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UK E-petition debate relating to support & accommodation for asylum seekers – Monday 20 October 2025.

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to support & accommodation for asylum seekers.

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

Read the petitions:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/705383
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/718406

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/

Stay up-to-date
Follow the Committee on Twitter for real-time updates on its work: https://www.twitter.com/hocpetitions

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqocyL8XpV8

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UK The National Security Strategy – Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The cross-party Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy will explore how the UK can help sustain nuclear stability amid increasing concern about adversary intentions, US deterrence and risks around unintended escalation.

The session will also cover the UK’s relationships with India and countries in the Middle East in the context of growing challenges around the trade-offs between security and economic relationships, and the transfer of sensitive technology.

The session forms part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into the UK’s new National Security Strategy, published earlier this year.

Witnesses will include security and geopolitics experts and former senior officials with experience working at NATO, the US State Department, India’s diplomatic service and think tanks.

Members of the Committee are likely to ask witnesses:

• How the UK should respond to the risks of nuclear proliferation and concerns about safeguarding the credibility of the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent;

• The options and risks around reducing strategic dependence on the United States;

• What role the UK could play in containing Iranian activity, and how the Government should prioritise across the Euro-Atlantic, Indo Pacific and Middle East regions;

• How the changing security environment in the Indo-Pacific and Middle East is likely to affect the UK’s relationships in the regions.

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

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UK 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister’s Questions – 15 October 2025

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

Watch PMQs with British Sign Language (BSL) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnwvUmiiqY

Prime Minister’s Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.

In most cases, the session starts with a routine ‘open question’ from an MP about the Prime Minister’s engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.

The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.

Want to find out more about what’s happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:

X: https://www.x.com/HouseofCommons
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukhouseofcommons
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTU1ExId7O4

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UK 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister’s Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) – 15 October 2025

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

Prime Minister’s Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer MP, or a nominated minister.

In most cases, the session starts with a routine ‘open question’ from an MP about the Prime Minister’s engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance.

The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch MP, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. If another minister takes the place of the Prime Minister, opposition parties will usually nominate a shadow minister to ask the questions.

Want to find out more about what’s happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on:

X: https://www.x.com/HouseofCommons
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukhouseofcommons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukhouseofcommons

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