TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 ...

Featured item: 40 years of broadcasting from the House of Lords 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 ...

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25 was introduced on 17 December 2024. The bill had its second reading on 8 ...

Members discuss proposed changes on legislation to implement new rates announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Crown Estate Bill (Bill 135 of 2024–25) was introduced to the House of Commons on 19 November 2024. It started in the ...

The Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has today (21 January) published its decision (pdf, 305KB) dismissing an appeal by Colonel ...

Members of the House of Lords begin their line by line scrutiny of the Mental Health Bill in committee stage on Tuesday 14 ...

The King leaves Buckingham Palace in a procession that makes its way through the streets to the Houses of Parliament. The King then arrives at Sovereign's Entrance. When the King is seated upon the ...

Negative procedure is a type of parliamentary procedure that applies to statutory instruments (SIs). Its name describes the form of scrutiny that the SI receives from Parliament. An SI laid under the ...

Members of the House of Lords continue their detailed examination of the Great British Energy Bill at committee stage on Wednesday 22 January. The Great British Energy Bill seeks to establish Great ...

At the time of London's first Olympics in 1908, the amount of money in circulation in the UK was tied to the amount of gold in the economy. The gold standard had prevailed for most of the previous two ...

The average age at which women have children has been increasing since the middle of the 1970s. There is a tendency to think of this as a modern phenomenon associated with the rise of family planning, ...