The House of Commons adjourned on Thursday 22 May for Whitsun recess and will next sit on Monday 2 June at 2.30pm. Business scheduled in the week returning from recess: ...

The Public Bill Committee will meet for the first time on Tuesday 17 June 2025 to scrutinise the Victims and Courts Bill line by line. and is expected to report by 5.00pm on Thurs ...

At a conference hosted in London by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons – the representatives heard that AI could have multiple applications in Parliaments.

Members of the House of Lords continue their detailed examination of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in committee stage.

The Mental Health Bill [Lords] was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 November 2024 and had its second reading on 19 May 2025. There will be no oral evidence sessions held for this Bill.

Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting ...

The Data (Use and Access) Bill returned to the House of Lords for consideration of Commons amendments in ‘ping pong’, on Monday 19 May. The aim of the Data (Use and Access) Bill is to harness the ...

MPs to hear from vice-chancellors on challenges facing universities in Wales Vice-chancellors or senior representatives from Wales’ nine universities are to appear before MPs in a one-off session ...

The Recording Angel memorial in St Stephen's Porch, Westminster Hall, is dedicated to Peers, MPs, officers and their sons. This memorial is the main memorial to Members and staff of both Houses, ...

Read transcripts of debates in both Houses.

Barbara Castle (1910-2002) served on St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council from 1937 until the end of the Second World War, she was elected as MP for Blackburn in July 1945 serving till 1979. During ...

The West Lothian Question refers to the perceived imbalance between the voting rights in the House of Commons of MPs from Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland constituencies and those of MPs from ...