Information since 20 May 2025, 11:08 p.m.
Calendar |
---|
Tuesday 28th October 2025 Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Employment Rights Bill - consideration of Commons amendments Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar |
Tuesday 14th October 2025 Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Labour - Life peer) Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Renters’ Rights Bill - consideration of Commons amendments Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar |
Monday 15th September 2025 Consideration of Lords amendments - Main Chamber Subject: Consideration of Lords amendments to the Employment Rights Bill View calendar - Add to calendar |
Monday 8th September 2025 Legislation - Main Chamber Subject: Renters' Rights Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 View calendar - Add to calendar |
Parliamentary Debates |
---|
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
159 speeches (44,465 words) Thursday 18th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) Regrettably, due to the Employment Rights Bill, we are seeing fewer and fewer such opportunities for - Link to Speech 2: Lord Norton of Louth (Con - Life peer) The wording is the same as that of an amendment I tabled to the Employment Rights Bill and has the same - Link to Speech |
Making Tax Digital
21 speeches (1,526 words) Wednesday 17th September 2025 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Government impose yet more onerous regulations on small businesses, such as through the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Minister’s point about the impact assessment, the Government’s own impact assessment of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights: Impact on Businesses
44 speeches (8,581 words) Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Employment Rights Bill will see those costs rise dramatically from next April. - Link to Speech 2: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) She is talking about the impact of the Employment Rights Bill. How can that be? - Link to Speech 3: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) It would be more apt to call it the unemployment rights Bill. - Link to Speech 4: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) The Employment Rights Bill is the legislative backbone of that promise. - Link to Speech |
Economic Growth
21 speeches (1,668 words) Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) Minister, will he persuade his new colleagues of what every employer is saying, that the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) Will the Minister think again on the Employment Rights Bill, conveniently now coming back to the House - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill
0 speeches (None words) Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Lords Chamber |
Employment Rights Bill
178 speeches (28,836 words) Consideration of Lords amendments Monday 15th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) improvements in workers’ rights for a generation, as part of the Labour Government’s Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) The vast majority of the Employment Rights Bill is very much to be welcomed. - Link to Speech 3: None In that context, I brought forward my original amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, specifically - Link to Speech 4: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) and taking it thus far.I welcome the return of the Employment Rights Bill and the opportunity to - Link to Speech 5: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) I am doing that today and I am voting for them today.Finally, the Employment Rights Bill is not just - Link to Speech |
Point of Order
5 speeches (603 words) Monday 15th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 17 October, and to be printed (Bill 305).Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
229 speeches (67,513 words) Committee stage Monday 15th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) We have seen this in the Employment Rights Bill, where—as we finally discovered through debate in this - Link to Speech |
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
188 speeches (55,560 words) 2nd reading Friday 12th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) it, four days have been allocated between now and Christmas to consider the Bill—the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) tenants, to mention two Bills that have recently passed through your Lordships’ House—the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Youth Unemployment
17 speeches (1,784 words) Thursday 11th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con - Life peer) Merck has pulled the plug on a £1 billion research site, and the prospect of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
39 speeches (10,950 words) Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) afforded the same basic protection.We debated a similar issue during the passage of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I will speak very briefly, because we had much the same debate in the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) I am aware of the outcome of the vote on Report of the Employment Rights Bill on a similar amendment - Link to Speech |
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
136 speeches (40,189 words) Report stage Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Today, however, I want to advocate mainly for clean air, as the promoter of the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill - Link to Speech |
Stockton and Darlington Railway: 200th Anniversary Festival
36 speeches (8,065 words) Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) just such a barrier to volunteering and sought to remove it during consideration of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Equality Act 2010: Impact on British Society
30 speeches (11,141 words) Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Act 2010 and remain committed to improving equality and fairness for all through our Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Renters’ Rights Bill
0 speeches (None words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber |
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
101 speeches (34,622 words) Committee stage part one Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) They are part of the Renters’ Rights Bill, and we have had very useful meetings with the noble Lord. - Link to Speech |
Oral Answers to Questions
168 speeches (10,823 words) Monday 8th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) support bringing all military housing in line with the decent homes standard in today’s Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Point of Order
5 speeches (343 words) Monday 8th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Mentions: 1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) Chamber—that in itself would be a full-time job—but he has put his point on the record.Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Labour Market
21 speeches (1,765 words) Monday 8th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Will the Government now finally commit to reforming the provisions in the Employment Rights Bill, so - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) The Government remain committed to our Employment Rights Bill. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister confirm that there will be no rollback of any part of the Employment Rights Bill? - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) have said before, I can reassure the House that the Government are committed to their Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Indefinite Leave to Remain
152 speeches (28,751 words) Monday 8th September 2025 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) That element of the Employment Rights Bill will be a great boon, fillip, support and protection for those - Link to Speech |
Renters’ Rights Bill
61 speeches (12,268 words) Monday 8th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Our Renters’ Rights Bill does just that, and it needs to receive Royal Assent as quickly as possible - Link to Speech 2: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) tenants were left to suffer, so Liberal Democrats absolutely welcome this Government’s Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
167 speeches (48,736 words) Committee stage Monday 8th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: None Much of Clause 45 is required because of the Employment Rights Bill. - Link to Speech |
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
184 speeches (24,276 words) Consideration of Lords amendments Thursday 4th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) have been trying to hold the Government hostage on the Football Governance Bill, the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Business of the House
194 speeches (17,047 words) Thursday 4th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) have shown on whose side they stand in this Session: on the side of landlords against the Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) law is a great achievement of the Government’s first year, and the completion of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend is right to say that bringing rail back into public ownership and our Employment Rights Bill are - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
---|
Thursday 25th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter to Baroness Morris of Yardley, Chair, Public Services Committee to Georgia Gould MP, Minister for School Standards, Department for Education, re Think work first report (25 September 2025) Public Services Committee Found: alleviate pressures on the Employment Tribunals and ensure rights granted through the Employment Rights Bill |
Friday 19th September 2025
Special Report - 6th Special Report - Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave: Government Response Women and Equalities Committee Found: That is why, through the Employment Rights Bill, we will ensure that Paternity Leave and Unpaid Parental |
Thursday 18th September 2025
Written Evidence - National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) FES0260 - Further Education and Skills Further Education and Skills - Education Committee Found: RMT strongly welcome the Government’s measures in the Employment Rights Bill to improve pay and working |
Thursday 18th September 2025
Written Evidence - British Chambers of Commerce FES0232 - Further Education and Skills Further Education and Skills - Education Committee Found: increasing and cumulative cost of employment, together with forthcoming changes in the Employment Rights Bill |
Thursday 18th September 2025
Written Evidence - UNISON FES0221 - Further Education and Skills Further Education and Skills - Education Committee Found: The Employment Rights Bill introduces specific national bargaining bodies for support staff in schools |
Wednesday 17th September 2025
Agendas and papers - Special Inquiry Committee proposals 2026 Liaison Committee (Lords) Found: For example, and serving as a case in point, the recent Employment Rights Bill focused on policy and |
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter from the Secretary of State relating to the Employments Rights Bill, 15 September 2025 Business and Trade Committee Found: Letter from the Secretary of State relating to the Employments Rights Bill, 15 September 2025 Correspondence |
Sunday 14th September 2025
Report - 10th Report – US Economic Prosperity Deal Business and Trade Committee Found: In March 2025, the Business and Trade Committee published a report on the Employment Rights Bill, in |
Friday 12th September 2025
Attendance statistics - Members' attendance 2024-24 ( as at 23 July 2025) Backbench Business Committee Found: 10 December, 17 December, 7 January and 14 January while attending meetings of the Employment Rights Bill |
Friday 12th September 2025
Written Evidence - National Residential Landlords Association HCE0039 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: Pending clarification on detailed questions, we support many of the provisions in the Renters’ Rights Bill |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Professor Stephen Sinclair, Bevan Foundation, and Barnardo's NI Education Committee Found: There is a great opportunity with the Employment Rights Bill, which is a UK reserved matter. |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Professor Stephen Sinclair, Bevan Foundation, and Barnardo's NI Education Committee Found: There is a great opportunity with the Employment Rights Bill, which is a UK reserved matter. |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Children's Commissioner for Scotland, Children's Commissioner for Wales, and Norther Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People Education Committee Found: There is a great opportunity with the Employment Rights Bill, which is a UK reserved matter. |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Children's Commissioner for Scotland, Children's Commissioner for Wales, and Norther Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People Education Committee Found: There is a great opportunity with the Employment Rights Bill, which is a UK reserved matter. |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Special Report - 5th Special Report - Misogyny in music: on repeat: Government Response Women and Equalities Committee Found: Committee asked the Government to respond to those recommendations pertaining to the Employment Rights Bill |
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Special Report - Large Print - 5th Special Report - Misogyny in music: on repeat: Government Response Women and Equalities Committee Found: Committee asked the Government to respond to those recommendations pertaining to the Employment Rights Bill |
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Reforming the water sector - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: me pivoting away from DEFRA for a moment, that is why I am so hugely supportive of the Workers’ Rights Bill |
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Oral Evidence - 2025-09-09 10:00:00+01:00 Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: We are also very pleased to see better security of tenure under the Renters’ Rights Bill, which will |
Monday 8th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter to the Secretary of State relating to the Employment Rights Bill, 8 September 2025 Business and Trade Committee Found: Letter to the Secretary of State relating to the Employment Rights Bill, 8 September 2025 Correspondence |
Thursday 4th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Care relating to the 55th Report of Session 2022-23, DHSC Integrated Care Systems, Rec 3a, 22 August 2025 Public Accounts Committee Found: establishing the adult social care Fair Pay Agreement, currently being introduced through the Employment Rights Bill |
Thursday 4th September 2025
Written Evidence - Chartered Institute of Environmental Health HCE0067 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: Executive summary We welcome the Renters’ Rights Bill but are concerned about the large enforcement |
Thursday 4th September 2025
Written Evidence - Building Research Establishment (BRE) HCE0071 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: Does the Renters’ Rights Bill go far enough to address poor housing conditions in the private rented |
Thursday 4th September 2025
Written Evidence - Centre for Ageing Better HCE0031 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: the Decent Homes Standard, its extension to the private rented sector, Awaab’s Law, the Renters’ Rights Bill |
Written Answers |
---|
Transport for Underground: Strikes
Asked by: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 2nd October 2025 Question to the Department for Transport: To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 applies to Transport for London, and what discussions they have had with Transport for London about the use of the powers in that Act. Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport) The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 would apply to Transport for London. However, the Government announced on 6 August that it will repeal the Act as part of the Employment Rights Bill which is currently at Final Stages in the Lords. The Act was unworkable for public transport when it was passed.
|
Industry and Labour Market
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (Plaid Cymru - Life peer) Wednesday 1st October 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of labour market statistics up to July, and what plans they have to target industrial development investment in areas where employment rates are lowest. Answered by Lord Leong - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) This Government assesses the labour market as resilient and strong by historic standards, with high employment and falling inactivity. However, we recognise ongoing challenges, particularly for young people and those with health conditions. The Employment Rights Bill will support improvements by enhancing protections, expanding flexible working, and tackling insecure contracts. These reforms are central to our Plan to Make Work Pay, ensuring a fairer, more inclusive labour market that supports both economic growth and individual opportunity.
The Industrial Strategy is a 10-year plan to back our strengths and realise Britain’s potential. Through the Industrial Strategy we are targeting investment towards our eight-growth driving sectors (IS-8). All regions benefit from the Industrial Strategy’s national policy offer – there are clusters of the IS-8 sectors across the whole country, and our package addresses the biggest constraints to growth highlighted by businesses in these sectors. Regions across the UK will also benefit from a targeted and ambitious place policy package, focussing our efforts on the city regions and clusters where the IS8 concentrate. |
NHS: Employment Rights Bill
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire) Wednesday 1st October 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on industrial action in the NHS. Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) The Government is committed to reforming trade union legislation, to bring it into the 21st century. We want to create an industrial relations framework fit for a modern economy and workplaces that work for everyone. The Department of Business and Trade has published an overarching economic analysis of the Employment Rights Bill, namely the Employment Rights Bill economic analysis, a copy of which is attached. It has also published a specific impact assessment on the repeal of the Trade Union Act 2016, the Repeal of the Trade Union Act 2016, a copy of which is also attached. |
Rents: Appeals
Asked by: Lord Carter of Haslemere (Crossbench - Life peer) Monday 29th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask His Majesty's Government under what circumstances they expect the use of the powers in the Renters' Rights Bill to change the date from which a new rent is payable in rent appeal cases brought before First-tier Tribunal Property Chamber. Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The government is committed to empowering tenants to challenge unreasonable rent increases, to protect tenants from undue financial hardship and prevent rent hikes being used as a form of backdoor eviction once Section 21 notices have been abolished. We recognise that there is inherent uncertainty as to the volume of rent increase challenges that will be brought when the tenancy reforms in the Renters’ Rights Bill come into force. This is why we have put in place a proportionate safeguard for use in circumstances where it has become clear that the Tribunal system is on course to be overwhelmed. We intend to use the power if the Tribunal appears at risk of being overwhelmed by a sharp increase in challenges and it has become necessary to avoid lengthy delays for genuine cases to be heard. It will be subject to the affirmative procedure, to allow appropriate parliamentary scrutiny. |
Employment: Harassment
Asked by: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 25th September 2025 Question To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish statutory guidance that defines what constitutes "all reasonable steps" for the purposes of clause 21 of the Employment Rights Bill; and if so, when. Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) The Government will ensure businesses have clear guidance on clause 21 (harassment by third parties) of the Employment Rights Bill in advance of the new legislation coming into force in October 2026. |
Employment: Periods
Asked by: Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour (Co-op) - Bathgate and Linlithgow) Wednesday 24th September 2025 Question To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) regulations and (b) guidance for the Employment Rights Bill will require relevant employers to consider whether people with menstrual health conditions are adequately supported by workplace equality action plans. Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) We recognise the impact that many different conditions related to menstruation can have on a woman’s ability to perform at her best; introducing action plans will encourage steps that benefit women with these conditions. Crucially, we believe that plans will open up space to have broader discussions about women’s health in the workplace.
In formulating action plans, and accompanying guidance, we will recognise that there are actions that can help people in a range of circumstances. Officials have been engaging with employers as well as a range of organisations in the women’s health space, including those looking specifically at menstrual conditions, as part of policy development. They will continue to do so as the work progresses, and when devising supporting guidance. |
Small Businesses: Statutory Sick Pay
Asked by: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative - Life peer) Tuesday 23rd September 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of immediate sick pay entitlement on small businesses. Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) The government conducted a Regulatory Impact Assessment (which can be found in the attached document) on the changes to strengthen Statutory Sick Pay in the Employment Rights Bill, which was published on 21 October 2024. This includes the impacts on small businesses. Furthermore, the government intends to conduct a post-implementation review of the Employment Rights Bill within five years of implementation.
|
Bereavement Leave
Asked by: Luke Murphy (Labour - Basingstoke) Friday 19th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals for statutory paid bereavement leave (a) for people grieving the loss of a loved one to suicide and (b) in general. Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) The loss of a loved one is one of the hardest things a person can experience. This is why we have introduced a new right to bereavement leave in the Employment Rights Bill which will be available to those grieving the loss of a loved one, including to suicide. The Bill deals with the introduction of leave only, and we will be consulting further on the detail this Autumn. However, it will be at employers' discretion to offer pay, as many already do. |
Private Rented Housing: Regulation
Asked by: James Cleverly (Conservative - Braintree) Wednesday 17th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of higher levels of regulation in the private rented sector on the number of people who are unable to rent privately and in need of local authority temporary accommodation. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) An Impact Assessment (IA) for the Renters’ Rights Bill was published in November 2024. It can be found on gov.uk here.
The IA makes clear that the reduction in forced evictions could result in a reduced number of households at risk of becoming homeless, with section 21 evictions currently the second leading cause of homelessness. This will in turn reduce the costs to the public purse and wider society of temporary accommodation. |
Multiple Occupation
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool Walton) Tuesday 16th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of (a) trends in the level of houses in multiple occupation and (b) the potential impact of those trends on local communities. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) can play an important part in the housing market, providing relatively low-cost accommodation for rent.
Local planning authorities already have powers to limit the proliferation of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) through ‘Article 4’ directions.
In addition to the mandatory licensing of large HMOs, local areas can also choose to require smaller HMOs to be licenced to ensure such properties are safe and well managed, and that the character of local communities are protected.
Local authorities have robust powers to ensure landlords of HMOs comply with all relevant regulations. This includes powers to issue civil penalties, prosecute landlords and obtain banning orders.
No recent assessments of the trends in the level of HMOs, or of the potential impacts of these trends on local communities, have been made.
The Renters’ Rights Bill introduces reforms to improve the regulation of private rented sector properties, including HMOs, and drive-up standards within the sector. This includes a Decent Homes Standard and new enforcement powers for local authorities.
My Department will continue to engage with local authorities on a range of local issues, including matters relating to HMOs and we will keep the regulation of HMOs under review. |
Rented Housing: Standards
Asked by: Jayne Kirkham (Labour (Co-op) - Truro and Falmouth) Tuesday 16th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help support landlords to ensure their properties comply with the Decent Homes Standard. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) It is imperative that homes are decent, safe and warm. The current Decent Homes Standard (DHS) plays a key role in setting a minimum quality standard that all social homes should meet. The primary source of funding to support landlords in meeting the DHS and to manage the repair and maintenance of existing social homes is rental income. This amounted to £24.5bn in 2023/24. From April 2026, social housing rents will be permitted to increase by CPI+1% annually as part of a new 10-year rent settlement announced at the Spending Review. In addition, we completed a focused consultation on how we will implement social rent convergence, ahead of a final decision to be announced at Autumn Budget. Social housing landlords are required to deliver the outcomes of the regulatory consumer standards, which includes the DHS, set by the independent Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). The RSH proactively seeks assurances that registered providers are meeting the outcomes of the consumer standards through routine inspections of large landlords (those with more than 1,000 homes). The government is extending the DHS to apply to the private rented sector for the first time through the Renters’ Rights Bill. Alongside its introduction to the private rented sector, the government recently consulted on a modernised DHS for private and social rent homes. The consultation closed on 12 September 2025. My Department is now considering the responses to that consultation, and we will set out our response in due course focused on ensuring that the new DHS is proportionate and deliverable. |
NHS: Employment Rights Bill
Asked by: Blake Stephenson (Conservative - Mid Bedfordshire) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 14 of the policy paper entitled 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, if he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on his plans for the NHS workforce. Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) The Employment Rights Bill is the first stage of Make Work Pay, which is a core part of the mission to grow the economy, raise living standards across the country and create opportunities for all. The approach is designed to help more people to stay in work, support workers’ productivity and improve living standards. Once implemented, the Bill will represent the biggest upgrade in employment rights for a generation. The measures contained in the Bill support the 10-Year Health Plan’s ambition to make the National Health Service the country’s best employer. |
Private Rented Housing
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of potential impact of the Renter's Rights Bill on the supply of private rented housing for people from each (a) income group and (b) geographic region. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government published an Impact Assessment for the Renters' Rights Bill on 22 November 2024. It received a 'Green' rating from the Regulatory Policy Committee, indicating that it is 'fit for purpose'.
While we acknowledge that it will take time for the sector to adjust to a significant change in regulation, we do not believe that our Renters’ Rights Bill will have a harmful impact on future rental supply.
Although landlords have been aware of successive governments’ plans to reform the private rented sector since 2019, the size of the sector as a whole has remained broadly stable since 2013-14.
The Bill will make sure good landlords have the confidence they need to continue to invest and operate in the sector. We will continue to work with good landlords and their representative associations throughout implementation. |
Private Rented Housing
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Renters’ Rights Bill on levels of private rented housing availability. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government published an Impact Assessment for the Renters' Rights Bill on 22 November 2024. It received a 'Green' rating from the Regulatory Policy Committee, indicating that it is 'fit for purpose'.
While we acknowledge that it will take time for the sector to adjust to a significant change in regulation, we do not believe that our Renters’ Rights Bill will have a harmful impact on future rental supply.
Although landlords have been aware of successive governments’ plans to reform the private rented sector since 2019, the size of the sector as a whole has remained broadly stable since 2013-14.
The Bill will make sure good landlords have the confidence they need to continue to invest and operate in the sector. We will continue to work with good landlords and their representative associations throughout implementation. |
Housing: Students
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the quality of student accommodation. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government is improving the quality of student accommodation by overhauling the regulation of the private rented sector through the Renters’ Rights Bill.
The Bill will provide tenants, including students, with greater security and stability and empower them to challenge bad practice. This change will help increase flexibility and prevent students in the private rented sector from being trapped paying rent for substandard properties – assured periodic tenancies will incentivise timely repairs and better standards.
For purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), only providers signed up to approved government codes will be exempt from the assured system. Quality in private PBSA is safeguarded through government-approved codes of practice, administered by ANUK/UNIPOL, which set rigorous standards for safety, maintenance, and student wellbeing. |
Rents: Arrears
Asked by: Lord Carter of Haslemere (Crossbench - Life peer) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask His Majesty's Government, in relation to paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Renters' Rights Bill, whether the protection for tenants from enforcement of rent arrears in respect of delayed universal credit payments apply only in respect of the first universal credit payment; and if so, whether this is consistent with the wording of the Bill which does not state it is limited. Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The Renters’ Rights Bill will introduce new protections for tenants who temporarily fall into rent arrears, supporting both parties by preventing tenancies which are otherwise viable from ending. We will protect tenants from eviction if their arrears are due to the timing of a relevant welfare payment. Tenants will not face mandatory eviction under Ground 8 if they breach the three months arrears threshold because they have not yet received a Universal Credit payment for housing costs which they have been assessed as entitled to. As Universal Credit is assessed every month, the protection period will apply in any period between the end of an assessment period and the relevant Universal Credit payment, which can usually be up to five days. |
Assured Tenancies
Asked by: Ian Roome (Liberal Democrat - North Devon) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of abolishing fixed-term assured tenancies in England on the housing market. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government published an Impact Assessment for the Renters' Rights Bill on 22 November 2024. It received a 'Green' rating from the Regulatory Policy Committee, indicating that it is 'fit for purpose'.
My Department has also engaged with a wide range of stakeholders during the development and passage of the Bill, and will continue to do so, as it is implemented. |
Private Rented Housing: Evictions
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Renter's Rights Bill on the number of court-adjudicated evictions. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) My Department is working closely with the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunal Service to ensure that the county courts are ready for the implementation of the Renters' Rights Bill. This includes an ongoing assessment of any additional burdens on the justice system arising from the Bill. |
Rented Housing: Pets
Asked by: Neil Hudson (Conservative - Epping Forest) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the Renters Rights Bill on the number of renters who will not be able to request a pet. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The Renters’ Rights Bill will give all private rented sector tenants the right to request a pet, which landlords will not be able to unreasonably refuse. |
Assured Tenancies: Rented Housing
Asked by: James Cleverly (Conservative - Braintree) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the abolition of fixed term tenancies on the security of tenure for rental properties for those who needed to be in an area for a fixed period. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The Renters’ Rights Bill will ensure that tenants enjoy greater security of tenure. The introduction of a new tenancy system based on periodic tenancies will ensure tenants have the flexibility to stay in a property for as long as they need to. Tenants will need to provide two months’ notice when leaving a tenancy. Landlords will only be able to evict a tenant in reasonable circumstances as set out in this legislation. |
Unfair Dismissal
Asked by: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 11th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential impact of the day-one right to not be unfairly dismissed on employment tribunal caseloads. Answered by Lord Leong - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The Employment Rights Bill Impact Assessments were published in October 2024 and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/employment-rights-bill-impact-assessments. This analysis includes an assessment of the potential impact of the day-one right to not be unfairly dismissed on employment tribunal caseloads. |
Employment Tribunals Service
Asked by: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 11th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish their funding plan to ensure that employment tribunals are adequately resources to manage the impact of the Employment Rights Bill. Answered by Lord Leong - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We recognise the Employment Tribunal system needs appropriate resourcing. The Lord Chancellor has a statutory duty to ensure sufficient funding for an efficient and effective Employment Tribunal. This is done via negotiation with the senior judiciary via the Concordat process. For the financial year 2025/26, the Government has committed funding to support 33,900 sitting days for Employment Tribunals, which is at maximum judicial capacity. Funding for future years will be subject to future Concordat processes. We are working to ensure that existing spend on Acas, tribunals, and state enforcement is used in an efficient way. |
Maternity Leave
Asked by: Angus MacDonald (Liberal Democrat - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) Thursday 11th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve the enforcement of legal protections for women returning to work after maternity leave. Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) Women returning from maternity, adoption, or six continuous weeks of shared parental or neonatal leave are entitled to enhanced redundancy protection. However, the government is strengthening legal protections, as we know this group continues to face a particular risk to their job security. We'll make it unlawful to dismiss pregnant women, mothers on maternity leave, and mothers returning to work for a six-month period - except in specific circumstances. This starts with the Employment Rights Bill, with protections in force from 2027. From April 2026, the Fair Work Agency will strengthen the enforcement of rights, with women expected to particularly benefit. |
Protective Clothing: Standards
Asked by: Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour (Co-op) - Bathgate and Linlithgow) Thursday 11th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to coordinate the new Fair Work Agency with the Health and Safety Executive to enforce better-fit PPE standards. Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) We are creating the Fair Work Agency to deliver a much-needed upgrade to enforcement of employment rights. Its core function will be to enforce specific employment legislation, set out in Part 1 of Schedule 7 of the Employment Rights Bill. We have taken steps to ensure the Fair Work Agency can work closely with the Health and Safety Executive, including sharing information that is relevant to the Health and Safety Executive’s statutory role. This is provided for by Schedule 9 of the Employment Rights Bill. |
Rented Housing: Tribunals
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater) Monday 8th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to ensure that there is sufficient capacity for tribunals to handle any increased caseload following the Renters' Rights Bill going into force. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is undertaking a significant programme of work in preparation for an increased caseload in the tribunal following commencement of the Renters’ Right Bill. This includes streamlining case handling processes and establishing a centralised operational hub; ensuring the availability of suitable estates capacity for hearings; delivering critical improvements to the existing technology systems to increase resilience and support increased workloads; and recruitment of additional administrative staff. Plans are also in train to recruit additional judicial office holders. The Government has concluded that there is a sound case for an alternative body or mechanism to make initial determinations on rent challenge cases in the future. This would relieve some demand from the tribunals. The Government intends to establish such a body or mechanism, subject to completing a full viability assessment. Further details of this will be confirmed in due course. |
Rented Housing: Tribunals
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater) Monday 8th September 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Renters' Rights Bill on levels of capacity in (a) the civil courts and (b) tribunals. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The Ministry of Justice (including its executive agency His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service) is working closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to assess the potential impact of the Renter’s Rights Bill on the justice system, to ensure that there is sufficient resource in the civil courts and tribunals to respond to demand. |
Employment: Discrimination and Harassment
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley) Friday 5th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with Acas under the new Resolve and Manage priorities in its 2025–30 strategy to help support victims of harassment and discrimination following the planned introduction of the ban on non-disclosure agreements. Answered by Justin Madders Clause 24 of the Government’s Employment Rights Bill will void any agreement, such as a contract of employment or settlement agreement, between a worker and their employer that prevents a worker from speaking out about relevant harassment or discrimination. These agreements are often referred to as non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
The Government will work with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) on updates to its guidance on NDAs to ensure that workers and employers understand the changes to the law when they come into force. |
Employment: Discrimination and Harassment
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley) Friday 5th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking with Acas under the Prevent strand of its 2025–30 strategy to ensure that employers do not issue non-disclosure agreements in cases of (a) harassment and (b) discrimination. Answered by Justin Madders Clause 24 of the Government’s Employment Rights Bill will void any agreement, such as a contract of employment or settlement agreement, between a worker and their employer that prevents a worker from speaking out about relevant harassment or discrimination. These agreements are often referred to as non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
The Government will work with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) on updates to its guidance on NDAs to ensure that workers and employers understand the changes to the law when they come into force. |
Conditions of Employment
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion) Friday 5th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is is taking to increase awareness among workers of their proposed new rights under Clause 22A of the Employment Rights Bill. Answered by Justin Madders The Government will work with organisations such as the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on updates to their guidance on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), also known as confidentiality clauses, to ensure that workers and employers understand the changes to the law in relation to NDAs that are introduced through the Employment Rights Bill. The Government will also liaise with employer groups, the legal industry and unions about updates to their guidance and information on NDAs. |
Conditions of Employment
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion) Friday 5th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether guidance will be issued for (a) employees and (b) legal advisers on interpreting confidentiality clauses under the new regime under Clause 22A of the Employment Rights Bill. Answered by Justin Madders The Government will work with organisations such as the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on updates to their guidance on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), also known as confidentiality clauses, to ensure that workers and employers understand the changes to the law in relation to NDAs that are introduced through the Employment Rights Bill. The Government will also liaise with employer groups, the legal industry and unions about updates to their guidance and information on NDAs. |
Parliamentary Research |
---|
Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Lords stages and amendments - CBP-10334
Sep. 12 2025 Found: Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Lords stages and amendments |
Petitions |
---|
No discrimination against private landlords all property should comply with RRB Petition Rejected - 6 SignaturesThe proposed Renters Rights Bill should be enforced on all rented properties including Council owned & Housing Association properties. Found: The proposed Renters Rights Bill should be enforced on all rented properties including Council owned |
Bill Documents |
---|
Sep. 16 2025
HL Bill 133 Commons Agreement and Amendments, Disagreements, Amendments in Lieu and Amendment to the Words so Restored to the Bill Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Bill Found: Employment Rights Bill COMMONS AGREEMENT AND AMENDMENTS, DISAGREEMENTS, AMENDMENTS IN LIEU AND AMENDMENT |
Sep. 15 2025
Committee to draw up Reasons for disagreeing to Lords Amendments - 15 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Minutes of Reasons Committee Found: MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS Employment Rights Bill Committee to draw up Reasons for disagreeing to |
Sep. 15 2025
Grouping of Lords Amendments by Secretary Peter Kyle and selection of motions by Mr Speaker - 15 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Selection of amendments: Commons Found: MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2025 EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL Consideration of Lords Amendments Grouping |
Sep. 15 2025
Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments as at 15 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Lords Amendments: Monday 15 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill (Motions relating to Lords Amendments |
Sep. 12 2025
Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Lords stages and amendments Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Briefing papers Found: Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Lords stages and amendments |
Sep. 12 2025
Notices of CCLA Amendments as at 12 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Lords Amendments: Friday 12 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill (Motions relating to Lords Amendments |
Sep. 11 2025
HL Bill 131(b) Motion for Consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Renters' Rights Bill MOTION TO BE MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASONS AND AMENDMENTS [The page |
Sep. 10 2025
Bill 301 EN 2024-26 (Lords Amendments) Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Explanatory Notes Found: Bill 301 - EN 59/1 EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL EXP LANATORY NOTES ON LORDS AMENDMENTS 1. |
Sep. 10 2025
Notices of CCLA Amendments as at 10 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Lords Amendments: Wednesday 10 September 2025 Employment Rights Bill (Motions relating to Lords Amendments |
Sep. 10 2025
HL Bill 131(a) Motion for Consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Renters' Rights Bill MOTION TO BE MOVED ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS REASONS AND AMENDMENTS [The page |
Sep. 09 2025
HL Bill 131 Commons Disagreement, Reasons and Amendments in Lieu Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Bill Found: Renters’ Rights Bill COMMONS DISAGREEMENT, REASONS AND AMENDMENTS IN LIEU [The page and line references |
Sep. 08 2025
Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments as at 8 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Lords Amendments: Monday 8 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill (Motions relating to Lords Amendments |
Sep. 08 2025
Committee to draw up Reasons for disagreeing to Lords Amendments - 8 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Minutes of Reasons Committee Found: MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS Renters’ Rights Bill Committee to draw up Reasons for disagreeing to Lords |
Sep. 08 2025
Grouping of Lords Amendments by Minister Matthew Pennycook and selection of motions by Mr Speaker - large print - 8 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Selection of amendments: Commons Found: MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2025 RENTERS’ RIGHTS BILL Consideration of Lords Amendments Grouping of Lords |
Sep. 08 2025
Grouping of Lords Amendments by Minister Matthew Pennycook and selection of motions by Mr Speaker - 8 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Selection of amendments: Commons Found: MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2025 RENTERS’ RIGHTS BILL Consideration of Lords Amendments Grouping of Lords |
Sep. 05 2025
Legislative Consent Motion agreed by the Scottish Parliament - September 2025 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Legislative Consent Motions-devolved legislatures Found: Commons LONDON SW1A 0AA 4 September 2025 Dear Tom Motion on Legislative Consent: Employment Rights Bill |
Sep. 05 2025
Notices of CCLA Amendments as at 5 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Lords Amendments: Friday 5 September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill (Motions relating to Lords Amendments |
Sep. 04 2025
Bill 301 2024-25 (Lords Amendments) Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Bill Found: Employment Rights Bill LORDS AMENDMENTS [The page and line references are to HL Bill 81, the Bill as |
Sep. 04 2025
Legislative Consent Motion agreed by Senedd Cymru - September 2025 Renters' Rights Bill 2024-26 Legislative Consent Motions-devolved legislatures Found: 22 May 2025 Dear Simon and Tom, The Renters’ Rights Bill – Legislative Consent I am writing |
Department Publications - Transparency | |
---|---|
Tuesday 30th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: DBT: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: View online (webpage) Found: Trade Union Congress | To discuss the Employment Rights Bill |
Tuesday 30th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: DBT: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: (webpage) Found: operations in the UK Jonathan Reynolds 07/04/2025 Trade Union Congress To discuss the Employment Rights Bill |
|
Thursday 25th September 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: MHCLG: ministerial travel and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: View online (webpage) Found: td> | |
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department of Health and Social Care Source Page: DHSC: ministerial travel and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: View online (webpage) Found: | To discuss the Employment Rights Bill and the Fair |
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department of Health and Social Care Source Page: DHSC: ministerial travel and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: (webpage) Found: To discuss the Employment Rights Bill and the Fair Pay Agreement. |
|
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: DBT: senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: View online (webpage) Found: Traders Energy UK) | To discuss the Employment Rights Bill |
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: DBT: senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings, April to June 2025 Document: (webpage) Found: Retail Consortium, Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders, Energy UK) To discuss the Employment Rights Bill |
|
Monday 15th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Department for Business and Trade annual report and accounts for 2024 to 2025 Document: (PDF) Found: f Within the first 100 days of the new government, we introduced the Employment Rights Bill, covering |
|
Monday 15th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Department for Business and Trade annual report and accounts for 2024 to 2025 Document: (PDF) Found: f W ithin the first 100 days of the new government, we introduced the Employment Rights Bill, covering |
|
Monday 15th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Department for Business and Trade annual report and accounts for 2024 to 2025 Document: (PDF) Found: • Within the first 100 days of the new government, we introduced the Employment Rights Bill, covering |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
---|
Tuesday 30th September 2025
Department of Health and Social Care Source Page: £500m for first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care workers Document: £500m for first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care workers (webpage) Found: Pay Agreement will be backed by law currently progressing in Parliament through the Employment Rights Bill |
Wednesday 24th September 2025
Department for Work and Pensions Source Page: Football clubs partner with Government to help young people into work Document: Football clubs partner with Government to help young people into work (webpage) Found: Jobcentres, boosting the National Living Wage, and creating more secure jobs through the Employment Rights Bill |
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Attorney General Source Page: Attorney General speech - “The Rule of Law: Powering Growth” Document: Attorney General speech - “The Rule of Law: Powering Growth” (webpage) Found: The extension of the rule of law into the realm of precarious employment by the Employment Rights Bill |
Monday 15th September 2025
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation comes one step closer Document: Biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation comes one step closer (webpage) Found: Employment Rights Bill returns to the Commons, marking another step towards transformation of workers |
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Department for Education Source Page: Bridget Phillipson speech to TUC conference, 2025 Document: Bridget Phillipson speech to TUC conference, 2025 (webpage) Found: government must hold up to ours, and cement good, secure jobs in legislation, through the Employment Rights Bill |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
---|
Thursday 25th September 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Pride in Place Strategy Document: (PDF) Found: amenities to support thriving, new communities� 127� The reforms introduced through the Renters’ Rights Bill |
Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation |
---|
Sep. 17 2025
HM Revenue & Customs Source Page: Check how to reduce your risk of using an umbrella company who operates a tax avoidance scheme Document: Check how to reduce your risk of using an umbrella company who operates a tax avoidance scheme (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: legal definition of an employment business, so that they’ll be regulated through the Employment Rights Bill |
Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications |
---|
Sep. 09 2025
Office for Equality and Opportunity Source Page: Women's Business Council refreshed to help break down barriers for opportunity for women at work Document: Women's Business Council refreshed to help break down barriers for opportunity for women at work (webpage) News and Communications Found: The Employment Rights Bill will improve parity for women in the workplace, including through the introduction |
Sep. 05 2025
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Source Page: Letter from the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards & exchange of letters between the Prime Minister and Angela Rayner MP Document: (PDF) News and Communications Found: Through my Employment Rights Bill people across the country will receive the biggest uplift in workers |
Scottish Committee Publications |
---|
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Report - This report sets out the Committee's consideration of all instruments during 24 February to 12 May 2025. Instruments considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee during the fourth quarter of the Parliamentary Year 2024-25 Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee Found: legislation within devolved competence in four LCMs— • The Tobacco and Vapes Bill • Employment Rights Bill |
Friday 30th May 2025
Report - Annual Report of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee 2024-25. Annual Report of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee for 2024-25 Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee Found: _____________5 Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2024-2025____________________________________________5 Human Rights Bill |
Friday 30th May 2025
Report - Report by the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee outlining its work during the Parliamentary year from 13 May 2024 to 12 May 2025. Annual Report of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 2024-25 Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Found: Session 6) 4Legislative Consent Memorandum Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the Renters’ Rights Bill |
Tuesday 27th May 2025
Report - Annual Report 2024-25 for the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. Annual report of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 2024-25 Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee Found: A breakdown is provided below: LCMs • Renters Rights Bill • Product Regulation and Metrology Bill • Tobacco |
Wednesday 21st May 2025
Report - A report on the work for the Economy and Fair Work Committee for the period 13 May 2024 to 12 May 2025. Annual report of the Economy and Fair Work Committee 2024-25 Economy and Fair Work Committee Found: considered three Legislative Consent Memorandums (LCMs)— • Data (Use and Access) Bill • Employment Rights Bill |
Friday 16th May 2025
Report - A report on the Economy and Fair Work Committee's scrutiny of the Scottish Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Employment Rights Bill. Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Employment Rights Bill Economy and Fair Work Committee Found: Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Employment Rights Bill A report on the Economy and |
Scottish Cross Party Group Publications |
---|
Minute of the Meeting of 5 March 2025
(PDF) Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Learning Disability Published: 5th Mar 2025 Found: . • Ask Minister to come to CPG and talk about the groups concerns on LDAN, Human Rights Bill and |
Scottish Written Answers |
---|
S6W-40685
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton) Tuesday 30th September 2025 Question To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any impact on women working in the Scottish public sector whose employers will not be covered by the UK Government’s commitment to introduce mandatory gender pay gap action plans, in light of reported concerns that they may be left behind if equivalent measures are not introduced. Answered by Stewart, Kaukab - Minister for Equalities While inter-governmental discussions are ongoing, and while we are developing PSED-related improvement proposals, we have not yet made an assessment of the likely impact on women of the UK Government’s commitment but we are making stringent efforts to resolve this matter and to consider how action planning could be used in a Scottish context. As Minister for Equalities, I am still awaiting a confirmed meeting date with UK Government Ministers, following an offer via correspondence in May 2025, to discuss the Scottish Government’s concerns around provisions in the UK Government’s Employment Rights Bill and to seek a resolution in line with current timelines for the Bill’s passage. These concerns relate to powers to mandate for equality action plans and the naming of outsourcing providers for public bodies in Scotland. Currently these provisions will only come into force for public bodies in England, and so Scottish Ministers continue to seek assurances around receiving the equivalent powers to regulate as those proposed for UK Government Ministers. Using the powers that we do have and as part of the Scottish Government’s phased approach to improving the effectiveness of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in Scotland, we continue to review the operation of the Scottish Specific Duties to support Scottish listed authorities to enable better performance of the general duty. |
S6W-38736
Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland) Tuesday 1st July 2025 Question To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support any social care workers on low pay, in light of reported evidence stating that there is a link between the level of pay for people working in social care and child poverty. Answered by Arthur, Tom - Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing The Scottish Government has a long-standing commitment to support social care workers rates of pay. For the 2025-26 financial year, the Scottish Government are investing £125 million to enable adult social care workers, delivering direct care in the third and private sectors, to be paid at least the Real Living Wage. This takes the estimated total investment to deliver this policy up to £950 million this financial year. This policy is to enable the Real Living Wage to be paid to these workers as a minimum, and employers and commissioners have the locus to set rates in excess of this where local circumstances allow. In addition, the Scottish Government is committed to establish voluntary sectoral bargaining arrangements for the commissioned adult social care sector in Scotland and we have been working with stakeholder partners, through the Fair Work in Social Care Group, to progress this. We have also been engaging with the UK Government on their Employment Rights Bill, which we hope will extend the scope for the option of a regulatory Social Care Negotiating Body, and associated Fair Pay Agreements, to Scotland. Once developed and introduced, sectoral bargaining arrangements will encourage improvements in pay, and terms and conditions for the social care workforce. We know that there are a number of factors which can compound the relationship between work and poverty, including in sectors such as social care. That is why we are taking action to tackle child poverty and make a real difference to families. On average, households with children in the poorest 10% of households are estimated to be £2,600 a year better off in 2025-26 as a result of Scottish Government policies like the Scottish Child Payment. This value is projected to grow to an average of £3,700 a year by 2029-30. We are also taking decisive action to end the impact of the two-child limit in Scotland. Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary legislation, the new Two Child Limit Payment will open for applications on 2 March 2026, with payments beginning as soon as possible thereafter. Worth up to more than £3,500 a year for each eligible child, these payments will make a significant difference to larger families who are currently denied support, and Scottish Government modelling published in March estimates this will result in 20,000 fewer children living in relative poverty in 2026-27. While the Joseph Rowntree Foundation predict child poverty will rise in other parts of the UK by 2029, they highlight that policies such as our Scottish Child Payment, and our commitment to mitigate the two-child limit, are behind Scotland bucking the trend. |
S6W-37473
Asked by: Villalba, Mercedes (Scottish Labour - North East Scotland) Wednesday 21st May 2025 Question To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-35303 by Gillian Martin on 12 March 2025, what consideration it has given to the (a) application and (b) enforcement of the national minimum wage on (i) Inch Cape and (ii) other offshore wind farms leased by Crown Estate Scotland with the UK Government. Answered by Martin, Gillian - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy As stated in the answer to S6W-35303, employment legislation is reserved to the UK Parliament and there have been no discussions to date specifically on enforcement of the national minimum wage for Inch Cape or other offshore wind farms. As long as employment legislation remains reserved, the Scottish Government will continue to use our Fair Work policy to drive up labour market standards for workers across the Scottish labour market, including in the offshore wind sector. We welcome the UK Government’s Employment Rights Bill and continue to work closely with them to ensure its positive application, whilst being clear that the best way to protect Scotland’s workers is to devolve employment law. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers |
S6W-37474
Asked by: Villalba, Mercedes (Scottish Labour - North East Scotland) Wednesday 21st May 2025 Question To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-35303 by Gillian Martin on 12 March 2025, what assessment it has made of the current provisions in the UK Government’s Employment Rights Bill and the employment rights of (a) offshore energy workers and (b) seafarers in Scotland. Answered by Martin, Gillian - Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy The Scottish Government has no duty to conduct an assessment of the impact of the UK Government’s Employment Rights Bill with regard to offshore energy workers or seafarers or any other sector, but we welcome the Bill and continue to work with the UK Government to ensure it has a positive impact across Scotland. The Scottish Government supports the strengthening of fair work and workers’ rights and will continue to use our Fair Work policy to drive up labour market standards for workers across the Scottish labour market, whilst advocating for devolution of employment law to best protect Scotland’s workers. |
Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe) |
---|
Men's mental health in Scotland
Monday 22nd September 2025 This briefing summarises emerging trends in mental health challenges affecting men in Scotland. Drawing on current research findings, it highlights gender-specific patterns in areas such as suicide, loneliness and social isolation, the mental health impacts of fatherhood, and drug, alcohol, and gambling-related harm. This briefing also outlines existing Scottish policy approaches and View source webpage Found: Commitment to the UK’s first Men’s Health Strategy _________________________31 Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill |
Intergovernmental activity update Q2 2025
Thursday 31st July 2025 This update gives an overview of intergovernmental activity of relevance to the Scottish Parliament between the Scottish Government and the UK Government, the Welsh Government, and the Northern Ireland Executive during quarter two (April to June) of 2025. View source webpage Found: 2025 Bill title Date memorandum lodged Consent recommendation by Scottish Government Employment Rights Bill |
The intergovernmental relations 'reset': one year on
Thursday 31st July 2025 One year on from the 2024 UK General Election, this briefing examines progress and developments relevant to the UK Government's commitment to 'reset' its relationship with the devolved Governments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The briefing focuses particularly on intergovernmental relations between the UK and Scottish Governments. View source webpage Found: Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill Consent recommended 31 October 2024 Consent granted Renters' Rights Bill |
Neurodevelopmental Pathways and Waiting Times in Scotland
Tuesday 24th June 2025 The number of children and adults seeking assessments for conditions such as autism and ADHD has grown dramatically over the last decade. This has led to increased pressure on Scotland's neurodevelopmental services. This briefing examines the current provision for neurodevelopmental assessment in Scotland, with a focus on diagnostic pathways and waiting times across NHS View source webpage Found: with the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (now the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill) and Human Rights Bill |
Scottish Parliamentary Debates |
---|
Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
229 speeches (149,635 words) Tuesday 30th September 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) 2 of the bill on children, public authorities or future legislation such as the Scottish human rights bill - Link to Speech 2: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) the bill on, for example, children, the public sector, or future legislation such as the human rights bill - Link to Speech 3: White, Tess (Con - North East Scotland) Why not wait until the Scottish human rights bill and do it all properly? - Link to Speech 4: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) have any further views on the potential impact of part 2 on future legislation, such as the human rights bill - Link to Speech |
Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
423 speeches (550,905 words) Wednesday 24th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) system.Amendment 197 would provide a 12-month protection from eviction—the same protection that the Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) Those are two very different situations.The Liberal Democrats also supported the Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Clark, Katy (Lab - West Scotland) bring the law in Scotland into line with the provisions outlined in the UK Government’s Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
283 speeches (180,025 words) Wednesday 24th September 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: None We hoped that the human rights bill would clarify a lot of that, but that has obviously been delayed. - Link to Speech 2: None It is about the core principles and linking things to the human rights bill—that is probably the clearest - Link to Speech |
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review
71 speeches (114,869 words) Thursday 18th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: McKee, Ivan (SNP - Glasgow Provan) Scottish Government recently published a discussion paper that sets out proposals relating to a human rights bill - Link to Speech |
Portfolio Question Time
100 speeches (51,650 words) Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Arthur, Tom (SNP - Renfrewshire South) I have engaged constructively with the UK Government on its Employment Rights Bill process. - Link to Speech |
Pre-budget Scrutiny 2026-27
134 speeches (140,217 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: None revision of the public sector equality duty, as well as, of course, the resiling from the human rights bill - Link to Speech 2: None However, that bill was shelved at the same time as the human rights bill, and, despite the promises that - Link to Speech 3: None have not been taken forward.I will not repeat what Angela O’Hagain said about the proposed human rights bill - Link to Speech 4: White, Tess (Con - North East Scotland) Scottish National Party ministers, including yourself, have recently shelved the human rights bill that - Link to Speech 5: None have not been taken forward.I will not repeat what Angela O’Hagan said about the proposed human rights bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill
2 speeches (688 words) Thursday 4th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) consideration of legislative consent motion S6M-18704, in the name of Tom Arthur, on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Decision Time
6 speeches (5,901 words) Thursday 4th September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) The final question is, that motion S6M-18704, in the name of Tom Arthur, on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) motion S6M-18704, in the name of Tom Arthur, on the legislative consent motion on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) Parliament agrees that the amendments tabled on 7 July 2025 to clauses 44 to 46 and 49 of the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Business Motions
3 speeches (2,398 words) Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) Water Industry Commission for Scotlandinsertfollowed by Motion on Legislative Consent: Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Parliamentary Bureau Motions
2 speeches (856 words) Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) committee in consideration of the second supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Decision Time
19 speeches (24,429 words) Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) committee in consideration of the second supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill
3 speeches (4,848 words) Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) take oral evidence on a further supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Arthur, Tom (SNP - Renfrewshire South) should be read in conjunction with the Scottish Government’s previous memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill
8 speeches (20,391 words) Thursday 26th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) , Richard Lochhead; we need the summer recess—on a legislative consent motion on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) debate the motion to provide legislative consent to provisions in the UK Government’s Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) quality as we go on.The legislative consent motion that is before us relates to the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 4: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) As Murdo Fraser rightly pointed out, the purpose of the Employment Rights Bill is to put into legislation - Link to Speech |
Decision Time
23 speeches (26,973 words) Thursday 26th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) motion S6M-18075, in the name of Richard Lochhead, on a legislative consent motion on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) motion S6M-18075, in the name of Richard Lochhead, on a legislative consent motion on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
National Advisory Council on Women and Girls Equality Recommendations
61 speeches (86,544 words) Thursday 19th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) and enabling women to have control over their own bodies.The UK Labour Government’s Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Business Motion
1 speech (1,274 words) Wednesday 18th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) by Stage 3 Debate: Education (Scotland) Billfollowed by Legislative Consent Motion: Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Child Poverty
29 speeches (32,788 words) Tuesday 17th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) force, and early actions, including the fair repayment rate in universal credit and the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Care Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
269 speeches (234,637 words) Tuesday 10th June 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) see my friend Angela Rayner, as part of a UK Labour Government, driving forward the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) The Scottish Government is constructively collaborating with the UK Government on its Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) me say this in the chamber, but I am delighted with the UK Government’s work on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
166 speeches (147,502 words) Tuesday 27th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) from eviction in the same way as will shortly be provided to tenants in England under the Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) I have looked very carefully—again, only yesterday—at what is proposed in the UK Renters’ Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament Legislation)
52 speeches (29,271 words) Tuesday 27th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) item is further oral evidence on a supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) way, during the past few months is the issue that I am here to talk about today—the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: None group in its totality to ask for feedback on the group’s response to what was in the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 4: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) more, and we have the mechanisms in place to ensure that we hear from the sector.The UK Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech |
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
24 speeches (33,015 words) Tuesday 20th May 2025 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) money, as well as biodiversity, precious green space and the wellbeing of our communities.The human rights bill - Link to Speech |
Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament Legislation)
72 speeches (55,124 words) Tuesday 20th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) an evidence-taking session on a supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 2: None committee is considering it as we progress with both the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill and the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 3: None progress of the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill, it may already have introduced that before the Employment Rights Bill - Link to Speech 4: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) The Employment Rights Bill is speeding through the UK Parliament. - Link to Speech |
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
61 speeches (32,528 words) Tuesday 20th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) If the bill were enacted, how might it align with any future human rights bill in Scotland? - Link to Speech 2: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) a hypothetical one, although we do not have a crystal ball, let us assume that a Scottish human rights bill - Link to Speech 3: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) We will also continue our scrutiny of the supplementary LCM for the Employment Rights Bill by taking - Link to Speech |
Civil Legal Aid Inquiry
81 speeches (92,306 words) Tuesday 20th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: None law and the human rights framework that Scotland was trying to create in relation to the human rights bill - Link to Speech |
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
242 speeches (151,491 words) Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Committee Mentions: 1: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) That charter was to have been underpinned by a Scottish human rights bill that has now been delayed, - Link to Speech 2: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) I am concerned that the Scottish human rights bill that was meant to underpin the charter of rights is - Link to Speech 3: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) might not be enforceable in the way that it was seen that it would be down the line with the human rights bill - Link to Speech 4: None This is a health rights bill; it is not a national strategy. - Link to Speech |
Scottish Calendar |
---|
Thursday 4th September 2025 Motion on Legislative Consent: Employment Rights Bill - UK Legislation - Main Chamber Tom Arthur (S6M-18704) That the Parliament agrees that the amendments tabled on 7 July 2025 to clauses 44 to 46 and 49 of the Employment Rights Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 10 October 2024, in relation to the establishment of the Social Care Negotiating Body for Scotland, so far as these amendments further alter the executive competence of the Scottish Ministers, should be considered by the UK Parliament. Further details available for S6M-18704 Watch on Scottish Parliament TV View calendar - Add to calendar |
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Business Motions - Main Chamber Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18695) That the Parliament agrees to the following revision to the programme of business for Thursday 4 September 2025—after followed by Public Audit Committee Debate: The 2022/23 and 2023/24 Audits of the Water Industry Commission for Scotlandinsertfollowed by Motion on Legislative Consent: Employment Rights Bill - UK Legislation Further details available for S6M-18695 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18696) That the Parliament agrees—(a) the following programme of business—Tuesday 9 September 20252.00 pm Time for Reflectionfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motionsfollowed by Topical Questions (if selected)followed by Ministerial Statement: Actions to Support Improved Relationships and Behaviour in Schoolsfollowed by Scottish Government Debate: Twenty Years of Scotland's Railway Providing a Strong Platform for the Futurefollowed by Committee Announcementsfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions5.00 pm Decision Timefollowed by Members’ BusinessWednesday 10 September 20252.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands; Health and Social Carefollowed by Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Businessfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motionsfollowed by Approval of SSIs (if required)5.10 pm Decision Timefollowed by Members’ Business Thursday 11 September 202511.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions11.40 am General Questions12.00 pm First Minister's Questionsfollowed by Members’ Business2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Social Justice and Housingfollowed by Ministerial Statement: GFG Business Operations in Scotlandfollowed by Scottish Government Debate: Supporting Scottish Exports in Response to Global Uncertaintyfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions5.00 pm Decision TimeTuesday 16 September 20252.00 pm Time for Reflectionfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motionsfollowed by Topical Questions (if selected)followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Billfollowed by Committee Announcementsfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions10.00 pm Decision Timefollowed by Members’ BusinessWednesday 17 September 20252.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, and Parliamentary Business; Justice and Home Affairs followed by Stage 3 Debate: Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Billfollowed by Stage 1 Debate: Leases (Automatic Continuation etc.) (Scotland) Billfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motionsfollowed by Approval of SSIs (if required)5.00 pm Decision Timefollowed by Members’ Business Thursday 18 September 202511.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions11.40 am General Questions12.00 pm First Minister's Questionsfollowed by Members’ Business2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.30 pm Portfolio Questions: Education and Skillsfollowed by SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee Debate: SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Reviewfollowed by Business Motionsfollowed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions5.00 pm Decision Time (b) that, for the purposes of Portfolio Questions in the week beginning 8 September 2025, in rule 13.7.3, after the word “except” the words “to the extent to which the Presiding Officer considers that the questions are on the same or similar subject matter or” are inserted. Further details available for S6M-18696 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18697) That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1 be completed by 16 January 2026. Further details available for S6M-18697 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18698) That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment to UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1 be completed by 28 November 2025. Further details available for S6M-18698 Watch on Scottish Parliament TV View calendar |
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Parliamentary Bureau Motions - Main Chamber Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18699) That the Parliament agrees that the Scottish Parliament (Constituencies and Regions) Order 2025 [draft] be approved. Further details available for S6M-18699 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18700) That the Parliament agrees that the Scottish Parliament (Disqualification) Order 2025 [draft] be approved. Further details available for S6M-18700 Jamie Hepburn on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau (S6M-18701) That the Parliament agrees that the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee be designated as the lead committee in consideration of the second supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill. Further details available for S6M-18701 Watch on Scottish Parliament TV View calendar - Add to calendar |
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 10 a.m. 23rd Meeting, 2025 (Session 6) The committee will meet at 10:00am at T1.40-CR5 The Smith Room. 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 5, 6, 7 and 8 in private. 2. Instruments subject to affirmative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Social Security (Cross-border Provision, Case Transfer and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft)Climate Change (Local Development Plan) (Repeals) (Scotland) Order 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft)Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft) 3. Instruments subject to negative procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/187)Teachers’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/197)Council Tax Reduction (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 4) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/212)Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes (Amendment) Order 2025 (SI 2025/678) 4. Instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure: The Committee will consider the following— Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/179 (C.19)) 5. Housing (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the delegated powers provisions in this Bill after Stage 2. 6. Crime and Policing Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the Legislative Consent Memorandum, the supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum, the second supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum, and powers to make subordinate legislation within devolved competence in the Bill. 7. Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider the second supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum and powers to make subordinate legislation within devolved competence in the Bill. 8. Work of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee 2024-25: The Committee will consider a draft report outlining the work of the Committee during the parliamentary year 2024-25. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Greg Black on 86266 or at [email protected] View calendar - Add to calendar |
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 8:45 a.m. 21st Meeting, 2025 (Session 6) The committee will meet at 8:45am at TG.60-CR3 The Fleming Room. 1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. 2. Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will take evidence on supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum LCM-S6-53b from— Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, Scottish Government Anne Cairns, Solicitor, Scottish Government Danny Duffy, Fair Work, Social Care, Scottish Government David Holmes, Fair Work, Economy, Scottish Government Rachael Thomas, Fair Work, Social Care, Scottish Government 3. Good Food Nation: The Committee will take evidence from— Mhairi Brown, Head of Food Futures, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland Anna Chworow, Deputy Director, Nourish Scotland Claire Hislop, Organisational Lead for Food and Physical Activity, Public Health Scotland Professor Lindsay Jaacks, Deputy Director and Personal Chair of Global Health and Nutrition, University of Edinburgh and then from— Mairi Gougeon, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Scottish Government James Hamilton, Lawyer, Scottish Government Tracy McCollin, Head of Good Food Nation Team, Scottish Government Jo Mitchell, Procurement Policy Manager, Scottish Government James Wilson, Population Health Strategy and Improvement, Scottish Government 4. Employment Rights Bill (UK Parliament legislation): The Committee will consider a draft report on supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum LCM-S6-53b. 5. Good Food Nation: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 3. For further information, contact the Clerk to the Committee, Alex Bruce on 85229 or at [email protected] View calendar - Add to calendar |
Welsh Committee Publications |
---|
PDF - Supplementary LCM Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: 1 SUPPLEMENTARY LEGISLATIVE CONSENT MEMORANDUM (MEMORANDUM NO 4) EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL 1. |
PDF - agreed Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: consider and report on the Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (No.4) on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - report Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Found: example, our reports on: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - 11 July 2025 Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: Constitution Committee to consider and report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - report Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: Government’s Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - WG Resonse to LJC on Memorandum Emp Rights (Memo 3) e Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: Government’s Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - responded Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: Government’s Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - report Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: Government’s Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 4) on the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - report Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: and Social Care Committee Report on Legislative Consent Memorandum No. 3 for the Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - WG response to HSC report on Employment Rights Bill Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: WG response to HSC report on Employment Rights Bill |
PDF - responded Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Employment Rights Bill Found: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Empoyment Rights Bill - Response to the |
PDF - report Inquiry: The role of local authorities in supporting hospital discharges Found: We note that the UK Employment Rights Bill includes provisions to allow for the establishment of a Social |
Welsh Written Answers |
---|
WQ97224
Asked by: Adam Price (Plaid Cymru - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Thursday 4th September 2025 Question When will the Welsh Government respond in writing to the Local Government and Housing Committee’s reports on the LCM and SLCM for the Renters’ Rights Bill? Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government The Local Government and Housing Committee did not request responses to the two reports. The content of both reports was however considered as part of the overall legislative consent process. The recommendation relating to pets has been addressed in our proposed approach to people renting with pets outlined in the Summary of Responses to the White Paper on securing a path towards Adequate Housing, including Fair Rents and Affordability. |
WQ96980
Asked by: Siân Gwenllian (Plaid Cymru - Arfon) Wednesday 23rd July 2025 Question What is the Cabinet Secretary's latest assessment of the possible impact of the UK Government's Renters' Rights Bill on governance and individual rights in Wales? Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government The few provisions in the Bill which directly affect Wales remain those to which the Senedd agreed to give legislative consent on 20 May 2025. The anti-discrimination provisions will greatly enhance the rights of all tenants in receipt of benefits and those with children. |
Welsh Senedd Speeches |
---|
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
No Department |
Welsh Calendar |
---|
Monday 15th September 2025 1 p.m. Meeting of Remote, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, 15/09/2025 13.00 - 16.00 Public meeting (13.00) 1. Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest (13.00 – 13.05) 2. Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 2.1 SL(6)634 - The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 2.2 SL(6)635 - The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Regulations 2025 2.3 SL(6)638 - The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 2.4 SL(6)643 - The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 2.5 SL(6)644 - The Education (Student Support) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (13.05 – 13.10) 3. Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered 3.1 SL(6)615 - The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (13.10 – 13.15) 4. Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement 4.1 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: Meetings of inter-ministerial groups 4.2 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Budget Cover Transfer to support digital inclusion activity in Wales (13.15 – 13.35) 5. Papers to note 5.1 Correspondence from the Chairs' Forum to Committees: Reviewing Committee Effectiveness in the Sixth Senedd 5.2 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning to the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee: The Data (Use and Access) Bill 5.3 Correspondence in relation to the UK Government response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 and Public Consultation 5.4 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Employment Rights Bill 5.5 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Crime and Policing Bill 5.6 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 2) on the Bus Services (No. 2) Bill 5.7 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Victims and Courts Bill 5.8 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill 5.9 Correspondence from the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Mental Health Bill 5.10 Correspondence from the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 4) on the Mental Health Bill 5.11 Correspondence from the Welsh Government: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 5.12 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Welsh Government's Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 5.13 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning to the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee: The Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 5.14 Correspondence in relation to the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill 5.15 Written Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Welsh Government Response to the Independent Water Commission Report 5.16 Correspondence from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) Authority Interim Responses on the expansion of the UK ETS 5.17 Correspondence with the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales: Invitation to provide oral evidence 5.18 Correspondence from the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership: Regulations in relation to Part 3 of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 5.19 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: HM Prison Parc 5.20 Written Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Preparing for the devolution of justice 5.21 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: The Bus Services (Wales) Bill 5.22 Correspondence with the Welsh Government: Legislative Consent Memoranda in the final two terms of the sixth Senedd 5.23 President of the Welsh Tribunals: Annual Report 2024/2025 5.24 Written Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Public consultation on Making Changes to the Welsh Tax Acts 5.25 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: The Trade Act 2021 5.26 House of Lords International Agreements Committee: Report on its review of treaty scrutiny (13.35) 6. Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting Private meeting (13.35 – 13.45) 7. Discussion on correspondence considered in public session (13.45 – 14.00) 8. Planning (Wales) Bill and Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Bill: Committee confirmation of approach to scrutiny (14.00 – 14.10) 9. Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Approach to scrutiny (14.10 – 14.35) 10. Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill: Draft report (14.35 – 14.45) 11. Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Draft report (14.45 – 14.55) 12. Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 2) on the Animal Welfare (Import Of Dogs, Cats And Ferrets) Bill (14.55 – 15.10) 13. Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Pension Schemes Bill (15.10 – 15.20) 14. Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 5) on the Mental Health Bill: Draft report (15.20 – 15.30) 15. Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill: Draft report (15.30 – 15.40) 16. Legislative Consent Memoranda on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Draft report (15.40 – 15.55) 17. Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 3) on the Bus Services (No. 2) Bill: Draft report (15.55 – 16.00) 18. Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 4) on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill View calendar - Add to calendar |