Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
If an e-petition reaches , signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate usually Monday 4. These initiatives were driven by Paul Holmes, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences. MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions. A Bill to make provision about the maintenance of registers by local authorities of children in their area who are not full-time pupils at any school; to make provision about support by local authorities to promote the education of such children; to make provision about school attendance orders; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to introduce a presumption in planning decision-making against approving quarry development in close proximity to settlements; to require the risks of proposed quarrying sites to the environment and to public health to be assessed as part of the planning process; to provide that the decision on a planning application for quarry development may only be made by the Secretary of State; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to establish independent local planning processes to determine housing development planning applications submitted by local authorities; and for connected purposes. It is a long-standing convention that the fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised and the content of their advice must not be disclosed outside Government without their authority.
The Prime Minister raised a range of domestic and foreign issues in his meeting with President Xi at the G20 on 18 November. A read-out of this meeting is available on the GOV. UK website. Ministerial meetings with external organisations will be published in the usual way on gov. As set out by the Minister without Portfolio, the updated Ministerial Code will be published in due course.
