Questions and statements: At 14:30, the Home Secretary and other Home Office Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include changes to Immigration Rules, policing of protests, asylum accommodation, identity fraud, indefinite leave to remain, use of AI by police, extremism, threats to election candidates, Al Fayed workplace allegations, illegal migration, safe and legal routes, and violence against women and girls.

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. Two Written Statements will be published today, each of which may also warrant an oral statement as well: Ed Miliband (Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero) will publish the draft National Policy Statement for Fusion and Energy Generation EN-8 while Steve Reed (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government) will make a statement titled “Encouraging participation in our democracy”.

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill (Committee day 1): The House will continue its scrutiny of the Government’s Bill to enable Ministers to bring steel undertakings into public ownership. In accordance with the programme order agreed after Second Reading, the Bill will have its Committee Stage across two days in Committee of the Whole House. The second day of scrutiny will take place tomorrow. (House of Commons Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, MPs consider whether each clause should “stand part” of the Bill and whether any amendments should be made. In Committee of the Whole House, debate takes place in the Chamber and any MP may participate, in contrast to a Public Bill Committee, where only a small number of selected MPs may participate.

The programme motion specifies that Committee Stage consideration will be divided up between the two days as follows:

• Day 1: Part 1 of the Bill, and amendments, new clauses and schedules relating to Part 1 which includes the core powers granted to Ministers to transfer shares and property from a steel undertaking into public ownership.

• Day 2: Parts 2 to 4 of the Bill, and amendments, new clauses and schedules relating to Parts 2 to 4. These Parts relate to compensation, funding, and the repeal of existing steel legislation.

Committee Stage may offer MPs an opportunity to deal with some of the scrutiny concerns that the Hansard Society highlighted last month. Amendments from Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney would upgrade the scrutiny procedure for the core transfer powers from the negative to the draft affirmative procedure. However, this procedure would prevent regulations coming into force prior to being laid before Parliament, which the Government regards as necessary for legal and commercial certainty. A compromise would be to make the power subject to the made affirmative procedure where appropriate, allowing regulations to come into force immediately, with scrutiny debates and approval votes in both Houses then undertaken retrospectively.

At the end of today’s debate – which may continue until 22:00 at the latest – the House will vote on any Government amendments and any amendments selected for separate decision by the Speaker, most likely including some of the amendments proposed by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats (see the latest Amendment Paper here). The House will also vote on whether each of the clauses and schedules in Part 1 should be included in the Bill.

The programme motion specifies that Third Reading will take place on the second day – that is, tomorrow.

Delegated legislation: MPs will be asked to approve the Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, made by the Foreign Secretary on 20 April and in force since 22 April but which require approval by each House to remain in force for more than 28 days (excluding periods when Parliament is not sitting), under the “made affirmative” procedure. The Regulations were considered by a Delegated Legislation Committee last Tuesday so are not subject to debate today.

Business of the House (Private Members’ Bills) Motion: MPs will be asked to approve a motion setting out the thirteen Friday sitting days to be allocated this session for consideration of Private Members’ Bills. The proposed dates are 4 September, 11 September, 16 October, 13 November, 27 November, 4 December 2026, 15 January, 29 January, 5 February, 26 February, 5 March, 12 March and 19 March 2027. As a result, if an MP chooses to take up Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill in this new session, the earliest opportunity for MPs to consider it again would be in September.

Delegated legislation: MPs will be asked to approve four draft Statutory Instruments:

• Energy Prices Act 2022 (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026;

• Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026;

• Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026; and

• Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026.

Adjournment: Labour MP Connor Rand will give a speech on Government regulation of maternity nurses, nannies and the infant sleep industry. A Minister will then give a response. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Westminster Hall

16:30: MPs will debate e-petition 752673, which calls on the Government to ensure that bills which are approved by the House of Commons complete all their stages in Parliament. The petition explicitly references the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which was approved by the House of Commons but did not complete its passage through the House of Lords in the last session. The petition has around 114,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committees

18:00: The draft REACH (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026

18:00: The draft combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on in-person benefits assessments; affordable housing for young people; Royal Mail delivery performance; and school admissions for children eligible for free school meals and children with special educational needs.

Appointments: The Senior Deputy Speaker, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, will move a series of motions en bloc providing for three former elected-hereditary peers to be appointed to various positions despite losing their hereditary membership with the coming into force of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 at the end of the last session. Each of them has since received a life peerage, enabling them to resume their membership of the House in their new capacity, though they will continue to be known by their existing titles:

• Lord Strathclyde (Thomas Galbraith, the 2nd Baron Strathclyde, now also Baron Strathclyde of Barskimming for life), to be Chair of the Constitution Committee and a member of the Retirement and Participation Committee;

• the Duke of Wellington (Charles Wellesley, the 9th Duke of Wellington, now also Baron Wellington of Stratfield Saye for life), to be a member of the European Affairs Committee; and

• Viscount Stansgate (Stephen Benn, the 3rd Viscount Stansgate as the eldest son and heir of peerage-disclaimer Tony Benn, now also Baron Stansgate of Holland Park for life), to be a member of the Numeracy for Life Committee and a member of the Board of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).

Financial Services and Markets Bill (Second Reading): Peers will debate the Government’s legislation to reform the regulation of financial services and markets. (House of Lords Library briefing)

The Bill would modernise consumer protection and redress arrangements, including reforms to the Financial Ombudsman Service. It would also consolidate responsibility for payment systems regulation within the Financial Conduct Authority, eliminate certain regulatory requirements under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, and make it easier for credit unions to expand their activities. In addition, the Bill would update the statutory framework underpinning the ring-fencing regime, strengthen oversight of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing supervision, and give the Treasury powers to take action to support the continued provision of in-person banking services.

At Second Reading, Peers debate the general principles of a bill rather than its detailed wording. They cannot amend the text at this stage. The House of Lords does not typically hold a division (a formal vote) on Government bills at Second Reading.

Once the Bill receives a Second Reading, it will proceed to Committee Stage in Grand Committee. The Government has indicated that it expects Committee Stage to last six days, with the sittings provisionally scheduled between Monday 22 June and Wednesday 8 July.

Grand Committee

From 15:45, the House will debate two select committee reports:

• from the Public Services Committee, Reforming the Child Maintenance Service, published in October 2025, and to which the Government has responded (House of Lords Library briefing); and

• from the Industry and Regulators Committee, The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator, published in December 2025, together with the Government’s response (House of Lords Library briefing).

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

13:00: Public Accounts Committee – Sizewell C: Is it value for money to build a new nuclear power station? The Permanent Secretary and other senior officials at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and officials from Sizewell C 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, the new Health Secretary James Murray and other Health Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include cross-border healthcare, access to primary care, health inequalities, suicide prevention, mental health facilities, community care, healthcare for care leavers, men’s health services, Healthwatch, unreported removals from waiting lists, NHS health visitors, dental recruitment, and GP appointments.

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

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill (Committee day 2 and Third Reading): The House will continue its scrutiny of the Government’s legislation to enable Ministers to bring steel undertakings into public ownership. (House of Commons Library)

In accordance with the programme order, today’s debate will focus on Parts 2 to 4 of the Bill, which relate to compensation, funding, and legislative repeals.

At Committee Stage, MPs consider whether each clause should “stand part” of the Bill and whether any amendments should be made. In Committee of the Whole House, debate takes place in the Chamber and any MP may participate, in contrast to a Public Bill Committee, where only a small number of selected MPs may participate.

At the end of the Committee Stage debate – which may continue until 18:00 at the latest – the House will vote on any Government amendments and any amendments selected for separate decision by the Speaker, most likely including some of the amendments proposed by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats (see the latest Amendment Paper here). The House will also vote on whether each of the clauses and schedules in Parts 2 to 4 should be included in the Bill.

Normally, Report Stage would follow immediately after Committee Stage of a Bill. However, where the House considers a Bill in Committee of the Whole House and makes no amendments, then Report Stage is not required. Since the Government has not proposed any amendments, the Bill is likely to progress straight to Third Reading.

At Third Reading, the House decides whether to approve the final version of the Bill.

The programme motion specifies that Third Reading will conclude by 19:00 at the latest. Since most of the time after 18:00 will be taken up by Committee Stage votes, the Third Reading debate is likely to be very short. Once the Bill receives a Third Reading it will be sent to the House of Lords for further consideration.

Adjournment: Liberal Democrat MP Manuela Perteghella will give a speech on road safety in the West Midlands. A Minister will then give a response. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Westminster Hall

09:30: Water safety (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Energy costs (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: Government support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland training college (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Potential merits of Government support for a permanent national monument for Sir David Attenborough

16:30: Illicit Finance Summit 2026

Delegated Legislation Committees

09:25: The draft Marine Licensing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment etc.) Order 2026

14:30: The draft Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2026

14:30: The draft Contracts for Difference (Allocation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on support for the British Council; the use of electric bikes and scooters on roads; the impact on further education colleges of their inability to recover VAT; and what further steps are being taken to retrieve information in relation to matters covered by the Humble Address relating to the appointment of Lord Mandelson as Ambassador to Washington.

Malvern Hills Bill (Revival): The House will be asked to agree a motion to ‘revive’ this private bill to reform the governance structure of the Malvern Hills Trust and expand its powers in relation to land management and access. Private bills affect the private interests of a specific group of individuals or organisations, rather than the public at large.

The Malvern Hills Trust, as promoter of the Bill, introduced it into the House of Lords in the last session. The Bill would reconstitute the Trust’s Board, reducing the number of trustees from 29 to 12, and allow half of the trustees to be appointed by the Trust rather than elected.

The Lords select committee appointed to consider the Bill amended it to require eight, rather than six, of the 12 trustees to be elected and to strengthen the consultation requirements. However, the select committee did not report the Bill back to the House until April, leaving insufficient time for it to complete its passage by the end of the session.

Before prorogation, the House of Lords agreed a motion to ‘suspend’ the Bill. Suspension is the private bill equivalent of ‘carry-over’ for public bills, allowing a bill to continue in the next session, resuming at the stage it had reached previously. However, suspension (unlike carry-over) requires the agreement of the other House. When the suspension motion was considered in the Commons, objections were raised. Because a single objection is sufficient to delay consideration of a motion relating to a private bill, the suspension motion was not agreed before the end of the session and the Bill fell.

The promoters are now seeking to revive the Bill. Revival is a procedure available for private bills that allows a bill to be reintroduced and resumed from the stage it reached in the previous session. As with suspension, a revival motion requires the agreement of both Houses. The motion may face objections in the Commons again. However, the Leader of the House of Commons has announced that time will be allocated for private business on Monday 15 June. If the revival motion is debated then, it cannot be blocked by a single objection and would instead be decided by a vote of the House.

Commercial Payments Bill (Second Reading): Peers will debate the Government’s legislation to improve commercial payment practices and address persistent late payment of commercial debts. (House of Lords Library briefing)

The Bill would cap payment terms in commercial contracts at 60 days for large businesses and 30 days for public authorities, introduce mandatory interest on late payments at 8% above the Bank of England base rate, and prohibit the withholding of retention payments under construction contracts. The Bill would also strengthen the investigative, adjudicative and enforcement powers of the Small Business Commissioner.

At Second Reading, Peers debate the general principles of a bill rather than its detailed wording. They cannot amend the text at this stage. The House of Lords does not typically hold a division (a formal vote) on Government bills at Second Reading.

Once the Bill receives a Second Reading, it will proceed to Committee Stage in Grand Committee. The Government has not yet announced how long the Committee Stage is expected to last nor has it scheduled any Committee sittings.

Statutory Instrument debate – Household tumble dryers: The House will debate a ‘regret motion’ relating to the Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Household Tumble Dryers) Regulations 2026. The Regulations would update the eco-design and energy labelling requirements for household tumble dryers in Great Britain, bringing them into line with relevant EU (and Northern Ireland) legislation.

The Regulations are subject to the negative procedure, meaning they can be made by a Minister (signed into law) before being laid before Parliament. They will remain law unless either House passes a motion to annul them within 40 days of being laid.

However, today’s motion is not an annulment motion, but a regret motion. This cannot block the Regulations but rather allows the House to record any concerns it has about them. The motion, tabled by non-affiliated peer Baroness Hoey, expresses concern that the alignment with Northern Ireland will require the UK to follow EU law and that the Regulations will lead to increased costs and lower efficacy associated with heat pump tumble dryers.

Statutory Instrument debate – Clean Air Zones: The House will debate a motion to approve the draft Clean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026. The Regulations would enable the Secretary of State to continue to charge local authorities a fee for using the Clean Air Zones (CAZ) Central Services until the end of March 2031 and increase the fee for each charge processed through the CAZ Central Services website from £2 to £4.

The Regulations are subject to the draft affirmative procedure, meaning that both Houses must debate and vote to approve them before they can be signed into law.

Lord Moylan has tabled an amendment to the approval motion regretting the increase in the fee and arguing that it risks additional costs being passed on to motorists. This amendment, if agreed, would not block the Regulations but would express the House’s concerns on the record.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:45: Treasury Committee – Financial Inclusion Strategy: Economic Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Blake MP and a senior Financial Conduct Authority official will give evidence

10:00: Culture, Media and Sport Committee – BBC Royal Charter Review: Broadcaster and journalist Iain Dale and Observer editor-in-chief and former BBC News head James Harding will give evidence.

10:00: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee – Minister for Local Government and Homelessness Alison McGovern MP will give evidence on her policy areas.

10:30: Defence Committee – One-off session on Ukraine: Professor Michael Clarke of King’s College London, Professor Kristen Harkness of the University of St Andrews, and Orysia Lutsevych of Chatham House will give evidence.

11:00: Foreign Affairs Committee – Integrated Security Fund: Former MI5 Director General Lord Evans of Weardale and former Special Representative for Peacebuilding Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale will give evidence.

11:45: Modernisation Committee – Backbench Business Committee and Petitions Committee debates: Two former chairs of the Backbench Business Committee, Natascha Engel and Ian Mearns, will give evidence.

14:30: Women and Equalities Committee – The new Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and its Chief Executive will give evidence on the EHRC’s work.

14:30: Home Affairs Committee – Asylum accommodation: Border Security Minister Alex Norris MP and representatives of Clearsprings Ready Homes will face MPs’ questions.

14:30: Justice Committee – Access to justice: Courts Minister Sarah Sackman MP will give evidence.

15:00: Scottish Affairs Committee – Securing Scotland’s future – defence skills and jobs: Former Defence Secretary and former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson of Port Ellen will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:30: Justice and Home Affairs Committee – Fire safety in prisons: The Chief Executive and other senior officials from His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will give evidence.

10:45: Built Environment Committee – Young people and the built environment: The Minister for Sport, Tourism, Civil Society and Youth, Stephanie Peacock MP, will give evidence.

11:00: European Affairs Committee – Dynamic alignment: Hansard Society Director Dr Ruth Fox and Hansard Society Researcher Matthew England (who both produce this Bulletin) will give evidence alongside Professor Holger Hestermeyer of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy. At 11:50, the Earl of Kinnoull, former chair of the Lords European Affairs Committee, and Sir Bill Cash, former chair of the Commons European Scrutiny Committee, will also give evidence.

15:00: Economic Affairs Committee – Fiscal devolution in England: Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne 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.

Royal Albert Hall Bill (Revival): At 11:30, the Senior Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means, Nusrat Ghani MP, will move a motion proposing that the promoter of the Royal Albert Hall Bill have leave to revive this private bill after it fell at the end of the last session. The Bill started in the House of Lords in 2023 but has not yet been passed by the House of Commons. A carry-over motion ahead of prorogation was objected to in the Commons in April, so a revival motion is now required for the Bill to proceed.

Questions and statements: Scotland Office Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include economic growth, promotion of Scottish interests abroad, independence referendum proposals, the oil and gas sector, the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal, Pride in Place, the renewables sector, the Scotland Defence Growth Deal, and levels of employment.

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.

Railways Bill (Report and Third Reading): This Government bill, which would establish Great British Railways (GBR), a new publicly owned body with responsibility for the management and operation of the railway network, was carried over from the previous parliamentary session. (House of Commons Library briefing)

At Report Stage, the whole House debates decides whether to make amendments or add new clauses to the Bill. At Third Reading, the House decides whether to approve the final version of the Bill.

In accordance with the programme order agreed on 9 December 2025, Report Stage will be brought to a conclusion by 18:00 at the latest, at which point the House will vote on any amendments tabled by the Government or selected by the Speaker for separate decision, most likely including some of the amendments from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenches (see the Amendment Paper here).

The House will then move on to Third Reading. The programme order specifies that Third Reading must conclude by 19:00 at the latest. Since much of the time after 18:00 will be taken up by divisions at Report Stage, this Third Reading debate will be very short. Once the Bill receives a Third Reading it will be sent to the House of Lords for further consideration.

Adjournment: Conservative MP David Reed will give a speech on improving national resilience. A Minister will then give a response. (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology briefing)

Westminster Hall

09:30: Local government reform (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Children in child contact arrangements (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: Government support for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Government support for human rights in Myanmar

16:30: Water supply in Kent (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committees

14:30: The draft Clean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

16:30: The draft Scotland Act 1998 (Increase of Borrowing Limits) Order 2026

16:30: The draft Food Supplements Purity Criteria (Magnesium L-threonate monohydrate) (England) Regulations 2026

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Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on publication of the impact assessment of the 56-day move-on period pilot for those granted refugee status; Best Start Family Hubs; and priorities for farming and food production. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 8 June.

Debates on select committee reports: The House will debate three select committee reports:

• the report of the Autism Act 2009 Committee, Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy and the Government’s response (House of Lords Library briefing);

• the report of the Home-Based Working Committee, Is working from home working? and the Government’s response (House of Lords Library briefing); and

• the report of the Built Environment Committee, New Towns: Laying the Foundations, and the Government’s response (House of Lords Library briefing).

Grand Committee

From 16:15, the House will debate six draft Statutory Instruments:

• Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026;

• Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2026;

• Marine Licensing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment etc.) Order 2026;

• Food Supplements Purity Criteria (Magnesium L-threonate monohydrate) (England) Regulations 2026;

• Energy Prices Act 2022 (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026; and

• Contracts for Difference (Allocation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:30: Health and Social Care Committee and Education Committee – Children’s and young people’s mental health: The two committees, sitting jointly, will hear from a range of experts in the children’s sector, including at 11:00 from the Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza.

10:00: Justice Committee – The Committee will hold a pre-appointment hearing with the Government’s preferred candidate for chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission, Professor Lynne Berry.

14:15: Treasury Committee – Student loans and taxation of graduates: Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby MP and Skills Minister Baroness Smith of Malvern will give evidence.

14:30: Environmental Audit Committee – Risks and opportunities to the sustainability of data centres in the UK: Representatives from Amazon Web Services, the Ada Lovelace Institute, and techUK will be among those giving evidence to this new inquiry.

14:45: Procedure Committee – Written Parliamentary Questions: The Principal Clerk of the House of Commons Table Office and the Acting Deputy Head of the Table Office will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:30: Constitution Committee – The Committee will hold its annual evidence session with the Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill.

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, Transport Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include mass transit systems, public ownership of rail, passenger rail service improvements, transport in rural areas, rail connectivity, summer rail travel, safety at road junctions, timetable changes, import tariffs for diesel and electric buses, decarbonisation, and bus services.

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.

General debate on the legacy of Jo Cox: The House will hold a debate in Government time to mark the tenth anniversary of the murder of Jo Cox on 16 June 2016 (a similar debate was held in 2021 to mark the fifth anniversary on a neutral motion “That this House has considered the legacy of Jo Cox”).The debate will give MPs an opportunity to reflect on her parliamentary work, her campaigning on loneliness, and the continuing legacy of the Jo Cox Foundation. It may also prompt discussion of wider issues, including the rise in political violence, the safety of elected representatives and candidates, and the importance of maintaining respectful democratic debate. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Adjournment: Labour MP Joe Powell will give a speech marking the ninth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

13:30: Angus MacDonald, a member of the Scottish Affairs Committee, will make a statement on the Committee’s report Clean Power by 2030: A fair deal for Scotland? Select committees can ask the Backbench Business Committee for time to make statements on the launch of inquiries or the publication of a report, including in Westminster Hall. A statement consists of a 10-minute speech from a member of the select committee, followed by 10 minutes of questions from MPs, to which the select committee member responds.

13:50: Freedom of religion or belief in Sudan (House of Commons Library briefing)

15:10: Secondary breast cancer (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 implementing the National Policy Planning Framework changes regarding the mandatory use of sustainable drainage systems in new developments; creating a legal framework for the proscription of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps; and tackling antisemitism in the UK. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 9 June.

General debate – Welfare reforms and youth unemployment: 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 Conservative peer Lord Evans of Rainow, is on the Government’s approach to welfare reforms and the current levels of youth unemployment. The debate will take place on a neutral motion to ‘take note’ of the issue, and will therefore conclude without a formal vote (a division). (House of Lords Library briefing)

Short debate – Bosnia and Herzegovina: Every Thursday from the start of a session until the end of January, a topical question for short debate (sometimes referred to in Lords papers as the QSD) is scheduled between two general debates. The topic is selected by ballot, and only backbench and Crossbench members are eligible to enter. These QSD 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 then divided equally among other Members who wish to speak.

Today’s QSD, tabled by the Conservative peer Baroness Helic, asks what assessment the Government have made of the political and security situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

General debate – Rural economy: The second general debate, led by Conservative peer Lord Fuller, is on the Government’s record on the rural economy. As with the first general debate, the discussion will 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 – Investment in research infrastructure: The Permanent Secretary at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, and the Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council will give evidence.

House of Lords

10:50: Numeracy for Life Committee – Numeracy for life: The Committee will hear from the Chairman of Skills England and senior officials from the Department for Education.

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

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Neither House is scheduled to sit on Friday 12 June 2026. Both Houses will resume at 14:30 on Monday 15 June. Our next Bulletin will therefore be published on Sunday 14 June.

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