April 2018

Uphill struggle ahead for Govt’s use of AI as PAC report reveals the scale of the challenge
Out of date tech and poor-quality data put public sector adoption at risk as public trust jeopardised over transparency in use of algorithms
26 March 2025

Chair comment: Government's candidate for Innovate UK chair
Commenting on the announcement of the Government’s preferred candidate for the next executive chair of Innovate UK.
25 March 2025

Lords completes examination of non-domestic rating bill
Final chance to 'tidy-up' bill. Catch up
25 March 2025

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: call for evidence
Planning and Infrastructure Bill: call for evidence
25 March 2025

How far can a redeployed oil and gas workforce take us toward clean, secure energy?
Evidence in this inquiry has revealed the scale of the challenge to create the UK workforce to deliver the Clean Energy Mission and to de-carbonise homes and businesses.
25 March 2025

Lords scrutiny of Church of Scotland bill concludes
Consideration completed on draft law to allow Roman Catholics to be appointed as Church of Scotland Lord High Commissioners. Catch up
25 March 2025

Lords conclude Armed Forces Commissioner Bill checks
Members considered changes to draft law. Catch up
25 March 2025

Still unfinished business: BTC asks Government to ‘reflect and revise’ Post Office Horizon redress plan
The Business and Trade Committee is today taking the unusual step of asking the Government to ‘reflect and revise’ its response to its January 1st report on finally achieving long-delayed justice and redress for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – described as the greatest miscarriage of justice in UK history.
25 March 2025

MPs approve preferred candidate for Crown Estate Chair
The Government’s preferred candidate for the role of Chair of the Crown Estate, Ric Lewis, has been approved by the Treasury Committee
24 March 2025

Can the National Wealth Fund move the dial on growth? New inquiry launched
The Treasury Committee is launching an inquiry into the NWF, aiming to understand if it has the tools and backing to drive meaningful growth in the UK economy
24 March 2025

More women than men in DSIT science and engineering roles
Following a one-off evidence session with the science minister, Lord Patrick Vallance, the Committee’s chair, Chi Onwurah, wrote to the minister to request further information on the diversity of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s workforce.
24 March 2025

Spring Statement 2025
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver the 2025 Spring Statement in the House of Commons on Wednesday 26 March
24 March 2025

Women and Equalities Committee's call for statutory miscarriage bereavement leave to progress in the Lords, Government says
The Women and Equalities Committee’s “invaluable” report on miscarriage bereavement leave highlighted “the gap in support for women and their partners who experience a pre-24-week pregnancy loss”, the Government response has said.
24 March 2025

Speaker attends the European Conference of the Presidents of Parliament
On Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March 2025, the Speaker of the House of Commons attended the European Conference of the Presidents of Parliament, held at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
24 March 2025

Social Mobility Policy Committee launch call for evidence
Call for evidence launched into Social Mobility Policy.
24 March 2025
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2018
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April 2018
- Commons Speaker John Bercow leads tributes to Lord Martin of Springburn
- Urgent Question on the proposed merger of Sainsbury's and Asda
- Urgent Question on the Windrush scandal
- Statement on Syria: 30 April 2018
- This week in the Commons: 27 April 2018
- 60 years of life peers
- Commons Private Members' Bills: 27 April 2018
- Statement on Stamp Duty Land Tax: 26 April 2018
- Statement on Artificial intelligence sector deal
- Urgent Question on removal targets in the Home Office
- Lords debates Bat Habitats Regulation Bill
- Lords examines Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill
- MPs debate school funding and social care
- Prime Minister's Questions: 25 April 2018
- Statement on the takeover of GKN: 24 April 2018
- Urgent Question on Capita: 24 April 2018
- Urgent Question on Yemen: 24 April 2018
- Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill: call for evidence
- Lord Speaker discusses role of second chamber
- Urgent Question on voter ID pilots: 23 April 2018
- Statement on Windrush: 23 April 2018
- This week in the Commons: 20 April 2018
- Urgent Question: Government legal challenge to devolved Brexit legislation
- Urgent Question: Gender pay gap: 18 April 2018
- Prime Minister's Questions: 18 April 2018
- AIDS remains a 'dark cloud over the world' says Lord Fowler
- Lords debates national security situation
- Emergency debate: Parliamentary approval of military action overseas
- Emergency debate on Syria
- Laser Misuse (Vehicles) Bill: Committee and remaining stages
- Urgent Question: Immigration status of Windrush generation children
- Statement: Syria: 16 April 2018
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April 2018