January 2022

Procedure Committee launches a new inquiry into Written Parliamentary Questions: Departmental performance in Session 2024-25

The Joint Committee on Human Rights will question Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Shabana Mahmood MP, on Wednesday 30 April in a wide-ranging session examining prominent human rights issues.

The Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee has written to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband after promised commitments on the Government’s plans for the Seventh Carbon Budget have failed to materialise.

In widely reported evidence to the BTC’s ongoing inquiry into the UK’s industrial strategy, auto executives warned that Donald Trump’s tariffs could lead to thousands of British manufacturing layoffs within “weeks rather than months”, as they called for a major intervention from Government to support the industry.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, the author of a 2010 review that warned of rising health inequalities if relative poverty was not addressed, will give evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee as part of its Pensioner Poverty inquiry.

The Speaker of the House of Commons recreated the symbolic switching on of the Ayrton Light at the top of the Elizabeth Tower on Thursday – 80 years after his predecessor did the same, to mark the nearing of peace from the Second World War.

Find out what's coming up in the House of Commons 28 April – 1 May

The Home Affairs Committee continues its inquiry into asylum accommodation with an evidence session on Tuesday 29 April. The Committee will hear from representatives of local authorities and refugee support groups about the current state of the asylum accommodation system.

On Monday 28 April, MPs will debate a petition relating to the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures.

Government shares calculation for £45 billion annual savings from digitisation of public sector

Commenting on the announcement today of David Kogan as the Government’s preferred candidate for Chair of the new Independent Football Regulator, CMS Chair Dame Caroline Dinenage.

The preferred candidate for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Paula Sussex CBE, has been approved by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

The Justice Committee will question senior leaders of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) during a one-off evidence session on Tuesday, 29 April on its work.

The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) will hear from the creator, writer and executive producer of Adolescence Jack Thorne and fellow executive producer Emily Feller during an evidence session in Parliament on Tuesday, 29 April on misogyny among young men and boys.

Discover the business in the House of Lords between 22-25 April