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UK E-petition debate relating to funding & care for people with Parkinson’s – Monday 17 November 2025.
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to funding and care for people with Parkinson’s.
Paul Davies 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/713714
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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UK E-petition debate relating to penalties for social media offences – Monday 17 November 2025.
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to penalties for offences arising from social media posts.
Jamie Stone 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/728715
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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UK 🔴 LIVE: 6th UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly Plenary Session – Monday 17th November 2025
UK How do we record what is said in Parliament? ✍️
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Hansard reporter Hannah explains the process.
Watch the full explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPSxMh-l7o
UK Marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War | Elizabeth Tower Remembrance Projection 2025
UK Pillar 3 of the NSS – Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
In this session, MPs and Peers will examine the Government’s ambition to increase the UK’s ‘sovereign and asymmetric capabilities’, set out in Pillar 3 of the National Security Strategy (NSS).
Committee members are likely to ask what these terms mean in practice, what challenges the Government may come up against in trying to deliver them, and whether both the NSS and Defence Industrial Strategy give clear enough direction to industry.
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Unbox this year’s free kit with Jamie Stone MP, Chair of the House of Commons Petitions Committee. 🎁
Learn more and sign up here: https://www.ukparliamentweek.org/en/
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UK Faulty energy installations – Public Accounts Committee
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
In this session, MPs will explore why there were such high levels of poor quality and faulty installations of insulation under the government’s Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, which was meant to tackle fuel poverty and reduce emissions through home retrofits.
Tens of thousands of these homes now need repairs to tackle health and safety and damp and mould risks. Almost all (98%, up to 23k) of homes with external insulation, and a little under a third (29%, up to 13k) of homes with internal insulation installed under the ECO are now estimated to need fixing. At September 2025, less than 10% of the homes estimated to be affected had been fully remediated.
The Committee will first hear from Simon Ayers MBE (Chief Executive Officer of TrustMark) and Matt Gantley (Chief Executive of UKAS). The second panel will consist of Jeremy Pocklington CB (DESNZ Permanent Secretary), Clive Maxwell CB CBE (DESNZ Second Permanent Secretary) Deborah Chittenden (Director – Net Zero Buildings: Transformation at DESNZ), and Jonathan Brearley (Chief Executive Officer of Ofgem), and Kiera Schoenemann (Director of Audit and Compliance, Delivery and Schemes at Ofgem).
UK Budget 2025: Property taxes – Treasury Committee
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
TV presenter and property expert, Kirstie Allsopp, appears alongside a senior executive from Zoopla, a former advisor to Rishi Sunak, and a property taxes expert from the Chartered Institute of Taxation as the Treasury Committee continues its series looking ahead to the upcoming Budget.
During the session, the Committee explore a range of potential property tax changes available to the Chancellor at her November Budget.
MPs are likely to question witnesses on the potential drawbacks of the current stamp duty land tax system and how it could be improved. MPs are also likely to examine Professor Leunig’s proposal to replace Stamp Duty and Council Tax with new annual taxes, given the level of media speculation that this is one of the measures being considered by the Chancellor.