Questions and statements: At 14:30, Defence Secretary John Healey MP and his ministerial team will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include the impact of defence spending on economic growth, the NATO target of defence expenditure at 5 percent of GDP, uncrewed defence systems, support for veterans, European security, the forthcoming Defence Investment Plan, Typhoon production, defence innovation, and the size of the armed forces.

At 15:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow. Each Urgent Question lasts around 40 minutes on average, and Ministerial Statements last an average of around 50 minutes.

Employment Rights Bill (Consideration of Lords Message): The House will once again consider Lords amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, after Peers last week narrowly voted by 244 to 220 to insist on one remaining change. Under the terms of the programme motion agreed on 15 September, this Commons debate will be time-limited to just one hour. (House of Commons Library briefing)

The sole remaining point of disagreement between the two Houses concerns unfair dismissal. As introduced, the Bill would have abolished the two-year qualifying period for bringing an unfair dismissal claim, giving employees this right from day one of their employment. The House of Lords amended the Bill to reduce the qualifying period not to zero but to six months. After several rounds of parliamentary ping-pong, the Government has now proposed a compromise amendment whereby the Lords’ six-month qualifying period is accepted but the cap on the level of compensation from unfair dismissal claims is removed.

Last week, while the Lords accepted four of the Government’s other positions (as covered in a previous Bulletin), it declined to endorse the proposed compromise on unfair dismissal.

Instead of accepting the Government’s position, the Lords has accepted the six-month qualifying period, but rejected the removal of the cap on compensation, putting in its place a requirement for the Government to conduct a review the cap.

The House of Commons must now decide how to respond. It can insist on its earlier compromise amendment (including removing the cap), accept the Lords’ latest proposal, or propose yet more alternative amendments. The Lords will then consider its response to the Commons on Tuesday.

Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill (Second Reading): This Bill makes changes to the regime for providing financial assistance to industry and export finance. (House of Commons Library briefing)

• Financial assistance to industry: Section 8 of the 1982 Industrial Development Act allows the Government to provide financial assistance where it is likely to benefit the economy or is otherwise in the national interest, subject to an aggregate limit of £12 billion. Ministers can raise this cap by up to £1 billion on no more than four occasions using a Statutory Instrument. The Bill will raise the aggregate limit to £20 billion and raise the amount by which the cap can be increased each time to £1.5 billion.

• Export finance: Under the Export and Investment Guarantee Act 1991, UK Export Finance is subject to a ceiling on the total value of guarantees it can issue to support UK exporters. This limit is currently 82,700 special drawing rights (SDR) – equivalent to £84 billion – which the Government may increase by Statutory Instrument in increments of 5,000 SDR at a time, no more than three times. The Bill would simplify the legislation by expressing the limits in pounds sterling for clarity, raise the aggregate limit to £160 billion, increase the amount by which the Government may raise the limit to £15 billion at a time, and remove the cap on the number of times the limit may be increased.

Once the Bill is given a Second Reading, it will proceed to Committee Stage. The programme motion on the Order Paper suggests that the Bill will be committed to a Committee of the Whole House for its Committee Stage, that Report Stage and Third Reading will take place on the same day as Committee Stage, and that all remaining stages will take place in a single three-hour debate.

The Order Paper notes that the Bill “is expected to be certified as a Money Bill”. This is a Bill which in the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons contains only provisions dealing with national taxation, public money or loans. If it is certified as such then the Bill is unlikely to be subject to amendment in the House of Lords. The House of Lords is not debarred from amending a Money Bill, provided that the amendments are passed within one month of the Bill being sent to the Lords, but there is no obligation on the Commons to consider any Lords amendments. Money Bills typically receive only a Second Reading debate in the Lords, with no Committee or Report Stage.

Statutory Instrument: The House will be asked to approve without further debate a draft Statutory Instrument that has been considered by a Delegated Legislation Committee:

• Building Safety Regulator (Establishment of New Body and Transfer of Functions etc.) Regulations 2026.

Presentation of Public Petition: Labour MP James Naish will present a public petition, on the Radcliffe-on-Trent to Cotgrave greenway.

Adjournment: Labour MP Chris Vince will give a speech on sudden cardiac death in young people. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

16:30: MPs will debate e-petition 722903, which calls for the repeal of the 2023 Online Safety Act. The petition has around 550,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committees:

18:00: The draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2025.

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on whether research grants are not open to white and Asian university applicants; the Technology Adoption Review; access to emergency adrenaline; and mammograms for women over 70.

Crime and Policing Bill (Committee, day 6): This is the sixth of 13 days currently allocated for Committee Stage on the Government’s Bill to reform the criminal justice and policing system. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, the House examines the Bill clause-by-clause and decides whether each clause should “stand part” of the Bill. The next clauses and groups of amendments to be debated relate to restrictions on sex offenders obtaining name changes, gender recognition certificates, new driving licences, criminal offences relating to dangerous cycling, protection from stalking, offences relating to encouraging or assisting self-harm, and driving offences.

Because amendments that are voted on and defeated at Committee Stage cannot be moved again at Report Stage, many amendments tabled at Committee Stage are probing amendments, designed to test the opinion of the Government or the mood of the wider House, before deciding whether to put the amendment to a vote at Report Stage.

Grand Committee: From 15:45, Peers will debate four draft Statutory Instruments:

• the Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 2025;

• the Oil and Gas Authority (Carbon Storage and Offshore Petroleum) (Specified Periods for Disclosure of Protected Material) Regulations 2026;

• the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025; and

• the Building Safety Regulator (Establishment of New Body and Transfer of Functions etc) Regulations 2026.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

14:00: Liaison Committee – The Prime Minister will appear before the Liaison Committee to answer questions from its members, who are the chairs of other House of Commons select committees. The Committee is chaired Dame Meg Hillier MP, who also chairs the Treasury Select Committee.

It is not practical for all 31 members of the Committee to question the Prime Minister. Instead, the following 12 select committee chairs will ask questions on two themes:

1. Standards in public life:

• Alberto Costa MP (Standards)

• Simon Hoare MP (Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs)

• Cat Smith MP (Procedure)

2. The Plan for Change, one year on:

• Dame Karen Bradley MP (Home Affairs)

• Alistair Carmichael MP (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

• Ruth Cadbury MP (Transport)

• Tan Dhesi MP (Defence)

• Bill Esterson MP (Energy Security and Net Zero)

• Patrica Ferguson MP (Scottish Affairs)

• Helen Hayes MP (Education)

• Simon Hoare MP (Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs)

• Andy Slaughter MP (Justice)

• Cat Smith MP (Procedure)

15:30: Public Accounts Committee – The Government’s use of external consultants: The Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and other senior officials will give evidence.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Questions and statements: At 11:30, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor David Lammy MP, and other Justice Ministers, will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include legal aid deportation of foreign national offenders, online misogyny, mediation in civil law, private contracting of criminal justice, prison security, proposals to reduce the use of jury trials, SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation), international law on child abduction and domestic abuse, open prisons, magistrates’ courts, and court backlogs.

At 12:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Labour MP Luke Akehurst will seek to introduce a Vacant Commercial Properties (Temporary Use) Bill under the Ten Minute Rule which allows MPs to give a ten-minute speech in favour of a Bill before seeking the House’s permission to introduce it. The Bill would enable local authorities to allow charities, community organisations and small businesses to use vacant commercial properties. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

Finance (No. 2) Bill (Second Reading): Today the House will debate legislation to give statutory effect to many of the tax changes announced in this year’s Budget Statement. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Not every tax measure announced in the Budget Statement appears in the Finance Bill. Some measures will be enacted through other legislation, including future Finance Bills. For example, the Electric Vehicle Excise Duty, changes to taxation of salary-sacrifice pension contribution schemes, and the ‘Mansion Tax’ surcharge on higher Council Tax bands will be introduced separately.

The Finance Bill also includes measures that were announced prior to this year’s Budget, including at last year’s Budget. These include changes to Inheritance Tax on agricultural property, and the removal of Winter Fuel Allowance from pensioners with an income above £35,000. The Finance Bill is also needed for certain taxes that require annual renewal, such as Income Tax.

As well as those measures, the Finance Bill includes the following tax changes announced in the Budget:

• freezing the personal allowance and other Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds at their current level until 2030/31;

• increasing the rates of Income Tax on incomes from dividends, savings, and property;

• increasing the rates of duties on remote gambling and betting;

• charging 20% VAT on taxis and private hire vehicles and on high-value vehicles purchased via the Motability scheme; and

• applying Capital Gains Tax to the sale of employee ownership trusts.

While Finance Bills generally follow the same legislative process as other legislation, there are some notable procedural differences.

• Timing of Second Reading: The Finance Bill must receive a Second Reading within 30 days of the Budget. If this deadline is not met then the Provisional Collection of Taxes motion agreed on Budget Day – which gives immediate but temporary legal effect to certain taxes changes – would lapse.

• Admissibility of amendments: The general rules on amendments that apply to other bills also apply to the Finance Bill, but additional restrictions are imposed. First, any amendment can only have the effect of reducing taxation. Second, because the Finance Bill is founded on Budget ‘resolutions’ agreed by the House at the end of the Budget debate, these resolutions define the scope of the Bill and therefore the scope of any amendments. As a result, amendments may introduce or increase a tax relief only where it is within the scope of a relevant Budget resolution, and any such relief may not exceed the amount specified in the Budget resolutions.

• Split committal: While most bills undergo Committee Stage in either Committee of the Whole House (held in the Chamber, where all MPs may participate) or in a Public Bill Committee (held in a Committee room, with participation limited to Committee members only), Finance Bills are subject to ‘split committal’, with more controversial clauses scrutinised by the whole House and the rest of the Bill scrutinised in a Public Bill Committee (PBC).

• Size of Public Bill Committee: Reflecting the size and complexity of Finance Bills, their PBCs are typically larger than usual, comprising up to 40 MPs compared with the 16 to 20 MPs that normally serve on a Public Bill Committee.

• Timing of stages: As a general rule, no more than one stage of a Finance Bill may be taken on the same day. This practice is occasionally relaxed to allow Third Reading to follow immediately after Report Stage. Crucially, however, Report Stage will not take place immediately after Committee of the Whole House, as sometimes happens with other bills.

• Money Bill: As a Money Bill, it is subject to much more limited scrutiny in the House of Lords. As outlined in Monday’s section (above), Money Bills typically receive only a Second Reading in the Lords, with the remaining stages taken as a formality.

The programme motion to be moved after Second Reading will be published on Tuesday’s order paper. This will indicate which clauses of the Bill will be scrutinised in Committee of the Whole House, and which will be sent to a Public Bill Committee.

Presentation of Public Petitions: Liberal Democrat MP Tom Morrison will present a public petition on green belt protection. He will be followed by his party colleague, Tom Gordon, who will present a petition on the House of Lords.

Adjournment: The leader of Plaid Cymru’s parliamentary party, Liz Saville Roberts MP, will give a speech on the criminal justice system in Wales. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: Planning policy for quarries (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: No Recourse to Public Funds and homelessness (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: Government support for grassroots cricket clubs (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on graduates

16:30: Provision of healthcare for transgender people

Delegated Legislation Committees

09:25: The draft Oil and Gas Authority (Carbon Storage and Offshore Petroleum) (Specified Periods for Disclosure of Protected Material) Regulations 2026

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on funding for free school meals; large-scale sites for asylum accommodation; the Women’s Health Strategy for England; and funding allocations to local authorities for homelessness

Motion to establish a select committee: Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon has a motion on the Order Paper to establish a new select committee to consider the Government's manifesto proposals for a retirement age and participation requirement for the House of Lords.

The Government committed to establishing such a select committee during the earlier stages of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill. Under the terms of the motion, the Committee shall consider and report on:

• the impact of a retirement age on the House, particularly its size and functioning;

• the impact of a participation requirement on the House particularly in relation to its membership and functioning; and

• options for the implementation of a retirement age and participation requirement, including options that would not require primary legislation and any appropriate transitional measures.

The motion sets a deadline of 31 July 2026 for the Committee to report.

Commons Amendments and/or Reasons: Another round of ping-pong on the Employment Rights Bill is anticipated. With the Commons expected on Monday to reject the Lords’ proposal to retain the compensation cap for unfair dismissal claims and instead support its complete removal, the Lords will today consider its response.

The Lords has three options: to insist on its proposal not to lift the compensation cap, to accept the Commons’ position and remove the cap altogether, or to propose a further alternative. Only if the Lords accepts the Commons position without proposing an alternative will the Bill proceed to Royal Assent.

If the Lords does not accept the Commons position, the Commons is scheduled to consider any further messages from the Lords on this Bill on Wednesday.

Victims and Courts Bill (Second Reading): Peers will debate the Government’s legislation on victims and criminal justice, which has already passed through the House of Commons. The Bill’s central provisions were outlined in a previous edition of the Bulletin. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Second Reading, Peers will debate the general principles underlying the Bill. No amendments to the text can be made at this stage. The House of Lords rarely votes against Government Bills at Second Reading, and they usually proceed without a division. Once the Bill has received its Second Reading, it will be committed for detailed clause-by-clause scrutiny in Grand Committee.

Grand Committee

15:45: Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill (Committee, day 1): This is the first of two days allocated for consideration of the Bill to implement the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction, often called the BBNJ Agreement or the High Seas Treaty. The second and final day will take place on Thursday. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, the House examines the Bill clause-by-clause and decides whether each clause should “stand part” of the Bill. The Committee considers the clauses and amendments in the order in which they appear, or would appear, in the Bill, so the House will consider the early clauses in the Bill, which relate to marine genetic resources.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

10:00: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee – The future of farming, and fisheries and the marine environment: Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs Dame Angela Eagle MP and other senior officials will give evidence.

10:00: Treasury Committee – The Chief Executive and the Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will give evidence on the work of the organisation.

10:30: Defence Committee – The Committee will host an introductory session with the Ministry of Defence’s new National Armaments Director.

14:00: Foreign Affairs Committee – Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Permanent Secretary Sir Oliver Robbins will give evidence on the FCDO’s work.

14:00: International Development Committee – Women, peace and security: Minister for Human Rights Chris Elmore MP and Minister for the Armed Forces Alistair Carns MP will give evidence on the UK’s progress in protecting women and girls around the world.

14:30: Justice Committee – Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor David Lammy MP will give evidence on his work.

15:00: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee – The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones MP, will give evidence on his work.

House of Lords

15:00: Economic Affairs Committee – The UK’s fiscal framework: The Chief of Staff at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and two members of the OBR’s Budget Responsibility Committee will give evidence.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Details of Wednesday’s business can be found below.

Questions and statements: At 11:30, Science, Innovation and Technology Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include support for sectors identified in the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025; tackling online content promoting the torture of animals; tackling online harassment; support for young people to develop AI skills; the introduction of a nationwide digital ID system; and steps being taken to ensure freedom of expression for women’s health publications on social media.

At 12:00, Sir Keir Starmer is set to face the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, at Prime Minister’s Questions.

At 12:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Labour MP Natasha Irons will seek to introduce a Youth Services Bill under the Ten Minute Rule which allows MPs to give a ten-minute speech in favour of a Bill before seeking the House’s permission to introduce it. The Bill would make provision about the delivery of youth services by local authorities.

Consideration of Lords Message (if necessary): This will be necessary if on Tuesday the House of Lords does not accept the Commons position on the Employment Rights Bill in relation to the elimination of the cap on compensation for unfair dismissal claims. If MPs stand firm, the Bill will then be sent back to the Lords. The Government Whips have indicated that this would take place later today, at approximately 15:45. If the Lords again refuses to back down, the Commons will hold a further round of ping-pong later today, following the Second Reading debate on the National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill. Under the terms of the programme motion agreed on 15 September, each of these debates on amendments to the Employment Relations Bill would be time-limited to one hour.

Only once both Houses have agreed to the same version of the Bill can it be sent to receive Royal Assent.

National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill (Second Reading): The House will debate legislation to implement a £2,000 annual cap on the amount of employee pension contributions made through salary sacrifice that are exempt from National Insurance (NICs), as announced in November’s Budget. (House of Commons Library briefing)

While most of the Budget tax changes are included the Finance Bill, changes to NICs require separate legislation. The Finance Bill makes provision for public expenditure for central government as a whole, rather than for particular items or purposes. The money raised by NICs is allocated specifically to the National Insurance Fund, which is disbursed for contributory benefits and cannot be spent for wider purposes. Separate legislation is thus needed. The key procedural consequence is that the House of Lords is able to amend the Bill and, as a result, Committee and Report Stage in the Lords will take place in the usual way, unlike for Money Bills.

Adjournment: Conservative MP Dr Andrew Murrison will give a speech on workplace safety and water-fed poles in the window cleaning industry. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: The potential impact of proposed asylum reforms on people with protected characteristics seeking asylum (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Ashgate Hospice and palliative care in north Derbyshire (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote)

14:30: The cumulative impacts of housing development

16:00: Neurodiversity in the workplace (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote)

16:30: Government support for membership-based charity organisations

Delegated Legislation Committees

14:30: The draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025.

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Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on employment of blind and sight-impaired people; the Fair Work Agency; and the Office for the Impact Economy. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 15 December.

Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill (Committee Stage): At approximately 15:45, the House is expected to begin clause-by-clause scrutiny of this Private Member’s Bill to create an offence of unauthorised entry at football matches for which a football banning order can be imposed. It has completed all its Commons stages and is supported by the Government. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Although Private Members’ Bills are usually considered on Fridays, uncontroversial bills often progress on other sitting days, with the co-operation of the Government. So far, no amendments have been tabled. If none are submitted by Tuesday and no Peer signals an intention to speak, the Bill’s sponsor in the Lords (Labour Peer Lord Brennan of Canton) may move at the start of the debate “that the order of commitment (or re-commitment) be discharged”, enabling the Bill to bypass Committee Stage entirely. However, if any amendments are tabled before the sitting, the Government may choose to reschedule the debate to a Friday sitting instead, to allow time for fuller consideration.

Crime and Policing Bill (Committee, day 7 of 13): The House will resume scrutiny of this Bill to reform the criminal justice and policing system from the point reached at Monday’s sitting. (House of Lords Library briefing)

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:15: Transport Committee – The Railways Bill: Scottish Government Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP and senior rail officials in Scotland and Wales will give evidence.

09:30: Scottish Affairs Committee – Closure of Mossmorran chemical plant: Representatives of trade unions, local government, and the chemicals sector will give evidence.

14:30: Welsh Affairs Committee – Prisons, probation and rehabilitation in Wales: Prisons and Probation Minister Lord Timpson will give evidence.

Joint

14:15: Joint Committee on Human Rights – Human rights and the regulation of AI: Representatives of the legal sector and AI experts will give evidence.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Questions and statements: At 09:30, Emma Reynolds and the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ministerial team will face questions from MPs. Topics include the profitability of farming; steps to improve air quality; negotiations between British Sugar and NFU Sugar over the terms of future sugar beet contracts; restrictions on the use of lead in ammunition; the adequacy of flood defences; the potential impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on the hospitality sector; and steps to support farming.

Any Urgent Questions will follow.

The Leader of the House of Commons, Sir Alan Campbell MP, will present the weekly Business Statement, setting out the business in the House for the next couple of weeks after the Christmas recess, and answering questions about anything that Members might want debated. Any Ministerial Statements will follow.

Christmas adjournment debate: It has become the normal practice for the House to hold a special, all-day adjournment debate as the final item of business before rising for the Summer and Christmas recesses. During this debate, MPs may speak on any topic of their choosing.

Adjournment: Labour MP Chris Webb will give a speech on English indices of deprivation 2025. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

13:30: Cultural contribution of Jane Austen (House of Commons Library briefing)

15:00: Community audiology (House of Commons Library briefing)

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Oral questions: At 11:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on girls studying STEM subjects; the use of digital technology by pre-school children; and the jobs market. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 16 December.

Pension Schemes Bill (Second Reading): Peers will debate the Government’s legislation to reform the regulation of pension schemes, which has already passed through the House of Commons. The Bill’s central provisions were outlined in a previous edition of the Bulletin.

At Second Reading, Peers will debate the general principles underlying the Bill. No amendments to the text can be made at this stage. The House of Lords rarely votes against Government Bills at Second Reading, and they usually proceed without a division. Once the Bill has received its Second Reading, it will be committed for detailed clause-by-clause scrutiny in Grand Committee.

Grand Committee

13:00: Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill (Committee, day 2): This is the second and final day allocated for Committee Stage of the Government’s legislation to implement the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction, also known as the BBNJ Agreement or the High Seas Treaty. (House of Lords Library briefing)

The Committee will resume scrutiny of the Bill’s clauses and proposed amendments from the point at which the Committee finished on Tuesday. The debates are likely to focus on the later clauses of the Bill, which relate to marine licensing.

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Only one select committee is set to meet today:

House of Commons

10:00: Public Accounts Committee – National Savings and Investments (NS&I) transformation programme: The Chief Executive of NS&I, the Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury, and other senior Treasury and NS&I officials will give evidence.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Both Houses rise for the Christmas recess on Thursday 18 December 2025. They will return at 14:30 on Monday 5 January 2026. Our next Bulletin will therefore be published on Sunday 4 January.

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