Questions and statements: At 14:30, Housing, Communities and Local Government Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include social and affordable housing; homelessness; local government elections; Pride in Place funding; new towns; local authority spending; flood resilience; temporary accommodation; estate management companies; the private rented sector; and Islamophobia.

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. Possible topics include the G20 Summit in South Africa, the situation in Ukraine, and the Covid Inquiry report on decision-making and political governance.

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Report, day 1): The central provisions of the Bill were outlined in a previous edition of the Bulletin. At Report Stage, the whole House debates and votes on proposed amendments and new clauses. Two days have been allocated for Report Stage, a relatively rare occurrence typically reserved for larger and more controversial bills. (House of Commons Library briefing)

The House will first consider a programme motion which will determine the structure and timings of debate over the two days. The Government proposes that on day 1 the House will consider amendments to Parts 1 and 2 of the Bill, which relate to the structure and functions of the proposed new Strategic Authorities. This will also include any new clauses related to the same subject matter. On the second day the House will consider amendments and new clauses relating to Parts 3 to 6, which concern the re-organisation of two-tier authorities, assets of community value, local audit, business tenancies, and the general and administrative provisions of the Bill.

Only Government amendments and any amendments selected for separate decision by the Speaker – most likely those proposed by Conservative frontbenchers – will be put to the House for a vote at the end of each day.

The Government has tabled 62 amendments, including some technical and drafting changes, as well as new provisions to:

• exempt councils currently operating under a committee system from the requirement to move to a ‘leader and cabinet’ system if a referendum has taken place in the last ten years;

• end the requirement to publish councillors’ home addresses;

• widen the definition of health inequalities that regional mayors must address, to include air quality and access to green space and bodies of water; and

• confer new licensing functions on the Mayor of London.

The Conservative Shadow Minister David Simmonds has also tabled 31 amendments.

Statutory Instruments: The House will be asked to approve without further debate two draft Statutory Instruments that have been considered by Delegated Legislation Committees:

• the draft Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025; and

• the draft Procurement Act 2023 (Specified International Agreements and Saving Provision) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

Presentation of Public Petition: Liberal Democrat MP Vikki Slade will present a public petition, on the sale of disposable barbeques.

Adjournment: Conservative MP Rebecca Paul will give a speech on the safety and wellbeing of female prisoners at Downview prison. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

16:30: MPs will debate e-petition 700682, which calls on the Government to urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza. The petition has just under 200,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library Briefing on Israel and the Occupied Territories and UNRWA and UK aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip).

Delegated Legislation Committee

18:00: The draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Extension to Unconnected Multiple Employer Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on the provision of wheelchair services by the NHS and social care; research into brain tumours; non-crime hate incidents; and the Fair Funding Review.

Statutory Instrument: A motion to approve the draft Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 will be put to the House. As the Regulations have already been considered in Grand Committee, the motion will be decided without further debate.

Mental Health Bill (Consideration of Commons Amendments): The Mental Health Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords. During its passage, Peers inserted four groups of amendments against the wishes of the Government, as outlined in a previous edition of the Bulletin. The Lords then approved the Bill as amended and sent it to the House of Commons for consideration. (House of Lords Library briefing)

In the Commons, the Government removed all four groups of amendments that the Lords inserted. Having completed its stages in the Commons, the Bill is now returning to the House of Lords, where Peers will decide how to respond to the Commons’ decisions. The four groups of amendments removed by the Commons are likely to be the main source of disagreement. The Lords can now either insist on their original amendments, agree with the Commons position, or propose alternative amendments. Only if Peers agree with the Commons position on all four issues will the Bill be sent for Royal Assent; otherwise, the Bill will return to the Commons for another round of ping-pong.

Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Consideration of Commons Amendments): Having been considered first by the House of Commons, this Bill was sent to the House of Lords where Peers inserted nine amendments against the wishes of the Government, each outlined in a recent edition of the Bulletin.

When the Bill returned to the Commons on Thursday 13 November, MPs voted to reject eight of the nine amendments outright, without suggesting any alternative. The amendment relating to the accessibility of electric vehicle charging points was conceded by the Government, which proposed its own version of the amendment that largely preserves the effect of the original Lords amendment.

As the Commons has disagreed with the Lords on eight outstanding issues, the Bill returns to the Lords, where Peers must decide how to respond. For each of the original Lords amendments, Peers must decide whether to insist on their original amendment, accept the Commons position, or propose an alternative amendment. If and only if the Lords agrees with the Commons position on all eight issues, the Bill will be sent for Royal Assent. Otherwise, it will return to the Commons for a further round of ping-pong.

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Consideration of Commons Reason): This Bill was first passed by the House of Commons. During its subsequent passage through the Lords, the Government suffered one defeat, on an amendment to require the Government to collate and publish data on the number of overseas students who have had their visas revoked or have been deported as a result of criminal offences, and for that data to be broken down by nationality.

When the Bill returned to the House of Commons last Wednesday, MPs disagreed with that amendment. The Bill is therefore returning to the House of Lords, where Peers must decide whether to insist on their original amendment, accept the Commons’ position, or propose an alternative. The Bill will head for Royal Assent if and only if the Lords accepts the Commons’ position; otherwise, it will return to the House of Commons for another round of ping-pong.

Statement: Update on ExxonMobil Mossmorran: Business and Trade Minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra will make a statement about the closure of the ExxonMobil Fife ethylene plant at Mossmorran in Scotland. This is expected to mirror the statement made by the Minister for Industry in the House of Commons last week.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

15:30: Culture, Media and Sport Committee – The work of the BBC: BBC officials will give evidence in the wake of the recent Panorama scandal. Michael Prescott, whose leaked internal report sparked the crisis, will appear first, followed by the BBC’s chair Samir Shah and board member Sir Robbie Gibb.

15:30: Public Accounts Committee – Increasing police productivity: Home Office Permanent Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo 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, Health and Social Care Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include patient access to GPs, parity of esteem between mental and physical health services, cancer services, NHS backlogs, hospital repairs, men’s health services, NHS dentistry, health inequalities, valproate and pelvic mesh, industrial action in the NHS, palliative care and clinical trials.

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

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Conservative MP Dr Andrew Murrison will seek to introduce a Waste Incinerators 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 prohibit construction of new waste incinerators, make provision about the taxation of waste disposed by incineration, and prohibit local authorities from entering into any contract which requires them to pay financial penalties if a minimum amount of waste is not delivered for incineration. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Report day 2 and Third Reading): The Bill’s Report Stage – during which the whole House debates and votes on proposed amendments and new clauses – will continue into its second day, having begun on Monday. (House of Commons Library briefing)

The programme motion proposed to the House on Monday specifies that today’s debate will focus on amendments to, and new clauses relating to Parts 3 to 6 of the Bill, which concern re-organisation of two-tier authorities, assets of community value, local audit, business tenancies, and general provisions. In accordance with the programme motion, Report Stage debate will end by 18:00 at the latest. The House will then vote on any Government amendments, as well as any other amendments the Speaker selects for separate decision.

Once the votes have concluded, the House will move on to Third Reading. As set out in the programme motion, the Third Reading debate must conclude no later than 19:00, one hour after the expected end of the Report Stage debate. As divisions on amendments will take up most – if not all – of that one-hour period, the Third Reading debate is expected to be very short.

Once the Bill receives a Third Reading, it will be sent to the House of Lords to complete all its stages there.

Presentation of Public Petitions

Conservative MP Bradley Thomas will present a public petition on Bromsgrove District housing targets.

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi will present a public petition on pornography and violence against women.

Adjournment: Conservative MP Mims Davies will give a speech on the future of the surgical unit at Uckfield Community Hospital. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: The potential impact of immigration reforms on humanitarian visa routes (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Level 7 apprenticeships (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: Tackling violence against women and girls in London (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Bike theft in Loughborough

16:30: Pension investment in UK equities (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committees

09:25: The draft Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025

14:30: The draft Education (Scotland) Act 2025 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025

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Introduction of new Peer: Dame Clare Gerada, the former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will be introduced to the House as a baroness (title to be announced).

Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on democratic resilience in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Welsh devolution; transfers of pupils from private to state schools; and the implications for the economy, business and individuals of Ministerial comments suggesting forthcoming fiscal changes.

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill (Committee, day 2): This is the second and final day currently allocated for Committee Stage on the Government’s Bill to implement the UK–Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago. (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 the rights of Chagossians, the continued use of the Diego Garcia Military Base, the treatment of asylum and refugee claims from the Chagos Islands, proposals to bar British lawyers from representing Mauritius in any legal disputes, and the impact of the Act on nuclear treaties.

When the Opposition sought to table an amendment to delay Committee Stage earlier in the Bill’s proceedings, the Government reportedly offered a concession, whereby it would delay Report Stage until the New Tear. Therefore, no further proceedings on the Bill are likely to take place until January.

Grand Committee: At 15:45, Peers will debate two motions to ‘take note’ of Statutory Instruments. ‘Take note’ motions are typically tabled when Peers wish to hold a debate on an instrument, but do not intend to block it or explicitly outline their concerns in advance. The motions relate to:

• the draft Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025; and

• the draft Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

10:00: Culture, Media and Sport Committee – Pre-appointment hearing: The Committee will question the Government’s preferred candidate for Chair of the Charity Commission, Dame Julia Unwin.

10:00: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee – Housing Conditions in England: The heads of the Regulator of Social Housing and officials from several local authorities will give evidence.

10:00: Education Committee – Higher Education and Funding: Minister for Skills Baroness Smith of Malvern and the Chief Executive of the Office for Students will give evidence on the threat of insolvency said to be facing a growing number of universities.

14:00: International Development Committee – Future of Aid and Development Assistance: Civil service trade union leaders, academics and campaigners will give evidence.

14:30: Justice Committee – The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, will give evidence on her work. The Committee has indicated that topics may include the independence of the judiciary, the backlog in Crown Court sitting days, judicial capacity and conduct and the security of judges.

15:00: Business and Trade Committee – Small Business Strategy: Small Business Minister Blair McDougall MP will give evidence, alongside senior officials from National Trading Standards, Companies House, the National Crime Agency, and the Department for Business and Trade.

15:15: House of Commons Finance Committee – Finance Committee Savings Inquiry. The Director General (Operations) and the Managing Director of Finance at the House of Commons will give evidence. The House of Commons Commission has agreed a savings and improvement programme designed to achieve at least 10% of cumulative savings and efficiencies in the House’s own budget by 2028-29. The inquiry will look at issues such as “reasons for the headcount rise, and the scope to reduce costs, in line with wider efforts to reduce civil service numbers”.

15:30: Foreign Affairs Committee – Joint meeting with the Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation: Select committee chairs from the Czech Senate, Polish Parliament, Finnish Parliament, and Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:30: Justice and Home Affairs Committee – Settlement, Citizenship and Integration: British Future director Sunder Katwala and Professor Alan Manning will give evidence.

14:00: Industry and Regulators Committee – Water Regulation: Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds MP will give evidence.

14:30: Communications and Digital Committee – AI and Copyright: Legal 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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Details of Wednesday’s business can be found below.

Questions and statements: At 11:30, Scotland Office Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include nuclear power sites, the cost of living, economic growth, asylum and returns policies, skills and training, Pride in Place, inheritance tax, the Windsor Framework, and the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland.

At 12:00, Sir Keir Starmer is set to face the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, at PMQs.

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

Budget Statement and Debate: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP, will deliver the annual Budget Statement setting out the Government’s taxation plans and its assessment of the wider state of the economy. (House of Commons Library briefing / Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTbrief)

The Budget process has four key parliamentary stages: the Budget Statement itself, the Budget debate, the Budget (or ‘Ways and Means’) resolutions, and the Finance Bill. Our Hansard Society guide to how Parliament authorises the Government’s taxation plans explains the procedures that govern each of these stages.

Once the Chancellor has delivered her Budget Statement, two motions are then moved formally:

• Provisional collection of taxes: This motion gives provisional authorisation for changes in taxes and duties that take effect on Budget Day. This motion is agreed without debate.

• The first Ways and Means motion: The Finance Bill – which gives legislative effect to the tax plans announced in the Budget – is founded upon Ways and Means Resolutions, each of which gives authorisation to impose a new tax or to change the rates, scope or duration of existing taxes. Dozens of Ways and Means motions may be needed to implement a Budget, but only the first is moved at the start of the Budget debate and it is on this motion that the debate formally takes place.

Once the first Ways and Means motion is moved, the Leader of the Opposition is called to respond to the Statement. Once the Leader of the Opposition has concluded her speech, the next speakers are likely to be Treasury Committee Chair Dame Meg Hillier MP and the Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey MP, followed by other relevant select committee chairs, party spokespersons, and senior MPs.

The Government has allocated four days to the Budget debate: today, tomorrow (Thursday 27 November) and Monday and Tuesday next week (1 and 2 December). Each day of the Budget debate has a theme or themes, chosen by the Government, which may be announced in advance.

At the end of the fourth day, the question on all the Ways and Means motions will be put to the House for decision. Only the first Ways and Means motion can be amended. Any amendments must have the effect of reducing the level of taxation, because the principle of the financial initiative of the Crown precludes Parliament from seeking to impose taxes unless requested to do so by the Government.

One thing to watch out for is the form that the first Ways and Means motion takes. If the Government tables an Income Tax (Charge) motion it restricts the scope for amendments at the Committee and Report stages of the Finance Bill solely to those matters covered by the Budget resolutions concerning the annual charging of income tax. However, if it tables an Amendment of the Law motion (such as “it is expedient to amend the law with respect to the National Debt and the public revenue and to make further provision in connection with finance”), it opens the door for a broader range of amendments to be proposed, addressing matters not covered by the other Budget resolutions (although the Government may attach some limiting conditions to the motion, in relation, for example, to VAT or income tax thresholds).

Historically an Amendment of the Law motion was introduced to enable the Opposition to propose alternative tax proposals. Although the Government is not required to put forward an Amendment of the Law motion, it was a common practice until 2018 – except when a general election was imminent or had recently taken place. Since 2018, however, no Government has tabled this motion following a Budget Statement, demonstrating excessive Government control over the House of Commons. In a politically precarious situation, a government might understandably not wish to facilitate broader debate. However, with such a large majority there is little justification for the Labour Government to continue this restrictive trend.

The Hansard Society has long urged the Government to reinstate the traditional practice of moving an ‘Amendment of the Law’ motion at the start of the Budget debate. Doing so would strengthen the ability of the Opposition and Government backbenchers to scrutinise the public finances. Notably, the current Chief Whip, Jonathan Reynolds MP, who is now responsible for handling Government business and arranging the tabling of motions, previously criticised the decision not to table an Amendment of the Law motion for the Budget when he sat on the Opposition benches, saying it reduced the Finance Bill Committee to “less of a political conversation and more of a technical one”.

Adjournment: Labour MP Janet Daby will give a speech on the potential merits of upgrading Grove Park railway station. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: Availability of driving tests in the South East (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: The children of alcoholics

14:30: The 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash

16:00: The impact of home insulation on energy bills (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:30: Support for young people not in education, employment or training (House of Commons Library briefing)

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Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on emergency accommodation for victims of domestic abuse; religious charitable status; and visas for highly skilled people. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 24 November.

Sentencing Bill (Committee, day 1): This is the first of three days currently allocated for the Bill’s Committee Stage when the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should “stand part” of the Bill, and whether any amendments should be made. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Any amendments that are pushed to a vote and rejected at Committee Stage cannot be re-tabled. Consequently, divisions are uncommon at Committee Stage and any amendments are likely to be “probing amendments”, designed to test the response of the Government and the wider House.

The debate will begin with the first clauses of the Bill, which relate to: the proposed presumption of suspended sentences for sentences under 12 months; the increase in the maximum length of a suspended sentence from two to three years; new orders requiring offenders to pay a percentage of their income during a suspended sentence; and changing the statutory purposes of sentencing to emphasise the protection of victims.

Grand Committee

15:45: Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Committee, day 7): Today is the last day of Committee Stage for this Bill. The Committee had been scheduled to conclude at the sixth sitting last Monday, but it managed to debate only four of the eight remaining groups of amendments. Those four remaining groups will therefore be debated at today’s sitting in a five-hour debate. Sittings in Grand Committee typically last only four hours, but can be extended to five hours by agreement between the “Usual Channels” (the Government, Opposition and Crossbench business managers).

The final clause and groups of amendments to be debated relate to smoke-free and vape-free places; implementation of the Act by retailers; and proposals for an expert panel on vaping.

Once the Committee Stage is concluded, the Bill will move on to Report Stage. There is a convention in the House of Lords that Report Stage should not begin until at least 14 calendar days after the conclusion of Committee Stage.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:00: Committee of Privileges – Actions of the Charity Commission: The Speaker’s Counsel in the House of Commons (who advises the Speaker and other officials on legal matters relating to the business and administration of the House), the Deputy Ombudsman at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), and the interim Chair, CEO and Head of Litigation at the Charity Commission will give evidence. This session relates to PHSO reports about the Charity Commission’s handling of investigations into two charities over sexual abuse, and to the Commission’s decision to initiate legal proceedings that are said to be intended to block the reports from being laid before Parliament. In September, the House of Commons responded by making use of a rare privilege motion requiring the PHSO reports to be laid before the House, and referring the actions of the Commission to the Committee.

09:15: Work and Pensions Committee – Young people who are NEET and the transfer of responsibility for Skills policy to the DWP: Think tanks and academics will give evidence.

09:15: Transport Committee – Railways Bill: The Chief Executive of the Office of Rail and Road and representatives of the rail sector will give evidence.

09:30: Health and Social Care Committee – Delivering the Neighbourhood Health Service (Workforce): Professional bodies representing various medical professions will give evidence.

10:15: Defence Committee – AUKUS: Representatives of Team Barrow – a public-private partnership to re-develop Barrow backed by £220 million of Government funding – will give evidence, including the chair of Team Barrow, former Cabinet Secretary Lord (Simon) Case.

House of Lords

10:30: Constitution Committee – Consequential amendments: First Parliamentary Counsel Jessica de Mounteney, the Government’s chief legal drafter, 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, Culture, Media and Sport Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include access to arts and culture, funding for youth services, women’s football, tackling loneliness through sport, music recording studios, grassroots sport, the UK City of Culture competition, the resale of concert tickets, musical heritage, and the BBC Charter Review.

At 10:10, the representatives of the Church Commissioners (Marsha de Cordova MP) and House of Commons Commission (Nick Smith MP) will take questions from MPs. Eight of the 11 questions on the Order Paper are for the Church Commissioners, and only three for the House of Commons Commission.

Church Commissioners: topics include Church governance, blessings for same-sex couples, the number of vicars in rural parishes, Christians in Palestine, grants for places of worship, plans to increase the number of clergy, affordable housing, and solar power for churches.

House of Commons Commission: topics include school visits to the Palace of Westminster, a domestic abuse policy for the House of Commons, and technology to improve the productivity of MPs.

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 and answering questions about anything that Members might want debated. Any other Ministerial Statements will follow.

Continuation of the Budget Debate: MPs will continue the debate on the Chancellor’s Budget Statement. The debate on the second day of the Budget debate is conventionally opened by the Shadow Chancellor, in this case Conservative MP Mel Stride. The Budget debate will continue until 17:00.

Adjournment: Conservative MP Dr Caroline Johnson will give a speech on Government transparency and accountability. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

13:30: The impact of extended producer responsibility for packaging (House of Commons Library briefing)

15:00: Protecting children from domestic abuse (House of Commons Library briefing)

Public Bill Committees

11:30 and 14:00: Public Office (Accountability) Bill: This Bill – popularly known as the Hillsborough Law – will begin its Committee Stage today. The main provisions of the Bill were outlined in a recent edition of the Bulletin.

At Committee Stage, the Public Bill Committee must decide whether each clause and schedule should “stand part” of the Bill, and whether any amendments should be made. Before it begins its clause-by-clause scrutiny, the Committee will spend today’s sittings gathering oral evidence from witnesses. The witness list will have been agreed in advance between the Government and Opposition Whips.

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Oral questions: At 11:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on the effect of the Budget on small and medium-sized businesses; violence against women and girls; and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s code of practice on the meaning of sex in the 2010 Equality Act. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 25 November.

Crime and Policing Bill (Committee, day 4): This is the fourth of 12 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 child criminal exploitation and child sexual abuse.

Lunch break business: Consideration of the Crime and Policing Bill will be interrupted at around 13:30 for a time-limited one-hour debate – known as lunch break business – to ask the Government what assessment they have made of the humanitarian situation in Sudan. The debate will be led by the Lord Bishop of Leeds. (House of Lords Library briefing)

The debate on the Crime and Policing Bill will resume immediately after this debate.

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No Select Committees are scheduled to meet in public today.

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Neither House is scheduled to sit on Friday 28 November 2025. Both Houses will resume at 14:30 on Monday 1 December 2025. Our next Bulletin will therefore be published on Sunday 30 November.

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