January 2025

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.

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)

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.

Report from the Lords Science and Technology Committee published

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.

On Tuesday 14 January in Westminster Hall, MPs will hold a debate on railway services in the South West

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.

The new inquiry will examine what obligations the UK Government has under human rights law to respond to international crimes

International Development Committee publishes response to the UK Small Island Developing States Strategy report

The Scottish Affairs Committee launches an inquiry examining the pilot Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF) which opens in Glasgow’s East End today.  

Committee publishes FCDO response to disability and development report

Crown Estate Bill: call for evidence

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: call for evidence

Look back at some highlights from the week commencing 6 January from the Speaker of the House of Commons.