Questions and statements: At 14:30, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and other Home Office Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include exploitation of migrant care workers, cyber crime, violence against women and girls, closure of asylum hotels, rural crime, and community policing.

At 15:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow. There may be a Ministerial Statement on the Government's decision to increase the level of the Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold from £1m to £2.5m. The "family farm tax" proposals were outlined in the 2024 Budget and were due to come into effect in April 2026. However, on 23 December, after the House had risen for recess, the Government announced that it would not proceed as planned and would instead incorporate the new threshold in the current Finance Bill which is due to be considered later this month. There may also be a Ministerial Statement addressing the evolving situation in Venezuela, as well as the RAF’s joint airstrikes with French forces on a Daesh-linked underground facility in Syria on the evening of Saturday 3 January. The Government plans to make a Written Statement today on its animal welfare strategy which may also warrant an oral statement to the House. Look out also for the Written Statement titled "Economic and fiscal forecast – Spring 2026", which may provide clarity on the timing of the Chancellor's Spring Statement.

Presentation of Bill: The Scottish National Party MP Kirsty Blackman will introduce a Bill titled the Removal of Peerages Bill to make provision about the removal of peerages in certain circumstances, including the consequent removal of any right to sit in the House of Lords. Any MP can present a Presentation Bill – a type of Private Member’s Bill – by giving notice of their intention to do so on a preceding sitting day. However, such Bills very rarely become law without Government support. As last Autumn’s events involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) made clear, a peerage can only be removed through an Act of Parliament. We explored the historical, legal and procedural background to this process on our Parliament Matters podcast with Dr Craig Prescott, an expert on the monarchy and constitutional law.

Debate on mobile connectivity in rural areas: This debate was chosen by the Backbench Business Committee following an application from the Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan. Rather than being a general debate on a neutral motion (“that this House has considered” the issue), the debate will be on a motion chosen by Morgan: “that this House calls on the Government and service providers to help improve mobile connectivity in rural areas”. (House of Commons Library briefing)

In her application, Morgan noted that there have been “a number of Westminster Hall debates on digital connectivity over the years, and they have always been oversubscribed”. She argued that now “would be a good moment to seize” the opportunity to give more Members the chance to speak on the issue in the Chamber. Her application was submitted in June 2025, underlining the intense competition for backbench debate slots.

It is not unusual for backbench business to be scheduled for the first day after a recess. This is because the return to Parliament is usually accompanied by an above average number of ministerial Statements and Urgent Questions as Members seek updates on developments that occurred while the House was not sitting. These additional items take up a significant portion of the days’ time, leaving limited space for other business.

Adjournment: Labour MP Alice Macdonald will give a speech on Government support for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

16:30: Debate on e-petition 702845, which calls for the extension of free bus travel in England to everyone over 60. The petition has over 101,000 signatures.

18:00: Debate on e-petition 727514, which calls for a reduction in the length of the school week to four days. The petition has over 126,000 signatures.

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on supporting parents with toilet training their children; sudden cardiac death in young people; the Muslim Brotherhood; and the use of X/Twitter in Government communications.

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill (Report): Today is the first and only day allocated to the Report Stage of the Government’s Bill to implement the UK–Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Report Stage, the whole House decides whether any amendments should be made, or new clauses added, to the Bill. Similar amendments and new clauses will be grouped together for debate, to prevent repetition and create a more focused debate. It is at Report Stage that the Government is most frequently defeated on amendments. Once Report Stage has concluded, the Bill will move on to Third Reading, which is scheduled for Wednesday (8 January).

The Government had originally planned for Report Stage to take place last year. However, before Committee Stage began, the Opposition sought to table an amendment to delay Committee Stage until a consultation with the Chagossians had taken place. To prevent the Committee Stage being delayed, the Government reportedly offered a concession, whereby it would delay Report Stage until the New Year. The Government also published a written statement shortly before the Christmas recess, outlining several developments with regard to Chagossian issues. The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee was also encouraged to carry out a short inquiry to “gather views from Chagossians” to inform scrutiny of this implementing legislation. Published just before Christmas, its report set out a range of concerns that the Government is urged to address and makes clear that “addressing the injustices revealed falls squarely within the responsibility of the Government”.

The House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee has drawn attention to a Henry VIII power in the Bill. This type of power allows Minsters to amend, repeal, or otherwise alter primary legislation (an Act of Parliament) by delegated (or secondary) legislation, in this case by an Order in Council (a form of legislation made in the name of the Monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council). Clause 5 confers a broad power on the King to make any provision by Order in Council “that appears to His Majesty to be appropriate as a result of the Treaty”. The Committee recommended:

• that the level of parliamentary scrutiny attached to the use of this power be strengthened – specifically that it be upgraded from the negative to the affirmative procedure, so that any use of the power would require debate and an approval vote in both Houses;

• where an Order in Council would make provision other than amending, repealing or revoking an Act of Parliament, the applicable procedure be upgraded from no parliamentary scrutiny at all, to the negative procedure (whereby the Order in Council would be laid before Parliament after it has been signed into law by the Minister and, if Parliament does not reject it within 40 days, it is deemed to have consented).

In its response, published on 23 December, the Government rejected both recommendations, arguing that its position was justified by historical precedent and by the Government’s prerogative powers in relation to treaty-making.

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No Select Committees are scheduled to meet today.

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Questions and statements: At 11:30, Energy Security and Net Zero Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include the capacity of the National Grid, climate change, the cost of new gas-fired power stations, transitioning from fossil fuels, and energy bills.

At 12:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Labour MP Jodie Gosling will seek to introduce a Property (Registration and Valuation) Bill under the Ten Minute Rule which allows MPs to give a ten-minute speech in favour of a Bill before seeking the House’s permission to introduce it. The Bill would make provision about requirements relating to the registration and valuation of domestic and non-domestic property, including exemptions from such requirements. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Second Reading): This Bill updates the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 to give the Government new powers to respond to cyber threats. The Bill extends the Regulations to more entities, such as data centres, and provides the Government with a broad power to amend or replace the existing Regulations. (House of Commons Library briefing)

It is unusual for the Government to introduce a Bill for the principal purpose of amending secondary legislation (in this case, the 2018 Regulations), since the Government can typically amend regulations using the same powers it used to make them. In this case, however, the 2018 Regulations were made using powers in the European Communities Act 1972 to give effect to EU law. The 1972 Act was repealed because of the UK’s departure from the EU, so the Government no longer has the requisite powers to update the 2018 Regulations. Hence, primary legislation is required.

Once the Bill reaches the House of Lords, its Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (DPRRC) will come to a view as to whether it is appropriate to leave the regulatory framework for cyber security to delegated legislation (also known as secondary or subordinate legislation) rather than to primary legislation. The DPRRC argued in its 2023 report on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill that the fact “that the existing provisions are contained in subordinate legislation is not in itself a good reason for replacement provisions to be contained in subordinate legislation”. This, it pointed out, is especially true for delegated legislation made under the 1972 Act, since the power to make regulations under the 1972 Act was subject to a critical constraint: those regulations had to give effect to EU law. Many of the EU-derived regulations made under the 1972 Act were as important as Acts of Parliament and, had we not been in the EU, would have been more appropriate as Acts of Parliament. The Government justifies the power as “crucial for ensuring the Government can respond to new and evolving cyber threats…without being beholden to the timeframes of primary legislation”.

If the Bill is given a Second Reading, the programme motion to be moved immediately afterwards proposes it be committed to a Public Bill Committee for clause-by-clause scrutiny, with the Committee required to complete its work by Thursday 5 March. The Government will also move a carry-over motion so that, if proceedings on the Bill are not completed by the end of the current Session (the date of which has not yet been confirmed), they can be resumed in the next Session. Without such a motion the Bill would fall at the end of the Session, requiring the Government to reintroduce it and repeat both the Second Reading and Public Bill Committee stages.

Adjournment: Liberal Democrat MP Calum Miller will give a speech on Government support for clearing illegal waste near the River Cherwell. A Minister will then give a response. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Westminster Hall

09:30: Less survivable cancers (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Poverty and Government welfare policies (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: Government proposals for renewal of the BBC Charter (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Therapeutic play and children’s healthcare

16:30: The future of Thames Water

Delegated Legislation Committee

14:30: Corporation Tax Act 2010 (Part 8C) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

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Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on flood prevention; the decline in graduate jobs; in-year defence spending; and the reliability of Channel Tunnel infrastructure given the power failure that disrupted train services on 30 December.

Licensing Hours Extensions Bill (Committee): This Private Member’s Bill seeks to amend the law governing licensing hours orders – regulations that permit the relaxation of licensing hours for events of exceptional national significance. It would change the procedure for making such orders from the affirmative to the negative scrutiny procedure, thereby removing the requirement for a debate and vote in Parliament. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Although Private Members’ Bills are usually considered on Fridays, uncontroversial bills often progress on other sitting days, with the co-operation of the Government. The Bill had an unopposed Second Reading and no amendments have been tabled so far. If none are submitted by Tuesday and no Peer signals an intention to speak, the Bill’s sponsor in the Lords (Labour Peer Lord Watson of Wyre Forest) may move at the start of the debate “that the order of commitment (or re-commitment) be discharged”, enabling the Bill to bypass Committee Stage entirely. If any amendments are tabled before the sitting, the Government may choose to reschedule the debate to a Friday to allow time for fuller consideration.

Sentencing Bill (Report): Today is the only day allocated to the Report Stage of the Government’s Bill to reform the sentencing system, in part to address the capacity crisis in the prison system. Details of the Bill are given in a previous Bulletin. At Committee Stage, non-Government amendments were defeated and only Government amendments were agreed, but further amendments have been tabled by Peers from across House. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Report Stage, the whole House decides whether any amendments should be made, or new clauses added, to the Bill. Similar amendments and new clauses will be grouped together for debate, to prevent repetition and create a more focused debate. It is at Report Stage that the Government is most frequently defeated on amendments. Once Report Stage has concluded, the Bill will move on to Third Reading, which is scheduled for Monday 12 January.

Grand Committee

15:45: Debate on the July 2025 Report of the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee, Nitrogen: time to reduce, recycle and reuse. The Government has responded to the Committee’s report.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

10:00: Culture, Media and Sport Committee – protecting built heritage: Representatives from Historic England appear followed by senior civil servants.

10:00: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee – public bodies: Joe Hill of Re:State gives evidence.

10:00: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee – reforming the water sector: with the Chief Executive of South East Water and the Chief Inspector at the Drinking Water Inspectorate.

10:30: Foreign Affairs Committee – disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy: Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty and officials from the Cyber, Information Threats and Influence directorates answer MPs’ questions.

14:00: Business and Trade Committee – the Post Office Horizon scandal and justice for the sub-postmasters: former sub-postmasters, their solicitors, and representatives of the Post Office, Fujitsu and the Criminal Cases Review Commission appear followed by Small Business Minister Blair McDougall MP and Justice Minister Alex Davies-Jones MP. It is expected that some questions will focus on what the Post Office and IT provider Fujitsu knew about bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, following new information brought to light by Channel 4 News just before Christmas.

14:30: Justice Committee – access to justice and legal aid: the new Chair of the Bar Council, Kirsty Brimelow KC, will appear alongside Richard Miller of the Law Society and Rohini Jana of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.

14:30: Home Affairs Committee – football policing: the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Craig Guildford, and the Leader of Birmingham City Council, Cllr John Cotton, along with their senior officials, will face questions about the decisions taken over the policing of the football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, at which away supporters were banned from attending.

House of Lords

10:00: Industry and Regulators Committee – regulators and growth: with representatives of the British Standards Institute, Zurich UK and Smith & Nephew.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Details of Wednesday’s business can be found below.

Questions and statements: At 11:30, Northern Ireland Office Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include improving public services, the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, the Defence Industrial Strategy, and the impact of the ECHR on the Belfast Agreement.

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

At 12:30, any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: Labour MP Luke Charters will seek to introduce a Student Finance (Review of Payment Schedules) Bill under the Ten Minute Rule. The Bill would require the Government to review the scheduling of student finance payments to undergraduates and to consider advance payment in certain circumstances.

Opposition Day (Conservatives): This is the 15th of 20 Opposition Days scheduled this Session – days when Government business does not have priority and precedence is instead given to motions tabled by opposition parties. As this is a Conservative Opposition Day, the subject will be chosen by the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch. The specific motion may not be made known until Wednesday’s Order Paper is published.

Adjournment: Labour MP Callum Anderson will give a speech on the potential merits of a new eastern entrance at Bletchley Railway Station. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

09:30: Patient access to tissue freezing for advanced brain cancer treatment, diagnostics and research (House of Commons Library briefing)

11:00: Local government organisation in Bromsgrove (House of Commons Library briefing)

14:30: The UK Town of Culture competition (House of Commons Library briefing)

16:00: Meat exports to the EU

16:30: The Rural Fuel Duty Relief scheme (House of Commons Library briefing)

Delegated Legislation Committees

14:30: draft Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Application to Immigration Officers and Designated Customs Officials in Northern Ireland) and Consequential Amendments Regulations 2026

16:30: draft United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Exclusions from Market Access Principles: Glue Traps) Regulations 2025

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Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on protecting children from computer-generated explicit material; increasing productivity in the public sector; and the Government’s refusal to allow Shamima Begum to return to the UK from Syria. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 5 January.

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill (Third Reading): Following Monday’s Report Stage debate (see above), proceedings are expected to conclude today on this Bill to implement the treaty ending UK sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. If the Bill is amended it will return to the Commons where MPs must consider the changes proposed by Peers. If it is not amended the Bill will be ready for Royal Assent.

Crime and Policing Bill (Committee day 8): This is the eighth of 13 days currently allocated for Committee Stage on the Government’s Bill to reform the criminal justice and policing system. The House has reached Part 7 of the Bill, considering amendments relating to various types of violence and abuse. (House of Lords Library briefing)

At Committee Stage, the House examines the Bill clause-by-clause and decides whether each clause should “stand part” of the Bill. The next clauses and groups of amendments to be debated relate to restrictions on sex offenders obtaining name changes, gender recognition certificates, new driving licences, criminal offences relating to dangerous cycling, protection from stalking, offences relating to encouraging or assisting self-harm, and driving offences.

Because amendments that are voted on and defeated at Committee Stage cannot be moved again at Report Stage, many amendments tabled at Committee Stage are probing amendments, designed to test the opinion of the Government or the mood of the wider House, before deciding whether to put the amendment to a vote at Report Stage.

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Highlights include:

House of Commons

09:15: Transport Committee – Railways Bill: the Rail Minster, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, will give evidence alongside the Chief Executive of Network Rail, Jeremy Westlake.

14:30: Environmental Audit Committee – the Seventh Carbon Budget: with representatives of the Climate Change Committee, Leeds City Council, the University of Bath Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, and Behavioural Insights Ltd (formerly the Cabinet Office “nudge unit”).

House of Lords

10:00: Environment and Climate Change Committee – drought preparedness: witnesses from the Norfolk Environment, Food and Farming, the National Farmers’ Union and East Suffolk Water Abstractors Group.

14:00: Science and Technology Committee – forensic science: with Policing Minister Sarah Jones MP and Justice Minister Sarah Sackman KC MP.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Questions and statements: At 09:30, Transport Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include rail fares, search-and-rescue helicopters, bus services, active travel, and fuel duty.

Any Urgent Questions will follow.

The Leader of the House of Commons, Sir Alan Campbell MP, will present the weekly Business Statement, setting out the business in the House for the next couple of weeks and answering questions about anything that Members might want debated. Any Ministerial Statements will follow.

Select Committee Statement: Matt Western MP, chair of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, will make a statement about the Government’s response last month to the Committee’s September report, Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness. Following the report, the Government set up an Undersea Infrastructure Security Oversight Board to set strategic direction across departments.

Select Committees can ask the Backbench Business Committee for time to make statements on the launch of inquiries or the publication of a report. These statements are usually delivered in the Chamber during backbench business time on Thursdays. A statement consists of a 10-minute speech during which interventions are not permitted, followed by 10 minutes of questions from MPs, to which the Select Committee member responds.

Backbench business: MPs will debate two backbench motions:

Effectiveness of Magnitsky-style sanctions for serious human rights abuses: Conservative Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP will move that the House express its concern about increasing abuses and crimes against humanity, urging the Government to strengthen the Magnitsky sanctions regime. (House of Commons Library briefing)

High-street gambling reform: Labour MP Dawn Butler will lead on a motion calling on the Government to remove the “aim to permit” principle in planning policy, to enable local councils to regulate the spread of gambling premises. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Adjournment: Conservative MP Aphra Brandreth will give a speech on the contribution of post offices in Cheshire. A Minister will then give a response.

Westminster Hall

13:30: The Scottish Affairs Committee’s September report, Problem drug use in Scotland follow-up: Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility (about the centre known as The Thistle) and the Government’s response

15:00: Religious minority persecution in Myanmar

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Introduction of new Peers: At 11:00, two new Labour Peers will be introduced (titles to be announced):

• Peter John, former leader of Southwark Council and former chair of the London Councils group

• Brenda Dacres, the elected executive Mayor of the London Borough of Lewisham.

Oral questions: Peers will then question Ministers for 40 minutes, on involving civil society and faith-based organisations in reaching net zero; bus safety; and progress towards the 1.5 million new homes target. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 6 January.

Main business: The House will consider four issues:

• broadcasting in the United Kingdom (House of Lords Library briefing);

• visa waivers and the supply chain of qualified foreign language teachers in schools and universities (House of Lords Library briefing);

• a motion from Lord Falconer proposing that the House resolve that "in order to allow the House to complete its scrutiny of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and return it to the Commons in reasonable time before the end of the current parliamentary session, further time should be provided for consideration of the Bill" (for more on this see Friday's House of Lords business below); and

• Question for Short Debate on UK responsibility to ensure mining companies which operated in former British colonies address pollution caused by those activities (House of Lords Library briefing).

Grand Committee: From 13:00, Peers will consider four Questions for Short Debate:

• on steps being taken to ensure that advanced AI development remains safe and controllable, given the recent threat update warning from the Director General of MI5

• on how the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 will deliver the targets of the Environment Act 2021

• on the contribution that trade with Israel makes to the UK economy (House of Lords Library briefing)

• on plans to include wider societal and economic benefits within the vaccine health technology assessment, rather than limiting evaluation solely to clinical outcomes (House of Lords Library briefing).

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Only one Select Committee is scheduled to meet in public today:

House of Commons

10:00: Public Accounts Committee – BBC World Service: with BBC Director General Tim Davie, BBC News and Current Affairs interim CEO Jonathan Munro, and BBC Global News and World Service interim director Fiona Crack.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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The House will not be sitting.

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Private Members’ Bills (PMBs): The House will meet at 10:00 to further consider non-Government Bills. Only one Bill is scheduled:

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Committee, day 5): This is the fifth day of Committee Stage for the Bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.

At Committee Stage, the House must decide whether each clause and schedule should remain in the Bill, and whether any amendments should be made or new clauses and schedules added.

As we outlined on our blog, Peers have tabled more amendments to this Bill than for any other in the past 20 years. At Committee Stage, amendments can be grouped and debated together to keep the discussion focussed and coherent and to avoid unnecessary repetition. To date, the Government Whips have organised the amendments into 84 groups, of which just 10 have been debated.

• First sitting (14 November 2025): 2 groups;

• Second sitting (21 November 2025): 1 group;

• Third sitting (5 December 2025): 3 groups;

• Fourth sitting (12 December 2025): 4 groups.

Ten sitting Fridays have been scheduled for consideration of the Bill between now and April (every Friday up to 6 February, then continuing on 27 February, 13, 20 and 27 March and 24 April.) It is not yet clear how these days will be allocated between Committee Stage, Report Stage and any subsequent stages. However, even if all ten days were devoted exclusively to Committee Stage, the current pace – advancing by at most four groups per sitting – would fall far below what is needed to complete the remaining groups in time.

Lord Falconer has set a target of debating at least ten groups at each sitting, but each time the House has fallen significantly short. At the end of the last sitting (Friday 12 December), the Government Chief Whip, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, said that four groups was “still slow progress” and urged “that all noble Lords should reflect on that fact”.

If the House agrees to Lord Falconer’s motion on Thursday (see above), the Whips will need to arrange additional time for consideration of the Bill before the end of the current parliamentary Session, over and above the Friday sittings already scheduled. This could involve the House sitting earlier on certain days – for example, as has occasionally happened on Wednesday mornings this Session to consider government bills – or reallocating time that would normally be reserved for Government business. If the motion were to pass and no business announcement is made on Thursday an announcement may instead be made by the Chief Whip at some point during today’s proceedings.

A new marshalled list (a numbered list which sets out all the amendments to reflect their position in relation to where they apply to the Bill) will be published before today’s sitting starts (under the Amendment Paper section of the Published tab on the Bill page on the parliamentary website). An updated list of the groups of amendments to be debated today may also be published and Lord Falconer will indicate how many of these groups he hopes will be debated today.

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Both Houses will resume at 14:30 on Monday 12 January 2026. Our next Bulletin will therefore be published on Sunday 11 January.

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