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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 15 Oct 2026
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Mentions:
1: Hannah Spencer (Green - Gorton and Denton) What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the withdrawal of UK Research - Speech Link
2: Hannah Spencer (Green - Gorton and Denton) Funding for the e-MERLIN radio telescope network is due to end in 2028, putting Jodrell Bank’s future at risk - Speech Link
3: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) monetary penalties to complement the existing criminal sanctions; fines would be set proportionally to risk - Speech Link
4: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of levels of service by Royal Mail. - Speech Link
5: Julie Minns (Lab - Carlisle) What assessment has been made of the potential of UK sites for developing heavy-lift rocket testing in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Highways (Financing) Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Thu 15 Oct 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) the costs of the Lower Thames Crossing, and therefore potential costs to its users under this Bill, risk - Speech Link
2: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) The last Government fought tooth and nail through the courts to deliver the scheme and get the planning - Speech Link
3: Mike Reader (Lab - Northampton South) , but the treatment of risk in the delivery of a major infrastructure project can make the difference - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 15 Oct 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) What assessment has the Home Office made of those numbers? - Speech Link
2: None The 2014 Act told courts to “have regard” to public interest considerations. - Speech Link
3: None What is the impact assessment built on? - Speech Link
4: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) Courts are basically over-interpreting Strasbourg. - Speech Link
5: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) We have tried to be realistic and transparent in the impact assessment. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Thu 15 Oct 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None If the courts read that limb down, what is left of the test? - Speech Link
2: None What assessment has the Home Office made of that displacement? - Speech Link
3: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) There is no risk to the Union and there is no risk to the Good Friday agreement in a legal sense. - Speech Link
4: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) posed by clause 18, according to the Government’s own impact assessment. - Speech Link
5: None I would question the Home Office’s ability to make that assessment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 14 Oct 2026
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) Gentleman to his post, and I am pleased that he has raised the updated legal risk guidance. - Speech Link
2: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Crown Prosecution Service in ensuring - Speech Link
3: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) By then, there is a real risk that crucial evidence will have been lost. - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) This Government continues to invest in our courts, but vital reforms are needed too. - Speech Link
5: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) However, the Government still intend to allow judge-only courts for complex cases, yet they have not - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 14 Oct 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Burnham (LAB - Makerfield) I have had to wait for the Government process, which was struck down by the courts under the Conservative - Speech Link
2: Andy Burnham (LAB - Makerfield) provision about fire safety in buildings containing multiple dwellings, including provision for the assessment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
MOD Bicester and Illegal Migrants - Wed 14 Oct 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) We all could see clearly that the safety of women and girls in that small village is at risk. - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) That puts my community at risk, and it puts at risk the people who are housed in the HMOs. - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Gentleman is talking about how a system can effectively manage the risk of the sites. - Speech Link
4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) However, the role of Government is to mitigate risk. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 13 Oct 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) A serious risk is that if those specialist legal advisers are brought into the tribunal system, they - Speech Link
2: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) Act 2022, which was drafted precisely with narrow exceptions and is accepted by the courts. - Speech Link
3: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) Particularly, this is also about case-specific assessment. - Speech Link
4: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) The impact assessment—again, the previous impact assessment, not the one that was issued yesterday—warns - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Tue 13 Oct 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) It brings asylum appeals under greater political control, putting at risk people’s basic human right - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) The risk to human rights here is huge. - Speech Link
3: Zubir Ahmed (Lab - Glasgow South West) Lady’s concerns about the initial quality of assessment. - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Whoever is recruited, training and assessment must be up to the job. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Courts and Tribunals Bill
Report stage - Tue 13 Oct 2026
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) survivors of domestic abuse.(2) The impact assessment published under this section must include an assessment - Speech Link
2: Rachel Taylor (Lab - North Warwickshire and Bedworth) Magistrates courts are the bedrock of our justice system. - Speech Link
3: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) Do we even have enough physical courts to cope with demand, when 165 magistrates courts were closed between - Speech Link
4: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) Even if we had capacity at the magistrates courts, where trials would be taken away from the Crown courts - Speech Link
5: None Where a parent poses a risk, courts will continue to be able to restrict their involvement. - Speech Link