BLOG | The assisted dying bill: Could it run out of time? The number of amendments and debate's slow start have prompted concern that the Bill could fall for lack of time. This blog looks at the potential options for creating more parliamentary time. 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/assiste...

BLOG | Assisted dying bill: Is the number of Lords amendments a parliamentary record? Our new blog examines how the Bill's amendment count - now over 1,000 - compares with other bills over the last two decades. Check it out below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/assiste...

GUIDE | A procedural guide to the Budget process 💰 With two days to go, our comprehensive guide to the Budget process explains how the Government gains parliamentary approval for its taxation plans. It includes briefings on... www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

What's happening in Parliament this week? 💷 Budget Day 📺 Culture Select Cmtt questions BBC officials 🟢 Foreign Affairs Cmtt joint session with Ukrainian counterpart 🏛️ Devolution Bill to complete Commons stages 👇 Read our latest Parliament Matters Bulletin www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 📣 Statements likely on Covid inquiry, Ukraine and G20 📺 BBC bosses questioned by select committee 🏛️ English Devolution Bill (Report Stage) 📝 Gaza e-petition debate Find more details below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

What’s happening in Parliament this week? 💷 Budget Day: Chancellor unveils Budget 📺 BBC editorial standards scrutinised at Culture Select Cmtt 🇺🇦 Foreign Affairs Cmtt holds joint session with Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish & Czech counterparts 👇 Read our Parliament Matters Bulletin. Link in next post.

BLOGS | With the assisted dying bill due to resume Committee Stage tomorrow, we've just published two new blogposts. The first looks at whether the over 1,000 total amendments proposed is unprecedented... Read below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/assiste...

🎉 Congratulations to our former Hansard Society Scholar Jess Wilson (Class of 2012) on becoming the new Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria! The Programme was all about developing future leaders so it’s inspiring to see another of our alumni making their mark.

TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🪖 Debate on new Northern Ireland Troubles legislation 🌍 Chagos Islands legislation begins Lords Committee Stage 🔋 Energy Secretary faces oral questions More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament? 👮 Home Secretary makes statement on asylum policy & faces oral questions 🌊 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill (Remaining Stages) 💼 Employment Rights Bill ping-pong continues More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

What’s coming up in Westminster this week? 👀 ❓ Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces questions from MPs 📜 MPs debate Northern Ireland Troubles Bill for 🪖 Chagos Islands Bill faces Cmtt stage in the Lords Full preview in our Parliament Matters bulletin. Link is in the post below 👇

🎙️ New episode: The Assisted Dying Bill is at a crunch point in the Lords. (And yes — there really are 900+ amendments). 🗣️ Lord Falconer explains the stakes ⚖️ Scrutiny vs delay 🧪 The contested policy issues 🏛️ Commons–Lords dynamics ⏳ Will it become law? 🔗 Listen ⤵️ buff.ly/mGnRYj8

🚨 Tomorrow on Parliament Matters we talk to Lord Falconer about the Assisted Dying Bill - why he says the current law is “unfit for purpose,” and what’s next as 900+ amendments land in the Lords. Don’t miss it — subscribe using your favourite podcast app to get it in the morning. buff.ly/6oCRgSa

THURSDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🏠 Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Lords amendments) 🌳 DEFRA oral questions 🔴 Peers debate tax and economic policy; Hillsborough Law; and biodiversity More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

When the first Chair of the House of Commons Petitions Committee was told “the Government doesn’t want you to do this,” she replied: “I do not serve the Government, I serve the House.” 🎧 Hear the full story — 10 years of petitions and people power. buff.ly/DtFCEsn

BLOG | Assisted dying bill: How does Committee Stage work in the Lords? With Committee Stage due to begin on Friday, this blog explains how Committee Stage works in the House of Lords and how long the stage is likely to take. Read below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/assiste...

You’ve signed petitions. Maybe even started one. But what really happens after 100,000 signatures? 🎧 Hear four Chairs of the House of Commons Petitions Committee explain what your click actually does — and how it can change the law. buff.ly/DtFCEsn

This afternoon, Labour MP @jenny4suffcoast.bsky.social will seek to present a Ten-Minute Rule Bill on road safety measures near schools What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? ❓ PMQs 🔵 Conservative Opposition Day 📊 Debates on data centres and immigration fees 🧑‍⚖️ Peers debate Sentencing Bill (Second Reading) 🚑 JCHR scrutinises assisted dying bill More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

If you’ve ever signed, shared, or started a petition, our latest episode of Parliament Matters is for you. 10 years of House of Commons petitions by the people who’ve chaired it: @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social, @catsmithmp.bsky.social, @jamie4north.bsky.social 🎧 Listen buff.ly/DtFCEsn

The House of Commons Petitions Committee is the only place in Parliament where the public sets the agenda. Ten years on — is it actually the most powerful pressure valve in UK politics? 🎧 Four Chairs. One conversation. Their verdict ▶️ buff.ly/DtFCEsn

This afternoon, Liberal Democrat MP @calummillerld.bsky.social will seek to present a Ten-Minute Rule Bill to seize Russian assets to use as aid for Ukraine. What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

🎙️ New episode: Do Petitions Work? 10 years on, we bring together four Chairs of the House of Commons Petitions Committee for a candid conversation about what happens after hundreds of thousands (or sometimes millions) of people click “sign”. 🔗 Listen: buff.ly/DtFCEsn

TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 👨‍⚖️ David Lammy faces questions 🌸 Remembrance Day debate on the Armed Forces 👮 Peers debate Border Security Bill 🪑 Three cabinet ministers give evidence to committees More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🟢 House of Commons not sitting 🏠 Peers expected to pass Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👮 Peers begin Committee Stage of Crime and Policing Bill More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

What’s coming up in Westminster this week? 👀 — Assisted dying bill in the Lords — David Lammy in the Commons for questions — Crime & Policing Bill: kicks off its 12-day Lords committee marathon Full preview in our Parliament Matters bulletin. Link is in the post below 👇

🎧 Weekend listening... How the Glorious Revolution, Whigs & Tories — and the race to fund war — forged modern party politics. This week we talk to George Owers about his magnificent book, Rage of Party. Listen here via your preferred podcast app ⤵️ pod.link/1714627828/e...

🎙️ New episode Where did two-party politics actually come from? (Clue: it was chaotic from day one ⚔️) 👑 Monarchs v ministers 📜 Whigs v Tories 🧮 Parliamentary dark arts 🔗 Listen ⤵️ pod.link/1714627828/e...

420 years ago today, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled in the cellars of the House of Lords. The event is still marked now, when members of the Yeomen of the Guard ceremonially search the cellars of the House of Lords before the King arrives for the State Opening of Parliament. ⬇️

WEDNESDAY: What is coming up in Parliament today? ❓ Deputy PM David Lammy answers PMQs 🏓 Employment Rights Bill ping-pong 👮 Peers debate Borders Bill 💰 George Osborne & Vince Cable at Treasury Committee More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

This afternoon, Labour MP @alicemlabour.bsky.social will seek to introduce a Ten-Minute Rule Bill to create a right to paid time off work for fertility treatment. What is a Ten-Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...

TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 💰 Chancellor answers oral questions 🔵 Conservative Opposition Day on high streets and welfare spending 🌍 Lords debates Chagos Islands bill More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🟢 Hillsborough Law (Second Reading) 🔴 Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Report Stage) 🪑 Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Office Perm Sec give evidence More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

What’s happening in Westminster this week? Our Parliament Matters bulletin previews: — Hillsborough Law debate — Chagos Islands bill — Committees on Lord Mandelson’s appointment, the Afghan data-breach super-injunction, and Budget proposals Link in the post below 👇

🎙️ New episode out now! 🇬🇧 Why did Nigel Farage’s 10 Minute Rule Bill to pull Britain out of the ECHR fail? 🚨 Tackling abuse of MPs after the Speaker’s Conference 🏛️ Westminster Hall debates: the history of MPs' second chamber 🔗 Listen here: buff.ly/9mmSwv0

THURSDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 📈 Business and Trade questions 📣 Debates on property service charges and end-of-life care 📜 Peers debate six items of delegated legislation More detail below 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

Reform UK's Nigel Farage will seek to present a Bill on UK withdrawal from the ECHR at around 12:30 today. He will make a ten-minute speech, after which there may be a further speech and a division. Our guide below explains the procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills🔽

This week marks 75 years since the House of Commons Chamber was rebuilt, following its bombing during the Blitz. At 11am today, all MPs will gather in the Chamber for a photo to commemorate the occasion...

WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? ❓ Prime Minister's Questions 📜 Nigel Farage seeks to introduce Bill to leave ECHR 🧑‍⚖️ Lord Hermer & Darren Jones give evidence on China spying case 💰 Committee hearing on Budget 2025 More below 🔽 buff.ly/G4zayLJ

Tomorrow, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will seek to introduce a Ten-Minute Rule Bill for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. Our guide explains the procedure for Ten-Minute Rule Bills, and why they rarely become law. 🔽 buff.ly/HZFYM1o

TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🔵 Conservative Opposition Day debate 🌍 Foreign Secretary to face MPs' questions 💼 Employment Rights Bill ping-pong 💰 Select committee hearing on Budget 2025 More detail below 🔽 buff.ly/PzChRIK

MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🕵️ DPP questioned on China spying case 🧑‍⚖️ Victims and Courts Bill 🪑 Select committee membership changes 🏠 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Read more below🔽 buff.ly/q5WJJ6T

🎧 Weekend listening 👑 What can Parliament do about Prince Andrew? 🗣️ Is PMQs unfair to Nigel Farage? 💣 75 years on, we revisit how the Commons Chamber was rebuilt, with stories of POW quarriers & 15-year-old carvers who shaped democracy’s home. Listen: buff.ly/qJYbQ4d

🧵 #OTD 75 years ago MPs returned to a rebuilt House of Commons Chamber, nine years after the original was destroyed in the Blitz. The rebuilding wasn’t without controversy. With Britain still recovering from war, some questioned the cost and use of labour, including German POWs....

What’s happening in Westminster this week? Our Parliament Matters Bulletin breaks down the key debates and decisions — from the China spying inquiry to major bills on sentencing & planning. Stay informed — no spin, just facts. Link is in the post below👇

🎧 NEW - What, if anything, can Parliament do about Prince Andrew? - Should Nigel Farage get a right of reply at PMQs? - 75 years after the Commons Chamber was rebuilt, the tangled tale of the architect's lost model that is now back on display in Parliament Listen: buff.ly/qJYbQ4d

WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? ❓ PMQs 🏠 Renters' Rights Bill 🩺 Modern slavery & trafficking in NHS procurement 🏛️ Devolution in Scotland 🚑 Assisted dying bill select committee More detail below 🔽 buff.ly/UpQDXfl

🟢 The House of Commons will shortly begin today's sitting. Find out what MPs are due to discuss and vote on - including details of bills, motions, debates and select committees - using our Parliament Matters Bulletin. Check it out below 🔽 buff.ly/qvlyUSb

This afternoon, Conservative MP @bromsgrovebradley.bsky.social will present a bill to require certain companies to report cyber extortion or ransomware attacks to the Government, including any payments made. What are Ten Minute Rule Bills? Our guide explains 🔽

TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? 🧑‍⚖️ MPs debate Sentencing Bill 🪪 Peers debate Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 🚑 Oral questions to Health Ministers 💰 Bank of England Governor at select committee More info below 🔽 buff.ly/qvlyUSb