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Thursday 22nd May

(7 days ago)
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Order Paper (22 May 2025)

Commons
Lords

Commons Chamber

Today's sitting hours: 9.30am - 5.30pm
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Department Questions

09:30

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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First 5 Oral Questions

Nick Timothy (Con)
1. If she will produce an impact assessment for the proposed Remote Betting and Gaming Duty on the British horseracing industry.

Lewis Cocking (Con)
2. What steps her Department is taking to help incentivise film production in the UK.

Luke Charters (Lab)
3. What recent discussions she has had with football leagues on ticket pricing for away fans.

Josh Simons (Lab)
4. What steps her Department is taking to support the provision of grassroots sports facilities in Makerfield constituency.

Josh Newbury (Lab)
5. What steps her Department is taking to support the provision of grassroots sports facilities in Cannock Chase constituency.

Topical Questioners

1. Melanie Onn (Lab)

2. Catherine Fookes (Lab)

3. Richard Tice (RUK)

4. Patrick Hurley (Lab)

5. John Glen (Con)

6. Josh Newbury (Lab)

7. Pete Wishart (SNP)

8. Josh Dean (Lab)

None

10:10

Church Commissioners and House of Commons Commission and Public Accounts Commission and Restoration and Renewal Client Board and Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission (including Topical Questions)

None

Urgent Question

Laura Trott
Conservative

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a statement on whether the Government plans to accept the School Teachers' Review Body’s recommendations for 2025-26

None

Statements

Ministry of Justice
Shabana Mahmood

Ministerial statement
Independent Sentencing Review

None

Leader of the House
Lucy Powell

Business Statement
Business Questions to the Leader of the House

None

Main Business

Consideration of Lords message
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

None

Statements

Liam Byrne
Labour

Select Committee Statement
Select Committee Statement on the Sixth Report of the Business and Trade Committee, How to strengthen UK-EU relations: Policy Priorities for the Summit, HC 908

None

Peter Swallow
Labour

Select Committee Statement
Select Committee Statement on the Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Legislative Scrutiny: Mental Health Bill, HC 601

None

Main Business

Melanie Onn
Labour

Backbench Business
General Debate on access to NHS dentistry

None

Statements

17:00
Ministry of Defence
John Healey

Ministerial statement
Diego Garcia Military Base

None

Adjournment Debate

17:00
Markus Campbell-Savours
Labour

A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project

None

Westminster Hall

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Today's sitting hours: 1.30pm - 4.30pm

13:30

EU-UK summit
Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow)

None

General Committee

11:30
Room 10, Palace of Westminster

Further to consider the Bill
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

None

14:00
Room 10, Palace of Westminster

Further to consider the Bill
Planning and Infrastructure Bill

None

Lords Chamber

Main Business

11:00

Introduction(s)
Lord Gove

None

Department Questions

Lord Bishop of St Albans
Bishops

Recent steps taken towards securing the release of Jimmy Lai

None

Baroness Pitkeathley
Labour

Progress in cross-party talks on the reform of social care

None

Baroness Blower
Labour

Plans to improve young people’s media literacy by providing additional resources to schools, in terms of IT equipment, staffing, training and appropriate curriculum materials

None

Lord Bishop of Newcastle
Bishops

Sutton Trust’s Opportunity Index and plans to increase opportunities for social mobility in the UK

None

Statements

Lord Collins of Highbury
Labour

Statement
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

None

Main Business

Department for International Development
Baroness Smith of Malvern

Legislation
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - committee stage (day 2)

None

19:00

Estimated rising time

None

Select & Joint Committees

10:00
Room 4, Palace of Westminster

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Environment and Climate Change Committee
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At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra
Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra

10:00
Room 4, Palace of Westminster

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Environment and Climate Change Committee
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At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra
Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra
Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for International Nature, Climate and Development at Defra
Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra

10:00
Room 4, Palace of Westminster

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Environment and Climate Change Committee
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At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra
Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra
Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for Clean Waters at Defra
Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra

10:00
Room 4, Palace of Westminster

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Environment and Climate Change Committee
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At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra
Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra
Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for Clean Waters at Defra
Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra
Claire Northridge - Deputy Director for Services and Regulation Policy at Defra

10:05
Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Social Mobility Policy
Social Mobility Policy Committee

None

Friday 23rd May

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Monday 26th May

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Tuesday 27th May

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Wednesday 28th May

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Thursday 29th May

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Friday 30th May

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Monday 2nd June

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Commons
Lords

Commons Chamber

Today's sitting hours: 2.30pm - 10.30pm
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Department Questions

14:30

Home Office
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First 5 Oral Questions

Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
1. What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of UK Visas and Immigration processing times.

Peter Swallow (Lab)
2. What recent progress her Department has made on improving neighbourhood policing in Bracknell Forest.

Darren Paffey (Lab)
3. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle the antisocial use of off-road bikes.

Amanda Hack (Lab)
4. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle violence against shopworkers in rural areas.

Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
5. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of creating a visa scheme for people in Gaza related to UK nationals.

Topical Questioners

1. David Simmonds (Con)

2. Ruth Cadbury (Lab)

3. John Lamont (Con)

4. Peter Lamb (Lab)

5. Jake Richards (Lab)

6. Chi Onwurah (Lab)

7. Wendy Morton (Con)

8. Amanda Hack (Lab)

9. Julie Minns (Lab)

10. Lee Pitcher (Lab)

None

Main Business

Legislation
Bus Services (No.2) Bill [HL]: Second reading

None

Jessica Morden
Labour

Motion on behalf of the Committee of Selection
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)

None

Jessica Morden
Labour

Motion on behalf of the Committee of Selection
Women and Equalities Committee

None

Adjournment Debate

22:00
Steve Witherden
Labour

Arms and military cargo export controls and Israel

None

Westminster Hall

An alternative Chamber to debate topics without a vote being called.
Today's sitting hours: 4.30pm - 7.30pm

16:30

e-petition 700014, relating to decriminalising abortion
Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran)

None

General Committee

18:00
Department of Health and Social Care Room 9, Palace of Westminster

First Delegated Legislation Committee
The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025

None

18:00
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Room 11, Palace of Westminster

Second Delegated Legislation Committee
The draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

None

18:00

Football Governance Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committee - Private Meeting

None

Select & Joint Committees

16:30
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Environmental Audit Committee - Private Meeting

None

Lords Chamber

Main Business

14:30

Introduction(s)
The Rt Hon. Simon Hart and Baroness Prentis of Banbury

None

Department Questions

Lord Cashman
Non-affiliated

Ratifying Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights

None

Baroness Rawlings
Conservative

BBC World Service

None

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
Labour

Draft Protection of Children Codes published by Ofcom

None

Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Labour

Campaign for Better Transport's proposals on the usage of the Channel Tunnel

None

Main Business

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Labour

Legislation
Data (Use and Access) Bill - Lords Consideration of Commons Amendments

None

Home Office
Lord Hanson of Flint

Legislation
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - second reading

None

Select & Joint Committees

14:00
Room 3, Palace of Westminster

Home-based Working
Home-based Working Committee

None

14:30
Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

Autism Act 2009
Autism Act 2009 Committee

None

15:30
Room 2, Palace of Westminster

UK Engagement with Space
UK Engagement with Space Committee - Private Meeting

None

Tuesday 3rd June

(5 days ahead)
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Commons
Lords

Commons Chamber

Today's sitting hours: 11.30am - 7.30pm
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Department Questions

11:30

Ministry of Justice
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First 5 Oral Questions

Chris Webb (Lab)
1. What steps her Department is taking to help reduce reoffending by young offenders.

Graham Stuart (Con)
2. What steps she is taking to help reduce the court backlog.

Sarah Green (LD)
3. What steps she is taking to support survivors of domestic abuse and violence against women through the criminal justice system.

Warinder Juss (Lab)
4. What steps her Department is taking to help reduce reoffending by people on probation.

John Milne (LD)
5. When the Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services plans to meet with the hon. Member for Horsham's constituent Andrew Turner to discuss locked Child Trust Funds.

Topical Questioners

1. Susan Murray (LD)

2. Gregory Stafford (Con)

3. Andrew Snowden (Con)

4. Shaun Davies (Lab)

5. Desmond Swayne (Con)

6. Charlotte Cane (LD)

7. Alex Baker (Lab)

8. Mark Ferguson (Lab)

9. Marie Goldman (LD)

10. Victoria Collins (LD)

None

Main Business

Jayne Kirkham
Labour (Co-op)

Ten Minute Rule Motion
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (Report on Commissioner)

None

Consideration of Lords amendments
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments

None

Consideration of Lords amendments
If necessary, Consideration of a Lords Message

None

Backbench Business
General debate on dementia care

None

Adjournment Debate

19:00
Adam Dance
Liberal Democrat

Closure of Yeovil Hospital's maternity unit

None

Westminster Hall

An alternative Chamber to debate topics without a vote being called.
Today's sitting hours: 9.30am - 11.30am & 2.30pm - 5.30pm