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Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to animal testing.

Irene Campbell MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will send a Minister to respond.

Read the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736578

Find petitions you agree with, and sign them: https://petition.parliament.uk/

What are petition debates?

Petition debates are ‘general’ debates which allow MPs from all parties to discuss the important issues raised by one or more petitions, and put their concerns to Government Ministers.

Petition debates don’t end with a vote to implement the request of a petition. This means that MPs will not vote on the issues raised in the petition at the end of the debate.

The Petitions Committee can only schedule debates on petitions to parliament started on petition.parliament.uk

Find out more about how petition debates work: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/content/194347/how-petitions-debates-work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VemDcod-F3E

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Home Affairs Committee question the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips MP, in a session focusing on the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy.

Witnesses:

Jess Phillips MP – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls) at Home Office
Gisela Carr – Deputy Director for the Interpersonal Abuse Unit at Home Office
Luke Hughes – Head of the Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation Response Unit at Home Office

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/26995/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs9Y50QNJ4w

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Education Committee hears evidence on screen time and social media from those representing lived experience of online harms, as well as teaching unions and the social media company Snapchat.

Witnesses:

Esther Ghey – Founder and Director at Brianna Ghey Legacy Project
Mr Andy Burrows – CEO at Molly Rose Foundation
Rani Govender – Associate Head of Policy and Public Affairs at National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

Daniel Kebede – General Secretary at National Education Union (NEU)
TBC – tbc at Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)

Jacqueline Beauchere – Senior Director, Global Head of Platform Safety at Snapchat

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/27175/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTc7aKhNHA

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy hears evidence from Lord Robertson, a former UK Defence Secretary and NATO Secretary General, and Dr Fiona Hill, an expert in foreign policy and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The session comes after Lord Robertson warned in a speech on 14 April of a “corrosive complacency” in Britain’s political leadership, where “lip service is paid to the risks, the threats, the bright red signals of danger but even a promised national conversation about defence can’t be started”.

Witnesses:

Dr Fiona Hill – Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution
The Rt Hon. the Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/27157/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb0x3eHinjA