Questions and statements: At 14:30, Education Ministers will face questions on topics such as skills training, breakfast clubs in primary schools, and support for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Ten of the 23 questions listed on the Order Paper are duplicates, hinting at potential co-ordination by party Whips or the Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) – an approach highlighted in previous Bulletins.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Main business: Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill (Remaining stages). Commonly known as Martyn’s Law in memory of one of the victims of the Manchester Arena Bombing, the Bill introduces requirements for certain premises to reduce the risk of harm to the public. Premises expected to host between 200 and 799 people are subject to a “standard duty”, while those expecting 800 or more attendees must meet an “enhanced duty”. The Secretary of State will have the authority to adjust these thresholds within certain limits via regulations. Non-compliance with the Bill’s requirements may result in daily penalties of up to £500 for premises subject to the "standard duty" and up to £50,000 for those subject to the "enhanced duty", amounts which can also be amended by the Secretary of State through regulations. The Bill also establishes the new regulatory body – the Security Industry Authority – to monitor and ensure compliance with the new rules.

Most of the amendments now proposed to the Bill are from the Government, primarily aimed at refining the drafting or providing greater clarity to the provisions.

The Conservative Party has tabled several amendments to refine the scope and implementation of the Bill, including:

• restricting the power to amend the thresholds for the standard and enhanced duties, ensuring that they cannot be lowered beyond the current levels of 200 and 800 attendees, respectively;

• limiting the scope of the power to adjust the daily penalties, allowing only reductions in the penalty amount; and

• requiring a review of the Security Industry Authority’s role as the regulator, considering an alternative approach where its functions would be carried out by local authorities.

One of the Liberal Democrat amendments would also require the Secretary of State to develop and implement a training plan for qualifying premises.

Select Committee nominations: There are several motions on the Order Paper to replace current members of select committees (all of whom were only recently appointed). In each case a replacement is needed because an MP has been appointed to a role in Government (as a Minister or Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS)) or on the Opposition frontbench.

• Labour MP Lucy Rigby will step down from the Treasury Committee to be replaced by John Grady MP, following her recent appointment as Solicitor General, succeeding Sarah Sackman who was reshuffled to the role of Courts Minister. Sackman’s move filled the vacancy left by Heidi Alexander, who became Transport Secretary after Louise Haigh’s resignation.

• Labour MP Josh Simons has been appointed as a PPS and so will be replaced on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee by Jon Pearce MP.

• Conservative MP Mims Davies will be replaced on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee by Damian Hinds MP, following her appointment as shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

• Conservative MP Wendy Morton will be replaced on the Backbench Business Committee by Martin Vickers, having been made a shadow Foreign Office Minister.

Adjournment: The Conservative MP Matt Vickers has the adjournment debate on Government policy on waste and recycling.

Westminster Hall: MPs will debate e-petitions 639319 and 700013 relating to the sale and use of fireworks, the subject having been determined by the Petitions Committee. The two petitions, which received 50,000 and 75,000 signatures respectively, call for the sale of fireworks to be limited to licensed professionals.

Questions: Topics to be raised by Members include the Government’s plans to allow maintained schools to set the number of days on which they are open during a school year; what steps are being taken to ensure the Government’s legislative agenda does not undermine vocational training; and what plans Ministers have to respond to the Green Finance Institute’s report ‘A Greenprint for Property Linked Finance in the UK’. The third of the four oral questions has been tabled by the former Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, who will ask Ministers about their plans to reduce the number of Peers eligible to sit in the House of Lords. During his tenure as Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler advocated for reforms to reduce the size of the Upper House. His question underscores ongoing concerns among Peers about the size and composition of the House of Lords.

Motion regarding the arrangement of the Order Paper: The Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Smith of Basildon, will then move a motion to dispense with Standing Order 38(1) to allow the Second Reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill to commence at 11:00 on Wednesday, 11 December ahead of Oral Questions. The Standing Order ordinarily requires Oral Questions to take precedence over other business. At the end of last week, 93 Peers had indicated their wish to speak in the debate on the Bill, and the speaker list will remain open until 18:00 on Monday, 9 December. To accommodate the high level of interest, the time allocated for the debate is therefore being extended, ensuring as many contributions as possible can be included.

Statutory Instruments: The House will be asked to approve two Statutory Instruments: the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 and the Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024.

Main business: Football Governance Bill (Committee Stage). This marks the fourth of what will now be six days in Committee for the Bill. Initially, the Bill was scheduled to undergo scrutiny over five days, but progress has been so slow – after two days, Peers had only managed to address the first few clauses – that an additional day has been allocated. Ministers have suggested that Conservative opponents of the Bill are deliberately filibustering to delay its passage. Concerns about the Bill, including its delegated powers and the risk that amendments could render it subject to hybrid procedures, were explored in detail in the latest episode of our Parliament Matters podcast.

Question for Short Debate: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie, Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland, will ask Education Minister Baroness Smith of Malvern (former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith) about the Government’s plans to support children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (15:30): MPs will hear from the Home Office Permanent Secretary and senior officials regarding the department’s acquisition of the former HMP Northeye in Bexhill-on-Sea. Purchased in September 2023, the site was intended to house asylum seekers but remains non-operational. A report from the National Audit Office last month highlighted significant issues with the acquisition process, stating that the Home Office’s rushed approach led it to “cut corners and make a series of poor decisions”. According to the NAO, this resulted in the purchase of a site unsuitable for its intended purpose and at a higher cost than necessary. The Government has since suggested that a change in policy may lead to the site being sold instead of used for asylum accommodation. The Committee’s session will explore these findings and the decision-making processes behind the acquisition.

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Questions and statements: At 11:30, Justice Ministers will take questions from MPs, addressing a range of issues including violence against women and girls, strategies to prevent reoffending, prison capacity, and court capacity. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has the second question listed on the Order Paper, focusing on the International Criminal Court and international arrest warrants. This is likely linked to the recent high-profile arrest warrants issued against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others. Six of the 20 questions on the Order Paper are duplicates of at least one other.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Conservative MP and Shadow Paymaster General Richard Holden will present a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Bill. The Bill would prohibit the marriage of first cousins. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

Main business: Finance Bill (Committee of the Whole House, day 1). The Finance Bill is needed to give statutory authority to the tax changes announced in October’s Budget. At Committee stage, Finance Bills are subject to a ‘split committal’ procedure whereby some parts of the Bill are sent to a Public Bill Committee – composed of up to 40 members and which deliberates away from the Commons Chamber – while the more contentious provisions are debated by the entire House in the Chamber during the Committee of the Whole House stage. For this Bill, the programme order has committed four key areas for consideration in Committee of the Whole House: capital gains tax rates and relief, the oil and gas levy, VAT on private school fees, and stamp duty.

Today’s debate focuses on the first two of those four proposed changes including:

Three changes to capital gains tax:

• increasing the main rates of capital gains tax on assets other than residential property from 10% to 20% and 18% to 24%;

• increasing the rate of capital gains tax that applies to trustees and personal representatives from 20% to 24%; and

• increasing the rate of capital gains tax that applies to Business Asset Disposal Relief and Investors Relief from 10% to 18% (over a two year period).

Three changes to the taxation of oil and gas company profits:

• increasing the rate of the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) – an additional tax on profits made by oil and gas companies – from 35% to 38% (bringing the total headline rate of tax to 78%);

• extending the expiry date of the EPL by one year to April 2030; and

• eliminating the investment allowance (except for decarbonisation investment), which allowed a portion of re-invested profits to be excluded from the additional tax.

Conservative amendments for today’s debate propose requiring the Government to:

• produce a report six months after the Act is passed setting out the impact on tax revenue of removing the investment allowance for the oil and gas levy;

• produce a report three months after the Act comes into force setting out the impact on the oil and gas sector of changes to the oil and gas levy;

• publish a review of the expected impact of changes to capital gains tax on ‘carried interest gains’; and

• publish a review of the expected impact of changes to the rate of capital gains tax that applies to Business Asset Disposal Relief.

The Liberal Democrat amendments would mandate similar reviews, and the publication of Impact Assessments related to the provisions.

The proposed changes to agricultural property relief for inheritance tax, announced in the Budget, are absent from the current Finance Bill. The Government has indicated that these changes will not take effect until the beginning of the next financial year. As such, it intends to include the provisions in a future Finance Bill.

Adjournment: The Labour MP Fabian Hamilton has the adjournment debate on International Human Rights Day.

Westminster Hall: There are five Westminster Hall debates: on rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases; the impact of the Cleve Hill Solar Park on communities in Faversham and Mid Kent constituency; treatment of lobular breast cancer; telegraph poles in Birmingham; and cycling infrastructure in rural areas.

Questions: Peers will ask Ministers about the development of a National Youth Strategy; action being taken to facilitate touring in, and trading with, Europe for the arts and creative industries; the number of guns manufactured by 3D printers that are circulating in the UK; and what steps are being taken to reduce the impact of a potential “quad-demic”, involving high prevalence of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, COVID-19 and norovirus, following the recent warning from Professor Sir Stephen Powis, the NHS national medical director.

Main business: Several Statutory Instruments will be debated, three of which make quite substantial and controversial policy changes.

The Home Detention Curfew and Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods (Amendment) Order 2024 SI introduces two significant changes against the backdrop of prison overcrowding: it will expand the list of offences excluded from early release at 40% of a sentence and extend eligibility for early release on electronic monitoring. The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) has drawn the SI to the special attention of the House citing insufficient explanatory information – specifically the Government’s failure to evaluate and publish a detailed analysis of the changes’ impact, particularly on essential support services such like the probation system.

• Earlier this year, an SI reduced the point of automatic release on license from 50% to 40% of a sentence. This new Order adds six serious offences – including harassment, sexual harassment, stalking, and breaches of restraining orders – to the list of those excluded from this rule. Offenders convicted of these crimes will now only qualify for release on licence at the 50% mark of their sentence.

• Currently, Ministers have discretionary power to allow offenders to leave prison up to 180 days before their automatic release date under electronically monitored curfews. This Order extends that eligibility period to 365 days. According to the Explanatory Memorandum, the goal is to ensure sufficient prison capacity to meet court demand. However, the SLSC has raised concerns about the combined effect of this change with the earlier reduction of the automatic release point to 40%. Together, these measures mean that many offenders could be released significantly earlier than under previous rules. For instance, a prisoner serving a four-year sentence could see their earliest release date shift from 18 months to just seven months.

The Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 establish new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) border controls on certain goods entering Great Britain from Northern Ireland. Lord Dodds of Duncairn, a Democratic Unionist Party member, has tabled a ‘regret motion’ regarding this Statutory Instrument (SI). While not rejecting the SI outright, the motion criticises it for implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol and Windsor Framework, which, according to Lord Dodds, “prevent Northern Ireland from being fully integrated into the United Kingdom’s internal market and undermine the democratic and constitutional rights of its people.”

A regret motion has also been tabled by Conservative Peer, Baroness Scott of Bybrook, regarding the Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (England) Order 2024, raising concerns that the Order will reduce opportunities for social tenants to purchase their property and therefore undermine home ownership. The Order lowers the maximum discount available to social tenants under the Right to Buy scheme.

Peers will also debate the following SIs:

• the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2025;

• the Police Act 1997 (Authorisations to Interfere with Property: Relevant Offence) Regulations 2025;

• the National Security Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment of Primary Legislation) Regulations 2025; and

• the Local Digital Television Programme Services (Amendment) Order 2024.

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Once these SI debates have concluded, there will be a short 90-minute debate on the steps the Government is taking to support opera.

Grand Committee: Data (Use and Access) Bill (Committee stage, day two). There are over 200 amendments on the marshalled list, of which just over a quarter were dealt with on the first day in committee. Some of the amendments proposed were discussed in last week’s edition of the Bulletin and a detailed analysis of the Bill’s provisions can be found in the House of Lords Library briefing on the Bill. Amendments proposed in Grand Committee are ‘probing’ amendments designed to encourage debate, test opinion, or secure a commitment from the Government. No divisions can take place in Grand Committee, so amendments can only be made to the Bill by unanimous agreement.

House of Commons

• Treasury Committee (10:00): Evidence from the Chair and Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about the organisation’s work.

• Education Committee (10:00): A pre-appointment hearing with the Government’s preferred candidate for Chief Regulator at Ofqual, Sir Ian Bauckham CBE.

• Defence Committee (10:30): Senior think-tank representatives from Chatham House and Policy Exchange will give evidence in a one-off session titled ‘Ukraine: 1000 days on’.

• Culture, Media and Sport Committee (13:00): Secretary of State Lisa Nandy will give evidence about the work of her department.

• Foreign Affairs Committee (14:00): The daughter of one of the hostages in Gaza and the Ambassador to the UK for the Palestinian Mission will be among those giving evidence in a session devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Home Affairs Committee (14:30): MPs will hear from four Police Chief Constables about the summer riots that took place following the mass stabbing in Southport.

• Business and Trade Committee (14:30): Trade Minister, Douglas Alexander MP, and Foreign Office Minister, Stephen Doughty MP, will give evidence alongside departmental officials about UK arms exports to Israel.

• Justice Committee (14:30): A pre-appointment hearing with Nicole Lappin, the Government’s preferred candidate for Chair of the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreement.

• Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (15:00): The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden and Cat Little, Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office, will give evidence about the work of the Cabinet Office.

House of Lords

• European Affairs Committee (16:00): The Minister for the Constitution and European Relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, and Minister for Europe in the Foreign Office, Stephen Doughty MP, will give evidence to the Committee.

A summary of Wednesday's business continues below!

Questions and statements: At 11:30, Wales Office Ministers will face questions from MPs. Questions concern issues such as NHS waiting lists in Wales, the impact of the Budget, the proposed tourism levy, and the impact of Storm Bert. Notably, none of the questions on the Order Paper are duplicates of any other question. Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Prime Minister’s Questions: At 12:00, Sir Keir Starmer will face the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, at PMQs.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Labour MP Amanda Martin will present a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Theft of Tools of Trade (Sentencing) Bill. The Bill would make provision in relation to sentencing for theft in relation to tools of trade. Earlier this year, hundreds of tradespeople took part in a demonstration in London calling for tougher action and enforcement against the theft and resale of stolen tools.

Main business: Finance Bill (Committee of the Whole House, day 2). Today’s debate will focus on clauses relating to two categories of tax changes:

• to the application of VAT to private school fees – enabling the standard rate of VAT (20%) to be charged on private school fees for education and vocational training; and

• to stamp duty land tax (‘stamp duty’) – increasing the additional rate of stamp duty from 3% to 5% when purchasing an additional dwelling (second homes, etc.).

• Conservative amendments tabled to date focus primarily on the stamp duty provisions. These amendments propose requiring the Government to publish an assessment of how increased stamp duty on second homes will affect the private rental sector and the wider housing market.

No amendments have been tabled to the private school VAT provisions. However, during the Committee stage, the House will vote on whether each clause should be included in the Bill. The Conservatives may oppose the inclusion of the relevant clauses at this stage.

Once Committee of the Whole House concludes, the Bill will move to a Public Bill Committee, which will scrutinise the remaining clauses in detail. After this, the Bill will return to the House of Commons Chamber for Report stage.

Adjournment: The Liberal Democrat MP Calum Miller has the adjournment debate on ‘Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects’ and the local road network.

Westminster Hall: There are five Westminster Hall debates: on Government support for the explosive ordinance disposal community; dental healthcare provision in East Anglia; responsibilities of housing developers; financial inclusion in rural areas; and the future of rail services in Devon.

Main Business: House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill (Second Reading). If Monday’s motion to adjust the day’s order of business is approved, the debate will commence at 11:00 instead of following oral questions. A significant number of Peers – at least 93, including several hereditaries – are expected to participate. Among them is Lord Brady of Altrincham (formerly Graham Brady MP, Chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee) who will deliver his maiden speech. The debate will pause at 15:00 for oral questions and resume approximately 40 minutes later.

Oral questions: Peers will question Ministers about the cost of prescribing anti-depressants in the NHS over the past decade, and on plans to improve special educational needs provision in state schools. Lord Rooker will also inquire whether the Government still intends to introduce regulations to amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 by the end of the year, a measure he has long supported to require fortification of flour with folic acid. The topic of the fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday, 9 December.

Grand Committee (16:15pm): Product Regulation and Metrology Bill. It is expected that Peers will consider amendments on international standards for products, regulation of lithium-ion batteries and safety of products used in construction. Five days were allocated for consideration of the Bill in Grand Committee before the Christmas recess; given the progress to date, it is likely that more time will be needed in the New Year.

House of Commons

• Transport Committee (9:15): The Rail Minister, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, and senior Department for Transport officials will give evidence about rail services and infrastructure.

• Welsh Affairs Committee (9:30): Senior officials at HMP Parc, as well as the Prisons Minister Lord Timpson will give evidence. The governance of HMP Parc, which is managed by private security company G4S, has recently come under scrutiny, following the deaths of ten inmates in the space of three months.

• Health and Social Care Committee (09:30): MPs will question representatives from the NHS, Social Care, Nursing and General Practice about implementation of the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan.

• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (10:00): Tax experts and representatives from the farming industry, including the National Farmers’ Union, will give evidence on the future of farming.

• Treasury Committee (14:15): The new Chair of the Office for Value for Money (OVfM) David Goldstone will give evidence with officials about the role and work of the Office. The OVfM was announced in the Budget in October and will provide advice to the Chancellor on waste and inefficiency in government spending. Goldstone’s appointment has attracted some criticism as he previously served as a non-executive director of HS2 Ltd. More recently he was Chief Executive of the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority and he played a leading role in delivering the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

• Women and Equalities Committee (14:20): Representatives from various charities will give evidence about the rights of older people.

• International Development Committee (14:45): A pre-appointment hearing with Jillian Popkins, the Government’s preferred candidate to be the next Chief Commissioner of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI).

• Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (15:00): MPs will take evidence from the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of the new National Energy System Operator (NESO), a national not-for-profit company with responsibility for planning Britain’s gas and electricity networks and ensuring a sufficient and stable power supply to the grid. The hearing is expected to focus on what energy mix is required to deliver clean power across the UK by 2030.

House of Lords

• Financial Services Regulation Committee (10:05): The Chief Executives of the Nationwide, the Principality, and the Coventry Building Societies, as well as the Chief Executive of the Building Societies Association will give evidence regarding the secondary international competitiveness and growth objective given to the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulatory Authority under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023.

Questions and statements: At 9:30, Business and Trade Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics covered will include support for high street businesses, the hospitality sector, and small businesses. Ten of the 24 questions on the Order Paper are duplicates of at least one other question.

Any Urgent Questions will follow.

The Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, will then give her weekly Business Statement, setting out the business in the House for the coming week. Any other Ministerial Statements will follow.

Backbench Business: The day begins with a general debate on Lord Etherton’s independent review into the treatment of LGBT veterans.

There will then be a further general debate on the performance of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Adjournment: The Liberal Democrat MP Pippa Heylings has the adjournment debate on SEND provision for children and young people with autism and ADHD.

Westminster Hall: There is one debate in Westminster Hall, on Disability History Month. Labour MP Marsha de Cordova lobbied the Backbench Business Committee for this debate, supported by Conservative MPs Sir Julian Lewis and David Mundell. As de Cordova told the Committee, all MPs have disabled people in their constituencies and the debate would give them the opportunity “to celebrate achievements in their own patches, acknowledge some of the challenges and come up with some solutions that we can put to the Government.”

Oral questions: A notable question on the Order Paper comes from Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, who will ask about the Government’s plans to overturn the convictions of sub-postmasters or former Post Office employees implicated in relation to the Capture system. As an MP, James Arbuthnot was instrumental in raising awareness and advocating for sub-postmasters who were wrongfully convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal. Recent investigations have revealed that Capture, the accounting system used by the Post Office before the Horizon system was introduced, is also likely to have been faulty, leading to prosecutions and terminations of employment for several sub-postmasters. Other questions concern support for local authorities to deliver of mandatory house-building targets; and plans to mark the 75th anniversary of Formula One in 2025. The topic of the fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday, 10 December.

Main business: There will be two ‘take note’ debates (a procedure which enables Peers to debate a subject without requiring them to take a specific decision) in the Chamber on:

• the impact of the Government’s Budget proposals on the future of small farms and family businesses (so in relation to the changes to inheritance tax relief for agricultural property); and

• the need to eliminate domestic abuse, and to support its victims and survivors.

Grand Committee: Four short debates will take place on:

• the steps the Government will take to ensure that patients with allergies receive timely and comprehensive care from the NHS;

• the steps the Government are taking to reduce the size of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) prison population following the publication on 15 November of the HMPPS Annual Report on the IPP Sentence;

• the steps the Government are taking to increase the supply and improve the quality of homes people want, in the places they want to live, whilst ensuring that development does not adversely affect existing communities; and

• plans for enhanced humanitarian assistance for the people of Ukraine this winter, and in particular for mental health, energy and housing provision.

House of Commons

• Public Accounts Committee (10:00): The Permanent Secretary and senior officials at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero will give evidence about carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS). This inquiry builds upon a National Audit Office report earlier this year on the department’s implementation of the CCUS programme, following a commitment from the Government to provide £20 billion to fund the work over the next 20 years.

• Foreign Affairs Committee (11:30): MPs will hear from a Director at the British Red Cross and an international law academic as part of their ongoing inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The House will not be sitting.

Private Members’ Bills: There are six bills on the Order Paper. The first two have reached Third Reading – there were no amendments tabled to either bill at Committee stage so the Committee for both bills was discharged and consequently no Report Stage was required. If the Bills successfully pass this final stage, they will move to the House of Commons for consideration – provided that the sponsors can secure an MP to adopt and guide the Bills through the Commons stages. However, without Government support, both Bills are unlikely to make significant progress and will face considerable challenges in advancing further.

• Women, Peace and Security Bill

• Listed Investment Companies (Classification etc) Bill

The other four bills on the Order Paper have reached only their Second Reading stage:

• Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill

• Asylum Support (Prescribed Period) Bill

• Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill

• Public Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill.

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