Contents
Chamber business
The House met at 9.30 am.
Prayers
1Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport
2Urgent Question: Russian ship Yantar (Al Carns)
The Deputy Speaker announced the results of the Division which had been deferred to Wednesday 19 November (Standing Order No. 41A).
Telecommunications
That the draft Radio Equipment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025, which were laid before this House on 13 October, be approved.
Division No. 360
Ayes: 376
Noes: 16
Question agreed to.
4Urgent Questions: (1) Ukraine: Forced removal of children to Russia (Mr Hamish Falconer)
(2) Separation Centres: Terrorist offenders (Alex Davies-Jones)
5Business Question (Leader of the House)
6Statement: A Fairer Pathway to Settlement (Secretary Shabana Mahmood)
7Select Committee Statement (Standing Order No. 22D): Publication of the Seventh Report of the Justice Committee, Ending the cycle of reoffending – part one: rehabilitation in prisons, HC 469 (Andy Slaughter)
8Tax Reliefs (Evaluation) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Bobby Dean presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a framework for the regular evaluation of tax reliefs, including in relation to their effectiveness, cost and value for money and to require annual reporting under that framework; to require the Secretary of State to review all existing tax reliefs; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 14 January 2026, and to be printed (Bill 335).
9Declaration of Income and Gifts by Candidates for Elected Office (Russian Federation) Bill: Presentation (Standing Order No. 57)
Max Wilkinson, supported by Lisa Smart, presented a Bill to place a duty on candidates for elected office to declare any past or current income or gifts from the government of the Russian Federation or from any person or organisation connected to that government; to place a duty on political parties to ensure that their candidates have made this declaration; and for connected purposes.
Bill read the first time; to be read a second time on Friday 10 July 2026, and to be printed (Bill 334).
(1) International Men’s Day
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House has considered International Men’s Day, the issues affecting, and contributions made by, men and boys, and what it means to be a man in Britain today.—(Josh Newbury.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
(2) Injury in service award
Motion made and Question proposed, That this House acknowledges the extreme risks faced by police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency service personnel in the line of duty; further acknowledges that many suffer catastrophic, career-ending injuries while protecting the public; regrets that these sacrifices are too often met with inadequate formal recognition; notes that existing honours are limited in scope and rarely conferred in such circumstances; believes this failure to properly acknowledge those who have sustained life-altering injuries in public service is a serious oversight; welcomes the growing cross-party consensus that urgent action is needed; and calls on the Cabinet Office to rectify this injustice by establishing a dedicated injury in service award to formally recognise and honour the extraordinary sacrifice of emergency service workers injured in the line of duty.—(Tom Morrison.)
The Deputy Speaker announced a time limit on backbench speeches (Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Question put and agreed to.
Subject: Government support for children and families impacted by serious neurological conditions (James Asser)
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Lilian Greenwood.)
Adjourned at 5.19 pm until Monday 24 November.
Other Proceedings
Changes to Notices Given
12Trade Agreements (Exclusion of National Health Services) Bill
Order for Second Reading on Friday 28 November, read and discharged.
Bill to be read a second time on Friday 15 May 2026.
General Committees: Appointments
The Speaker appoints the Chair of General Committees and members of Programming Sub-Committees, and allocates Statutory Instruments to Delegated Legislation Committees.
The Committee of Selection nominates Members to serve on General Committees (and certain Members to serve on Grand Committees).
13First Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Extension to Unconnected Multiple Employer Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025)
Chair: Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Members: Mr Peter Bedford, Lizzi Collinge and Natasha Irons discharged and Graeme Downie, Daniel Francis and Blake Stephenson nominated in substitution.
14Second Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025)
Chair: Sir Jeremy Wright
Members: Ms Stella Creasy discharged and Alison Taylor nominated in substitution.
15Third Delegated Legislation Committee (draft Education (Scotland) Act 2025 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2025)
Chair: Wera Hobhouse
Select Committees: Reports
16Backbench Business Committee
Determination of business to be taken on Tuesday 2 December, Tuesday 9 December and Thursday 11 December in Westminster Hall and Thursday 4 December in the Chamber (Bob Blackman).
17Public Accounts (Committee of)
Costs of clinical negligence: Oral and written evidence, to be published (HC 1234) (Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown).
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker
Westminster Hall
The sitting began at 1.30 pm.
Business determined by the Backbench Business Committee (Standing Orders No. 10(7) and No. 14(4))
1Inequalities faced by unpaid carers
Motion made and Queston proposed, That this House has considered inequalities faced by unpaid carers.—(Anna Dixon.)
The Chair announced a time limit on backbench speeches (under the authority of the Chairman of Ways and Means and Standing Order No. 47(1)).
Resolved, That this House has considered inequalities faced by unpaid carers.
Resolved, That this House has considered World COPD Day.—(Jim Shannon.)
Sitting adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 10(14)).
Adjourned at 4 pm until Monday 24 November.
Ms Nusrat Ghani
Chairman of Ways and Means
Papers Laid
Papers subject to Affirmative Resolution
Draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary David Lammy)
Papers subject to Negative Resolution
Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 1207), dated 18 November 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary David Lammy)
Clean Heat Market Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 1208), dated 18 November 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum and an Impact Assessment (by Command) (Martin McCluskey)
Online Safety Act 2023 (Fees) (Threshold Figure) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 1204), dated 18 November 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Kanishka Narayan)
Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 1195), dated 17 November 2025 (by Act), with an Explanatory Memorandum (by Command) (Secretary Heidi Alexander)
Other papers
6Constitutional Reform and Governance
Report by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority on the MPs’ Pension Scheme: Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund (by Act), to be printed (HC 1390) (The Speaker)
7Health and Safety at Work etc.
Report and Accounts of the Health and Safety Executive for 2024–25, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1407) (Secretary Pat McFadden)
A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (by Command) (CP 1448) (Secretary Shabana Mahmood)
Report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry: Modules 2, 2A, 2B, 2C: Core decision-making and political governance (by Act), to be printed (HC 1436) (The Prime Minister)
Commissioners of HM Revenue and Customs in Account with the Government of the Isle of Man for 2024–25, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1362) (Dan Tomlinson)
Report and Accounts of the Disclosure and Barring Service for 2024–25, with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (by Act), to be printed (HC 1486) (Secretary Shabana Mahmood)
CORRECTION
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Item 20 (General Committees: Reports) should have appeared as follows:
() Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [Lords] Committee
Martin Vickers (Chair) reported:
(1) That the Committee had come to the following Resolution, That, subject to the discretion of the Chair, any written evidence received by the Committee shall be reported to the House for publication;
(2) written evidence submitted to the Committee; and
(3) the Bill, as amended.
Written evidence to be published.
Bill, as amended, to be considered tomorrow; and to be printed (Bill 130).