2024
What should MPs put under the microscope? Pitch an idea to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Today, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee launches a call for your ideas on what it should look at next.
15 January 2025
SEND emergency: Unviable system will end in lost generation of children without reform
With outcomes for children stalled, families’ confidence undermined and two-fifths of local authorities staring down bankruptcy, PAC report issues urgent warning
15 January 2025
What's on in the Lords 13-17 January
Discover what's coming up in the House of Lords this week.
15 January 2025
New inquiry: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
The Foreign Affairs Committee has today launched a new inquiry into the threat that disinformation campaigns pose to the UK and UK interests.
15 January 2025
‘Time to grieve’: case for statutory miscarriage bereavement leave is ‘overwhelming’
MPs on the cross-party committee raised concerns that progress towards recognising the grief of those who experience pre-24 week pregnancy losses “does not go far enough”
15 January 2025
Call for evidence published on the energy grid and grid connections
The Industry and Regulators Committee has today published a call for evidence into the energy grid and grid connections.
14 January 2025
Health and Social Care Committee asks its Expert Panel to undertake evaluation of the state of palliative care in England
The Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, Layla Moran MP, and the Chair of the Committee’s Expert Panel, Professor Dame Jane Dacre, have written to the Health and Social Care Secretary, to inform him that the Expert Panel will be conducting an independent evaluation of the state of palliative care in England.
14 January 2025
Timeliness in responses to Written Parliamentary Questions improves in 2023–24
The House of Commons Procedure Committee has today published its report on timeliness of responses to Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs) in the last Parliamentary Session (2023-24)
14 January 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee: What is the FCDO’s plan B in Gaza?
The Foreign Affairs Committee is today (Tuesday 14 January) publishing three letters received by the Committee – one from UNRWA and two from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) – as part of its inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
14 January 2025
UK must turbocharge its innovation policy to harness engineering biology, say peers
Report from the Lords Science and Technology Committee published
14 January 2025
Defence Committee: GCAP timescale is ambitious and Gov’t must keep pace
The Defence Committee has today (14 January) published a report on the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), welcoming the programme’s progress but cautioning the need to stay on track to meet the in-service target date of 2035.
14 January 2025
MPs to hold a debate on railway services in the South West
On Tuesday 14 January in Westminster Hall, MPs will hold a debate on railway services in the South West
13 January 2025
When will the energy transition bring down bills? Secretary of State Ed Miliband makes first select committee appearance on Wednesday
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero states its mission as being “responsible for UK energy security, protecting bill payers and reaching net zero”. Rt Hon Ed Miliband will face Committee questions on the UK’s clean energy transition and progress towards its legally binding target of a net zero economy by 2050.
13 January 2025
New inquiry into Daesh crimes - Has the UK met its human rights obligations?
The new inquiry will examine what obligations the UK Government has under human rights law to respond to international crimes
13 January 2025
IDC Chair: Government must ratify UN Global Oceans Treaty
International Development Committee publishes response to the UK Small Island Developing States Strategy report
13 January 2025