January 2025
HMRC report follow-up: Letters exchanged between PAC Chair and tax authority’s chief executive
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
22 January 2025