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Thursday 3rd April

(7 days ago)
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Order Paper (3 Apr 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

Paul Waugh (LAB)
1. What steps her Department is taking to help promote rugby league.

Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
2. What steps she is taking to allocate funding to grassroots sports facilities in Cardiff West constituency.

John Whittingdale (Con)
3. What discussions she has had with representatives of the creative industries on the use of AI.

Joe Powell (Lab)
4. What steps her Department is taking to reduce gambling harms.

Seamus Logan (SNP)
5. If she will have discussions with Ofcom on extending the list of events designated as free to air.

Topical Questioners

1. Sarah Smith (Lab)

2. Ayoub Khan (Ind)

3. Perran Moon (Lab)

4. Gordon McKee (Lab)

5. Callum Anderson (Lab)

6. Josh Newbury (Lab)

7. Helen Morgan (LD)

8. Jim Dickson (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

None

Statements

Leader of the House
Lucy Powell

Business Statement
Business Questions to the Leader of the House

None

Department for Business and Trade
Jonathan Reynolds

Ministerial statement
UK-US Trade and Tariffs

None

Florence Eshalomi
Labour (Co-op)

Select Committee Statement
Select Committee Statement on the First Report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, England’s Homeless Children: The crisis in temporary accommodation, HC 338

None

Main Business

Sorcha Eastwood
Alliance

Backbench Business
General debate on the impact of digital platforms on UK democracy

None

Leigh Ingham
Labour

Backbench Business
General debate on access to sport and P.E. in schools

None

Adjournment Debate

17:00
Tom Gordon
Liberal Democrat

Adoption breakdown

None

Westminster Hall

An alternative Chamber to debate topics without a vote being called.
Today's sitting hours: 1.30pm - 4.30pm

13:30

Waste incinerators
Baggy Shanker (LAB - Derby South)

None

15:00

Government support for Thames Water
Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam)

None

Select & Joint Committees

09:30
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Local Government Financial Sustainability
Public Accounts Committee

None

General Committee

11:30
Room 14, Palace of Westminster

Further to consider the Bill
Crime and Policing Bill

None

14:00
Room 14, Palace of Westminster

Further to consider the Bill
Crime and Policing Bill

None

Lords Chamber

Main Business

11:00

Royal Assent
Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Act 2025; Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025; National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1; Contributions) Act 2025; Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act 2025

None

Department Questions

Lord Harries of Pentregarth
Crossbench

January poll published by FGS Global which found that one in five people aged 18 to 45 in the UK prefer unelected strong leaders to democracy

None

Viscount Stansgate
Labour

Reducing the reported delays in holding funerals because of changes in the provision of death certificates

None

Baroness Kramer
Liberal Democrat

Implementation of Basel 3.1 on measures by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Treasury to address base erosion and profit shifting

None

Lord Crisp
Crossbench

Ensuring that aid reaches those affected by the earthquake in Myanmar

None

Main Business

Department of Health and Social Care
Baroness Merron

Urgent Question Repeat
NHS pensions

None

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Baroness Chapman of Darlington

Urgent Question Repeat
Bosnia-Herzegovina

None

Statements

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Labour

Statement
Sentencing council guidelines

None

Main Business

Lord Roborough
Conservative

Debate
The impact of the Government’s economic and planning measures on farming and rural communities

None

Lord Verdirame
Non-affiliated

Short debate
Assessment of the announcement by NATO allies that they intend to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel landmines and the Convention on Cluster Munitions

None

Lord Offord of Garvel
Conservative

Debate
The affordability of achieving the net zero emissions target by 2050

None

Statements

Department for Business and Trade
Baroness Gustafsson

Statement
UK-US Trade and Tariffs

None

Main Business

19:30

Estimated rising time

None

Select & Joint Committees

10:05
Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Social Mobility Policy
Social Mobility Policy Committee

None

Friday 4th April

(6 days ago)
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Commons
Lords

The Commons is not sitting on this day

The Lords is not sitting on this day

Monday 7th April

(3 days ago)
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Order Paper (7 Apr 2025)

Commons
Lords

Commons Chamber

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

14:30

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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First 5 Oral Questions

Peter Swallow (Lab)
1. What steps she is taking to build new towns.

Irene Campbell (Lab)
2. What steps her Department is taking to provide safe accommodation for victims of domestic abuse.

Cameron Thomas (LD)
3. What steps she is taking to ensure that new homes are sustainable.

Katie Lam (Con)
4. What steps she plans to take to support housebuilding in London.

Uma Kumaran (Lab)
5. What steps her Department is taking to work with local councils to prevent homelessness.

Topical Questioners

1. David Davis (Con)

2. Darren Paffey (Lab)

3. Rachel Taylor (Lab)

4. Joe Morris (Lab)

5. Peter Swallow (Lab)

6. Lee Anderson (RUK)

7. Wendy Morton (Con)

8. Rachel Hopkins (Lab)

9. Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)

10. Helen Maguire (LD)

None

Urgent Question

Martin Vickers
Conservative

To ask the Secretary of State for Business & Trade, if he will make a statement on Government action to prevent the closure of Scunthorpe Steelworks

None

Statements

Department for Transport
Heidi Alexander

Ministerial statement
Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate

None

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Hamish Falconer

Ministerial statement
Israeli authorities' detention and refusal of entry for two UK MPs

None

Main Business

General debate
Road maintenance

None

General debate
Neighbourhood policing and tackling town centre crime

None

Jessica Morden
Labour

Motion on behalf of the Committee of Selection
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

None

Adjournment Debate

22:00
Michael Payne
Labour

Local authorities and economic growth in the East Midlands

None

Select & Joint Committees

13:00
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Foreign Affairs Committee - Private Meeting

None

14:00
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House

The Seventh Carbon Budget
Environmental Audit Committee
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At 2:15pm: Oral evidence
Emma Pinchbeck - Chief Executive at Climate Change Committee
Professor Piers Forster - Interim Chair at Climate Change Committee
Dr James Richardson - Chief Economist and Director of Analysis at Climate Change Committee

14:00
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Proposals for the Seventh Carbon Budget
Environmental Audit Committee
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15:00
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Work of the Department of Business and Trade
Public Accounts Committee

None

15:00
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Work of the Department for Business and Trade
Public Accounts Committee

None

19:00
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Health and Social Care Committee - Private Meeting

None

Lords Chamber

Tuesday 8th April

(2 days ago)
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Order Paper (8 Apr 2025)

Commons
Lords

Commons Chamber

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

11:30

HM Treasury
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First 5 Oral Questions

Danny Beales (Lab)
1. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase housebuilding.

Paul Waugh (LAB)
2. What steps she is taking to help tackle tax evasion.

Deirdre Costigan (Lab)
3. What steps she is taking through the Spending Review to help increase levels of economic growth.

Andrew George (LD)
4. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of her tax policies on investment in second homes.

Rupa Huq (Lab)
5. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase the affordability of new homes.

Topical Questioners

1. Oliver Dowden (Con)

2. Douglas McAllister (Lab)

3. Vikki Slade (LD)

4. Wendy Morton (Con)

5. Richard Holden (Con)

6. Catherine Atkinson (Lab)

7. Oliver Ryan (Ind)

8. Dan Tomlinson (Lab)

9. Allison Gardner (Lab)

10. Jess Brown-Fuller (LD)

None

Urgent Question

Alex Burghart
Conservative

Impact of EU tariffs on the US on the Northern Irish economy

None

Statements

Home Office
Jess Phillips

Ministerial statement
Tackling Child Sexual Abuse

None

Department for Business and Trade
Gareth Thomas

Ministerial statement
Horizon redress and Post Office

None

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour

Select Committee Statement
Select Committee Statement on the Fourth Report of the Defence Committee, The Armed Forces Covenant, HC 572

None

Main Business

Polly Billington
Labour

Ten Minute Rule Motion
Energy (Social Tariff)

None

Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party

Backbench Business
General debate on potential merits of awarding a posthumous Victoria Cross to Blair Mayne

None

Bob Blackman
Conservative

Backbench Business
General debate on matters to be raised before the forthcoming Adjournment

None

Adjournment Debate

19:00
Joy Morrissey
Conservative

Hospice funding

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