House of Lords

News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.

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🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:    

🟥 discussions with the USA on reducing international tension
🟥 technical education pathways
🟥 #PublicOfficeAccountabilityBill
🟥 #RailwaysBill

➡️ See full schedule
https://t.co/Yuu4U0mONO

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NEW: I've accepted an urgent Lords question on what assessment Government has made of the National Security Adviser's role in tackling antisemitism in the UK to protect Jewish communities. The question from Lord Polak can be followed ⬇️ from circa 3.15pm:
https://t.co/w5fbBvfBtg

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Pleasure to host Dr Fiona Hill, who served in senior US national security & intelligence roles for three presidents, and hear her perspective on defence and foreign affairs at the latest Lord Speaker's lecture @UKHouseofLords.

You can follow in full here: https://t.co/CCcMAndMqq

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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 decline in cash payments
🟥 ending corridor care
🟥 drought statuses
🟥 #ArmedForcesBill

➡️ See full schedule and watch online https://t.co/mlwk6SuSFq

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🚨NEW: I've accepted an urgent Lords question on what plans, if any, are in place to extend the #BBC licence fee to streaming services, and the impact of this, from Lord Hunt of Wirral.

#streamingservices #YouTube #bbcnews

Follow from circa 3.15pm ⬇️
https://t.co/afNnr9RsmM

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📝 In committees, @LordsCommsCom will take evidence from the Competition and Markets Authority. Also, @LordsPublicSCom speaks to policy experts in children's social care.

➡️ See full schedule
https://t.co/a13SLGqICD

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❓Lords members quiz the government on economic contribution of settled migrants, ending corridor care, discussions with the USA on reducing international tension, and the Cross-Government Carers Action Plan.

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🗣️ In debates, members are scheduled to debate the UK-EU Agreement in respect of Gibraltar, effect of AI, screen usage and social media on children, sitting times of the House of Lords, and the proposals for a written constitution.

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"Ukraine is not anyone's to give. This war is about Ukrainians wanting to decide their own future."

Dr Fiona Hill, former advisor to the White House on Russia, delivering the latest Lord Speaker's lecture @UKHouseofLords.

My thanks to Lord Ahmad @tariqahmadbt for chairing.

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Family and friends form a powerfully supportive community when someone close has Parkinson’s.

Historian Lord Hennessy, joined by his wife Enid, tells me about his personal experience of the condition, after retiring from @UKHouseofLords.

@ParkinsonsUK @CarersUK

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🗣️ "Self-confident Secretaries of State do not use the Civil Service as their scapegoat."

Contemporary historian & crossbencher Lord Peter Hennessy, recently retired from @UKHouseofLords, joins Lord Speaker's Corner #podcast 👇

🔗 Full episode in comments

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The Children's Parliament UK @_cparliament was Sir David Amess' vision & I was delighted to join primary school pupils from across the country to debate @UKParliament.

We talked about why exchanging ideas & keeping an open mind is the best way to make good decisions in life 1/2

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On the fifth anniversary of the murder of my good friend Sir David Amess, killed doing his job as an MP, I'm thinking of his family. David was unfailingly kind & treated everyone equally. In our democracy, everyone should be able to go about their work without fear of violence.

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🕚#HouseOfLords from 11am includes:

🟥 foreign national offenders held in prisons
🟥 allegation of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum
🟥 democratic accountability
🟥 promoting family businesses

➡️ See full schedule and watch online
https://t.co/svrUnRfwUT

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🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:���   

🟥additional housing powers to local authorities
🟥 US-Russia deal on diesel exports
🟥#SovereignGrantBill
🟥 trade unions
🟥UK-Poland partnership

➡️ See full schedule
https://t.co/eAOBXGFERl

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Wonderful to hear Baroness Campbell's AI-created voice @UKHouseofLords for the first time; a first for @UKParliament & among the first in any legislature worldwide.

More than a tech milestone, it's very much HER voice, a powerful one for a leading disability rights campaigner📣

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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 fracture liaison services
🟥 industrial electricity prices and British manufacturing
🟥 Diego Garcia bill
🟥 petrol and diesel prices
🟥 #HealthBill

➡️ See full schedule and watch online https://t.co/m3K6pb7GrM

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📝 In committees, @HLIndustryCom speaks to @wesstreeting, for its inquiry into the relationship between the government and the defence industry. Also, @HLConstitution will hear from Dominic Cummings, for its inquiry into constitutional safeguards.

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https://t.co/F8qiH96iTg

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The House of Lords is set to question the government on weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, reintroducing the Diego Garcia bill, devolving housing powers to local authorities, and reducing the number of foreign national offenders held in prisons.

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🗣️ In debates, members are set to discuss the treaty between the UK and Poland on a security and defence, strengthening democratic accountability, threats to UK food security, competition law, and promoting family businesses.