Questions and statements: At 14:30, Work and Pensions Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include youth unemployment and economic inactivity, rural job opportunities, youth employment support, the benefit cap, Youth Hubs, the Youth Guarantee, the Identifying Local Vulnerability project, Universal Credit claims, social security for care leavers, child poverty, food poverty, and support for pensioners.

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.

Presentation of Bill: The Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron will introduce a Presentation Bill on water regulation. A Presentation Bill is one of three ways a backbench MP can introduce a Private Member’s Bill, alongside Ballot Bills and Ten Minute Rule Bills. Under Standing Order No. 57, an MP who has given notice may present a bill without first seeking the House’s permission. No debate or vote takes place at this stage. The bill is automatically given a First Reading, and the sponsoring MP chooses a future date for Second Reading. A full legislative text is not required at the point of introduction.

Estimates (Day 1) – Security and resilience, Northern Ireland, and criminal justice:

Estimates are the Government’s formal requests for parliamentary authority to spend public money. This week the House will consider the Main Supply Estimates, which are the formal annual spending plans for each department. Our procedural guide explains the Estimates cycle in Parliament.

The Government is seeking authorisation for £1.15 trillion of public expenditure. (House of Commons Library briefing)

MPs will debate three areas of government spending today:

• the Cabinet Office’s spending on security and resilience (House of Commons Library briefing);

• the Northern Ireland Office’s spending (House of Commons Library briefing); and

• spending by the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in relation to criminal justice (House of Commons Library briefing).

A further three departmental spending requests will be debated tomorrow.

There is not time to debate every department’s spending plan, so the Backbench Business Committee considers bids, principally from select committee chairs, to determine which Estimates will be debated across the two allotted days. The transcript of the Committee’s deliberations can be found here. The House formally endorsed the Committee’s recommendations on 22 June.

Although the debates will formally take place on motions to approve the relevant departmental Estimates, and discussion must remain within the scope of each department’s spending plans, MPs may use the opportunity to scrutinise the policies underpinning that expenditure more broadly.

MPs may table amendments to reduce an Estimate, but as set out in Standing Orders they cannot propose to increase the amount or reallocate funding for a different purpose. This reflects the constitutional principle that only the Crown (the Government) may initiate expenditure. This dates to an Order of the House of Commons on 11 June 1713 which gave the Government the sole power of financial initiative in Parliament. It was partly designed to limit ‘pork barrel’ politics by MPs seeking funds for local constituency expenditure with little or no regard for the nation’s finances.

Today’s debate will conclude by 22:00 but votes on the Estimates will be deferred until the end of Tuesday’s debate. An explanation of how those votes will be conducted, and how they relate to the subsequent Supply and Appropriations (Main Estimates) Bill, is set out under Tuesday’s Commons business below.

Select committee motions: The House will be asked to approve motions to change some of the members of two select committees.

Adjournment: Labour MP Jessica Toale will give a speech on the intergenerational impacts of diethylstilbesterol on mothers and children. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

16:30: MPs will debate e-petition 759783, which calls for a public animal abuser register and an automatic lifetime ban on ownership for anyone conflicted of animal neglect or abuse. The petition has around 239,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

18:00: MPs will debate e-petition 742179, which calls on the Government to lower the age for mammograms and provide funding to carry out mammograms annually instead of every three years. The petition has around 106,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committee

18:00: The draft Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on public service contracts with Palantir; Covid-related fraud; UK food security; and skills shortages in the construction sector.

Motions to approve draft regulations: Ministers will ask the House to approve three draft Statutory Instruments that have previously been debated in Grand Committee:

• Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026;

• Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Control of Disposals etc.) (Amendment) Order 2026; and

• Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill (Committee, day 1 of 2): Peers will begin detailed scrutiny in Committee of the Whole House of the Government’s legislation to enable Ministers to bring steel undertakings into public ownership. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill and whether any amendments or new provisions should be added. Amendments are grouped for debate to avoid repetition. Divisions do not typically take place at Committee Stage, since any amendment moved in Committee and defeated cannot be moved again at Report Stage, where amendments are more likely to succeed.

The Bill does not itself nationalise British Steel or any other steel company. Instead, it would empower the Secretary of State, by regulations, to transfer shares and property belonging to a steel undertaking into public ownership. Other provisions deal with compensation, financial assistance and the repeal of existing steel legislation.

A key issue for scrutiny is that the core transfer powers would be subject to the “made negative” procedure. Regulations made using this procedure can be signed into law before they are laid before Parliament and remain law unless either House subsequently annuls them. No debate or approval vote is required. The Government argues that this approach is necessary to provide commercial certainty where immediate legal effect is needed.

Amendments to the Bill have been tabled to replace the “made negative” procedure with the “draft affirmative” procedure. If the amendments were agreed, the Regulations could not come into force until they had been laid before, and approved, by Parliament, removing the possibility of them taking effect immediately.

The House of Lords Constitution Committee has also raised several constitutional concerns about the Bill:

• While a sunset clause means that the principal transfer powers expire after two years, Ministers could extend that period indefinitely through regulations. The Committee argues that this power undermines the purpose of a sunset provision.

• Ministers would be given the power to determine in regulations how disputes are resolved, including via a court or tribunal. The Committee argues that this power is too broad and that dispute resolution arrangements should be set out more fully in the Bill itself.

• Ministers would be empowered to modify tax law, with potential retrospective effect. While the Committee believes the retrospective element is justified, the power is an almost unlimited Henry VIII power (a power that allows Ministers to amend, repeal, or otherwise alter the effect of primary legislation by delegated legislation), and recommends that it be replaced with a targeted power specifying the circumstances in which tax law may be modified.

• The Bill grants Ministers a general power to modify or disapply existing legislation where they consider it necessary to enable the transfer powers to operate effectively. The Committee recommends that this broad power either be removed or significantly tightened.

• Ministers would be able to determine the appeals process for compensation decisions through the exercise of delegated powers. The Committee argues that this should instead be specified on the face of the Bill.

Today’s scrutiny is expected to concentrate on the Bill’s early provisions, including the scope of the transfer powers. The second and final Committee sitting is scheduled for Wednesday.

Statutory Instrument – International aviation and shipping emissions: At around 19:30, the steel industry bill debate will be interrupted for a one-hour mid-evening debate – known as dinner break business – on a motion to approve the draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026. These Regulations would bring greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and international shipping within the carbon budget framework established by the Climate Change Act 2008.

The Regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure and therefore cannot become law until both Houses debate and approve them. Lord Moynihan has tabled a regret motion, which allows the House to express criticism of the Regulations without preventing them from becoming law. Lord Moynihan’s motion expresses concern that the Regulations will place “exceptional additional costs on industries already under severe pressure”. The regret motion and the approval motion will be debated together, with any vote on the regret motion taking place before the vote on the approval motion which it seeks to amend.

Grand Committee

Financial Services and Markets Bill (Committee, day 3 of 6): From 15:45, Peers will continue their detailed scrutiny in Grand Committee of the Government’s legislation to reform the regulation of financial services and markets. More information can be found in a recent edition of the Bulletin and in the House of Lords Library briefing on the Bill.

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill and whether any amendments or new provisions should be added. Amendments are grouped for debate to avoid repetition. Where Committee Stage takes place in Grand Committee, no divisions can be held, and an amendment may be agreed only if there is no objection. Peers may nevertheless use probing amendments to test the Government’s position before deciding whether to return to an issue at Report Stage.

Six Committee sittings have been scheduled, with scrutiny expected to conclude on 8 July. Resuming from the point reached at the second sitting, the Committee will today consider the Bill’s provisions relating to the functions, objectives, and reporting requirements of the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority.

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House of Commons

13:15: Foreign Affairs Committee – Jerusalem Holy Places: The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, the Archbishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Knesset will give evidence.

15:30: Public Accounts Committee – Regulation of water, energy, and broadband: Martin Lewis, the consumer rights advocate and founder of MoneySavingExpert, will give evidence alongside representatives from Citizens Advice and the Consumer Council for Water. At 16:30 the chief executives of Ofcom, Ofgem, and Ofwat will be questioned.

16:00: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee – Economic growth in Northern Ireland: Small Business and Economic Transformation Minister Blair McDougall MP and junior Northern Ireland Office Minister Matthew Patrick MP will give evidence.

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Questions and statements: At 11:30, Justice Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include magistrates’ recruitment, SLAPPs, changes to jury trials, transgender prisoners, prisoners released in error, support for women and children who have experienced abuse, the family justice system, custodial sentences for knife crime, and free court transcripts.

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

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Liberal Democrat MP John Milne will seek to introduce a Child Savings Accounts (Mental Capacity and Disability) 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 for access to matured child savings accounts held in the name of a young person who lacks capacity and require the Secretary of State to review savings provision for young people with disabilities. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

This is the first Ten Minute Rule Bill of the Session because Standing Order No. 14 prevents backbench MPs from giving notice of a Ten Minute Rule motion until after the fifth Wednesday on which the House sits. That fifth Wednesday is reserved for the presentation of bills by MPs successful in the Private Members’ Bill (PMB) ballot. The restriction ensures that Ballot Bills take priority over other types of PMB on the limited number of sitting Fridays available for PMB business. With that restriction now expired, the first available Ten Minute Rule slots have been allocated for today.

Estimates (Day 2) – Sport and youth services, pharmaceutical procurement, and DWP priorities and performance: MPs will debate three further areas of government spending selected by the Backbench Business Committee:

• the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s spending on sport and youth services (House of Commons Library briefing);

• the Department of Health and Social Care’s spending on pharmaceutical procurement (House of Commons Library briefing); and

• the Department for Work and Pensions’ spending priorities and performance (House of Commons Library briefing).

For information about Main Estimates debates see Monday’s Commons business above.

By 19:00 at the latest, the House will vote on the three departmental Estimates debated yesterday and the three debated today. MPs will then vote on all the remaining departmental Estimates that have not been debated individually, through a single ‘roll up’ motion. Once agreed, these resolutions will form the basis for the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill, which provides the statutory authority for the expenditure. The Bill is scheduled for consideration on Wednesday.

Adjournment: Labour MP Apsana Begum will give a speech on domestic abuse and public life. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: Government support for regenerating local high streets and removing unlawful storefronts (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Contribution of nationally significant energy infrastructure projects to communities

14:30: Antisemitism on university campuses (House of Lords Library briefing)

16:00: Future of high streets

16:30: Financial inclusion for young people

Public Bill Committee

09:25 and 14:00: Health Bill (Committee, day 5): The MPs appointed to scrutinise the Government’s new legislation to reform the governance of the National Health Service (NHS) will continue their formal clause-by-clause scrutiny. More information on the Bill can be found in an earlier edition of the Bulletin and in the House of Commons Library briefing.

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill, and whether any amendments should be made or new clauses and schedules added.

Today’s debate will resume at the point reached when the Committee last adjourned. The next clauses to be debated include integrated care partnerships and strategies, neighbourhood health plans, accounting and audit of NHS trust accounts, and the functions of Special Health Authorities.

Delegated Legislation Committees

14:30: The draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026

14:30: The draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

16:30: The draft Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (Directions to OFCOM) (Revocation) Order 2026

16:30: The draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on private pension access for people with a terminal illness; women’s representation in peace processes; reforming university student finance; and the resilience of NHS infrastructure to extreme heat.

National Security (State Threats) Bill (Committee, Report, and Third Reading): This legislation would enable the Home Secretary to designate organisations believed to be involved in foreign power threat activity where designation is considered necessary to protect the UK’s safety or interests. Modelled on the proscription of terrorist organisations, it would create offences relating to support for, assistance to, or receipt of material benefits from a designated body. (House of Lords Library briefing)

The Bill is being fast-tracked because Ministers want the new powers available as soon as practicable. It completed all its Commons stages in a single sitting on 17 June and received its Second Reading in the Lords on 23 June. Last week the House agreed a motion to dispense with certain Standing Orders, to enable Committee, Report, and Third Reading to take place at today’s sitting. Compressing the bill’s remaining stages into one day significantly reduces the usual opportunities to test the Government’s position and secure concessions.

The House of Lords Constitution Committee has recommended that the House consider certain provisions in more detail, particularly in relation to criminal defences.

At Committee Stage, the House considers each clause and schedule of the Bill in turn, deciding whether they should ‘stand part’ of the Bill and whether amendments or new provisions should be added. While divisions do not normally occur at Committee Stage in the House of Lords, they are more likely when Committee and Report Stage take place on the same day.

Once Committee Stage is concluded, the Bill will proceed immediately to Report Stage. Although Report normally provides a further opportunity to table and consider amendments, its value as a distinct scrutiny stage is limited in these circumstances. The Bill will then proceed to Third Reading, at which point the House will decide whether to pass the Bill in its final form.

If the Lords makes any amendments, the Bill must return to the Commons for those amendments to be considered before it can receive Royal Assent. If the Bill passes the Lords without amendment, it will be ready for Royal Assent.

Statutory Instrument debate – Planning committees: The House will debate a motion to approve the draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026. These draft Regulations establish a national scheme of delegation, specifying which planning decisions in England must be taken by local authority officers and which may be referred to a planning committee.

Since the Regulations are subject to the draft affirmative procedure, Ministers can only sign them into law after they have been debated and approved by both Houses.

The use of the affirmative procedure reflects a scrutiny issue raised by the Hansard Society during the passage of the Bill that became the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025. The Bill Act originally proposed that regulations establishing the national scheme of delegation should be subject only to the negative procedure. In a blog analysing the Bill’s delegated powers, the Society argued that the scheme would involve significant policy choices about the balance between decisions taken by elected councillors and local authority officers, and that Parliament should therefore be required to debate and approve the regulations before they became law. The legislation was subsequently amended so that the first regulations establishing the national scheme of delegation are subject to the affirmative procedure.

Conservative Peer Lord Jamieson has tabled a regret motion expressing concern that the Regulations would reduce local democratic oversight of planning decisions and place further pressure on council officers. A regret motion does not prevent an instrument from becoming law, but allows the House to place its concerns on the record.

The approval and regret motions will be debated together for up to one hour but a vote on the regret motion will be held first, followed by the vote on the approval motion.

Grand Committee

Statutory Instrument debates: From 11:00, Peers will debate four draft Statutory Instruments:

• the Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) (Amendment) Regulations 2026;

• the Private Landlord Redress Scheme (Approval and Designation) Regulations 2026;

• the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Anti-social Behaviour and Prevention and Investigation Measures) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2026; and

• the West Midlands Combined Authority (Key Route Network) (Amendment) Order 2026.

The Committee will then adjourn before resuming in the afternoon.

International Claims Commission debate: From 15:45, Peers will debate the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. The Convention is an international agreement, to which the UK is a signatory, establishing a commission to assess claims for compensation arising from loss or injury caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (House of Lords Library briefing)

While the UK is already a signatory to the Convention, under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 the Convention cannot be ratified (that is, it cannot be brought into force) until it has been laid before Parliament for 21 sitting days and neither House has resolved that it should not be ratified. The Convention was laid before Parliament on 13 April 2026. Its 21-day scrutiny period expired on 8 June, but the Government granted a 10-sitting-day extension, until 24 June, to allow the International Agreements Committee (IAC) to take evidence.

In its report on the Convention, published before the end of the extended scrutiny period, the IAC drew the Convention to the special attention of the House and recommended that it be debated, citing the “strong political interest in holding Russian to account for its unlawful acts”. Although the Committee identified certain limitations in the Convention, it nevertheless endorsed its “underlying rationale”.

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House of Commons

10:00: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee – Inquiry into the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry (Stage 1): Infected Blood Inquiry chair Sir Brian Langstaff and the Counsel to the Inquiry will give evidence.

10:15: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee – Modernising elections: Philip Rycroft, author of the independent review into foreign financial influence in UK politics, will give evidence first. At 11:00 the Committee will hear from former Liberal Democrat MP Duncan Hames, now Senior Director of Policy at Transparency International UK, Dr Susan Hawley, who is Executive Director of Spotlight on Corruption, and Dr Sam Power of the University of Bristol.

13:05: International Development Committee – The UK’s international climate finance: Development Minister Baroness Chapman of Darlington and officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will give evidence.

14:30: Justice Committee – The Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, will give evidence on the work of the Crown Prosecution Service.

14:30: Business and Trade Committee – China and the UK economy: Trade Minister Chris Bryant MP and officials from the Department for Business and Trade will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:30: Justice and Home Affairs Committee – Fire safety in prisons: the Joint Chief Inspectors at the Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate will give evidence, followed at 11:30 by Prisons Minister Lord Timpson and James McEwen, CEO of the Prison and Probation Service.

11:15: Science and Technology Committee – Personalised medicine and AI: The CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will give evidence.

14:00: International Agreements Committee – UK–Poland Defence and Security Partnership: Europe Minister Stephen Doughty MP and senior officials from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will answer Peers’ questions.

14:30: Communications and Digital Committee – AI and copyright: Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall MP and Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy MP will give evidence.

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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 updating the crisis response protocol measures, children’s online safety, removal of dangerous content from social media platforms, funding for astronomy and space science, diversity in the technology sector, locally led innovation investment, responses to the ‘Growing up in the online world’ consultation, steps being taken to ensure the UK has sovereign AI capacity, and support for Venture Capital Trust-backed technology businesses.

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: Liberal Democrat MP Ben Maguire will seek to introduce a Medical Services (Rural Areas) 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 require the Secretary of State to prepare a strategy for expanding the provision of Minor Injuries Units and Urgent Treatment Centres in rural areas.

Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill (All Stages): Assuming that the Main Estimates are approved on Tuesday evening (see above) then the Government will present this Supply Bill to give statutory effect to the Government’s departmental annual spending plans.

The votes on the Estimates resulted in Supply resolutions, confirming the Commons’ approval of both the amounts requested and the purposes for which the money may be spent. However, those resolutions do not themselves provide legal authority for the Government to spend the money. That authority must be conferred by an Act of Parliament.

The Bill therefore authorises the Treasury to issue the sums approved by the supply resolutions from the Consolidated Fund and authorises Government departments to use the resources allocated to them in the Estimates. The funds may be used only for the specific purposes authorised by Parliament. The Consolidated Fund is the public bank account created in 1787 at the Bank of England for the purpose of having a single fund into which all public revenues would be paid, and from which all payments for public services would be made.

As the House will have already agreed the Supply resolutions, this Bill will not be subject to debate or amendment at any stage, There is no Committee stage, and thus also no Report stage, and under Standing Order No. 56 the questions on Second and Third Reading will be put ‘forthwith’ – that is immediately, without debate.

The Bill will be certified as a Money Bill by the Speaker and will be sent to the House of Lords where it will be passed, unamended, in accordance with the Parliament Act 1911. (Our Hansard Society guide to the Parliament Act explains the process.)

Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill (All Stages): MPs will consider all stages of the Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill in a single sitting. The Bill will give statutory effect to three tax measures that the House approved in principle through Ways and Means resolutions on 24 June. The Ways and Means resolutions had to be agreed before the Bill could be introduced because, as Erskine May explains, “any bill the main object of which is to impose a charge upon the people must be founded upon resolutions”. (House of Commons Library)

The three tax changes in the Bill are:

• an increase in the rate of the Electricity Generator Levy from 45% to 55%;

• an increase in the tax-free mileage allowance from 45p to 55p per mile, backdated to the beginning of the 2026–27 tax year; and

• a temporary reduced Vehicle Excise Duty rate of £1 for specified heavy goods vehicles for licences taken out between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027.

The changes to the mileage allowance and Vehicle Excise Duty were given provisional statutory effect when the House agreed the Ways and Means resolutions, allowing them to take effect before the Bill receives Royal Assent. The Bill is now required to place those measures on a permanent statutory footing, alongside the increase in the Electricity Generator Levy.

Before proceedings begin, MPs will consider a Business of the House motion setting the timetable for the Bill’s passage. The Bill is expected to complete all its Commons stages at today’s sitting, reflecting the fact that the House has already approved the tax changes in principle through the Ways and Means resolutions. As the Business of the House motion has not yet been published, the timetable for each stage has yet to be confirmed.

Following the Second Reading debate on the Bill’s general principles it will be considered in Committee of the Whole House, where all MPs may decide whether each clause should ‘stand part’ of the Bill and whether any amendments should be made. Amendments may not increase the rate or incidence of the taxes provided for in the Bill. Amendments proposing tax reliefs must also remain within scope of the Ways and Means resolutions. The scope for amendment will therefore be very narrow.

Once the Bill is given a Third Reading, the Bill will be certified as a Money Bill by the Speaker before it is sent to the House of Lords.

Adjournment: Labour MP Sarah Champion will give a speech on the impact of extended producer responsibility on packaging manufacturers. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: Potential merits of a prohibition of second jobs for MPs

11:00: Government support for regeneration in Reddish

14:30: HMRC guidance and remuneration of coastguard volunteers (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Adequacy of early years funding in Hampshire (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:30: Government support for the fishing industry

Delegated Legislation Committees

14:30: The draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Anti-social Behaviour and Prevention and Investigation Measures) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2026

14:30: The draft Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

16:30: The draft Government of Wales Act 2006 (Increase of Capital Borrowing Limits) Order 2026

16:30: The draft Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2026

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Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on the use of technology to reduce drink-driving; the impact of local pharmacy closures; and the use of AI and live facial recognition for counterterrorism purposes. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 29 June.

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill (Committee, day 2 of 2): Peers will conclude detailed scrutiny in Committee of the Whole House of the Government’s legislation to enable Ministers to bring steel undertakings into public ownership. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill and whether any amendments or new provisions should be added. Amendments are grouped for debate to avoid repetition. Divisions do not typically take place at Committee Stage, since any amendment moved in Committee and defeated cannot be moved again at Report Stage, where amendments are more likely to succeed.

Subject to the progress made during Monday’s sitting, today’s debate is expected to focus on the Bill’s later provisions. These include the obligations that would apply following a transfer; powers relating to pensions, taxation, and the modification of existing law; the arrangements for calculating and paying compensation; and the Secretary of State’s powers to provide ongoing financial assistance to the steel industry.

Grand Committee

Financial Services and Markets Bill (Committee, day 4 of 6): From 16:15, Peers will continue detailed scrutiny of the Government’s legislation to reform the regulation of financial services and markets. More information can be found in a recent edition of the Bulletin and in the House of Lords Library briefing on the Bill.

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill and whether any amendments or new provisions should be added. Amendments are grouped for debate to avoid repetition. Where Committee Stage takes place in Grand Committee, no divisions can be held, and an amendment may be agreed only if there is no objection. Peers may nevertheless use probing amendments to test the Government’s position before deciding whether to return to an issue at Report Stage.

Six Committee sittings have been scheduled, with scrutiny expected to conclude on 8 July. The topics to be discussed at today’s sitting will depend upon progress made at Monday’s sitting.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:30: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee – Reconciliation: Representatives of various community relations and peace organisations will give evidence.

13:45: Energy Security and Net Zero Committee – Managing the future of UK oil and gas: Experts and representatives of industry will give evidence.

14:30: Environmental Audit Committee – Risks and opportunities to the sustainability of data centres in the UK: Experts, academics and industry representatives will give evidence.

16:10: Women and Equalities Committee – Female genital mutilation: Minister for Women’s Health Baroness Merron will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:45: Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee – Article 2 of the Protocol/Windsor Framework: The Chief Commissioner at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission will give evidence.

11:00: Public Services Committee – Falling primary school rolls: Schools Minister Georgia Gould MP will give evidence.

Joint

14:15: Joint Committee on Human Rights – Security, safety and protest: Representatives of the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside Police, and the National Police Chiefs’ Council will give evidence.

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Questions and statements: At 09:30, Business and Trade Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include Royal Mail delivery times, implementation of the Employment Rights Act 2025, the security of UK supply chains, support for distillers, the impact of free trade agreements on family businesses, support for the advanced manufacturing sector, economic co-operation with the EU on businesses, the introduction of an overnight visitor levy on hospitality businesses, trade with Europe, and jobs for young people.

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 Ministerial Statements will follow.

National Audit Office appointment: A motion in the name of the Prime Minister would appoint Michael Jary to be Chair of the National Audit Office from 10 January 2027, by way of a “humble Address” to the King, in accordance with the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011.

Backbench debate – Commonhold and leasehold reform and property managing agents: MPs will debate a motion relating to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee’s recent report on the Government’s draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. (House of Commons Library briefing)

The draft Bill would introduce a new legal framework for commonhold, impose a restriction on new leasehold flats, create a new process for converting leasehold properties to commonhold, and cap ground rents in existing leases at £250 for 40 years after which they would reduce to a peppercorn. The Government published the draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny earlier this year. Pre-legislative scrutiny allows a select committee to examine and reports on a draft bill before it is formally introduced to Parliament. The practice has become increasingly rare: indeed, this was the only bill in the previous parliamentary session to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny.

In its report, the Committee concluded that the draft Bill would “make a significant step towards giving leasehold homeowners greater control” but argued that the final Bill “requires several changes and additions to meet leaseholders’ expectations and previous government pledges”. Among its recommendations was the creation an independent body with enforcement powers to regulate property managing agents.

Today’s debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee following an application from the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Labour MP Florence Eshalomi. In her application, she argued that the debate would allow the House to express its views on the Committee’s recommendations before the Government introduces the Bill. The motion to be debated welcomes the Committee’s report, notes the Government’s plans to bring forward legislation on leasehold reform, and calls on Ministers to implement the Committee’s recommendation to establish an independent body with powers to regulate property managing agents.

Unlike most Backbench Business Committee debates, this debate will take place on a substantive rather than a neutral motion, so a division may take place at the end. Although any resolution agreed would neither change the law nor require Ministers to amend the forthcoming Bill, it would carry political weight as a formal decision of the House.

Backbench debate – Access to further education: MPs will then hold a general debate on access to further education. This debate will take place on the neutral motion “That this House has considered access to further education”. A neutral motion enables MPs to raise concerns and question the Government but does not ask the House to endorse a particular policy or formally call for any specific action. (House of Commons Library briefing)

The debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee following an application from the Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin. In her application she highlighted the barriers faced by young people in deprived areas where access to further education is limited by a lack of local provision.

Adjournment: Reform UK MP Richard Tice will give a speech on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office contracts awarded to Siren Associates Ltd. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

13:30: Reducing levels of premature deaths from heart disease and stroke (House of Commons Library briefing)

15:00: Government plans to tackle air pollution (House of Commons Library briefing)

Public Bill Committee

11:30 and 14:00: Health Bill (Committee, day 6): MPs appointed to scrutinise the Government’s new legislation to reform the governance of the National Health Service (NHS) will continue their formal clause by clause scrutiny. More information on the Bill can be found in an earlier edition of the Bulletin and in the House of Commons Library briefing.

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill, and whether any amendments should be made or new clauses and schedules added.

Today’s debate will resume at the point reached when the Committee adjourned on Tuesday.

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Oral questions: At 11:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on meeting families of prisoners serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection or Detention for Public Protection sentence; maintaining real-terms per-pupil funding for 16–19-year-olds; and reducing waiting times in the Employment Tribunal system. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 30 June.

General debate – Political finance and the Electoral Commission: Typically, every Thursday from the beginning of each session until the end of January, time is set aside for general debates in the name of opposition frontbenchers, backbenchers or Crossbenchers. The allocation of these debates is decided via the Usual Channels – the business managers from the Government and other parliamentary groups in the House. Two such debates are scheduled to take place today, either side of a Question for Short Debate.

The first general debate, led by the Convenor of the Crossbench Peers, the Earl of Kinnoull, is on the regulatory regime for political party finance and the role of the Electoral Commission. The debate will take place on a neutral motion to “take note” of the issue and will therefore conclude without a formal vote (division). (House of Lords Library briefing)

Short debate – Live music: Every Thursday from the start of a session until the end of January, a topical Question for Short Debate (QSD) is scheduled between two general debates. The topic is selected by ballot, and only backbench and Crossbench members are eligible to enter. These debates are strictly time-limited to one hour. Proceedings begin with a speech from the member who tabled the question, followed by a response from the Minister. The remaining time is divided equally among the other members who wish to speak.

Today’s QSD, tabled by Labour Peer Lord Brennan of Canton, asks what assessment the Government has made of the contribution of live music to the UK’s culture and economy.

General debate – Higher education: The second general debate, led by Crossbench Peer Baroness Deech, is on the future affordability and quality of higher education. This debate will also take place on a neutral motion with no division. (House of Lords Library briefing)

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

10:00: Public Accounts Committee – Financial sustainability of the British Council: The Permanent Secretary and other senior officials at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:35: Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Committee – Domestic Abuse Act 2021: Domestic Abuse Commissioner Dame Nicole Jacobs will give evidence.

10:50: Numeracy for Life Committee – Numeracy for life: Former Prime Minister and Richmond Project founder Rishi Sunak MP 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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The House will not be sitting.

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Private Members’ Bills (PMBs): At the beginning of each session, a ballot determines the order in which the first 25 Lords PMBs are introduced. The Government Whips’ Office then allocates Second Readings and subsequent proceedings, usually on sitting Fridays.

Peers will hold Second Reading debates today on the first three Lords PMBs to be drawn in this session’s ballot:

• Lobbying Transparency (In-house Lobbyists) Bill: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town’s Bill would extend the statutory lobbying-registration regime to cover people lobbying Ministers and senior officials on behalf of their own employers, rather than only consultant lobbyists acting for clients. (House of Lords Library briefing)

• Nature’s Rights Bill: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle’s Bill would recognise nature as a legal subject with enforceable rights to protection and restoration. It would create duties on public authorities, businesses, and individuals, and would establish new bodies, including a Nature Guardianship Council and a Nature’s Rights Tribunal. (House of Lords Library briefing)

• Local Plans (Burial Space) Bill: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley’s Bill would require local planning authorities to make provision for guaranteed burial space when preparing their local plans. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Second Reading, Peers will debate the general principles of each Bill and decide whether it should proceed further. Lords PMBs often receive a Second Reading even where the Government does not support the proposed legislation.

Few Lords PMBs ultimately become law. Although securing debating time in the Lords is relatively straightforward, once a Lords PMB reaches the Commons it has no priority on the limited number of Fridays allocated to PMBs and typically falls to the back of the queue.

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Both Houses will resume at 14:30 on Monday 6 July 2026. Our next Bulletin will therefore be published on Sunday 5 July.

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