The House of Commons adjourned on Thursday 22 May for Whitsun recess and will next sit on Monday 2 June at 2.30pm. Business scheduled in the week returning from recess: ...

The 2024-25 session began with the State Opening of Parliament on 17 July 2024. The exact pattern of recesses can change and is normally slightly different for the two Houses.

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The Bill of Rights 1689 is an iron gall ink manuscript on parchment. It is an original Act of the English Parliament and has been in the custody of Parliament since its creation. The Bill firmly ...

When was the last general election? The last general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019. On what dates did previous general elections take place? The 2017 General Election - polling day ...

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At a conference hosted in London by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons – the representatives heard that AI could have multiple applications in Parliaments.

The UK public elects 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and propose new laws, and can scrutinise government policies by ...

Magna Carta is Latin for ‘great charter' and the term was first used in 1217 to distinguish it from the Charter of the Forest, a document that also set out limits on the king's administration, this ...

Members of the House of Lords continue their detailed examination of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in committee stage.

The plans for post-war secondary education in Britain aimed to remove the inequalities which remained in the system. The proportion of 'free places' at grammar schools in England and Wales increased ...