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UK Pillar 3 of the NSS – Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
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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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UK Faulty energy installations – Public Accounts Committee
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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
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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.
UK 🔴 PMQs LIVE: Prime Minister’s Questions – 12 November 2025
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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.
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UK 🔴 LIVE: Prime Minister’s Questions with British Sign Language (BSL) – 12 November 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.
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UK We will remember them 🌺
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Since opening the House of Commons Gardens of Remembrance last week, they have been filling with messages of remembrance.
Representatives from across the parliamentary community, Commonwealth, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have paid their respects.
UK Children’s TV and video content – Culture, Media and Sport Committee
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The Children’s Media Foundation and the Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce appears before MPs in the opening evidence session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s inquiry into children’s TV and video content.
UK Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, Part 1 – Justice Committee
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The Justice Committee will hear from Sir Brian Leveson during an evidence session in Parliament examining the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts Part 1.
Discussion is expected to focus on the recommendations outlined in the ‘Leveson Review’ Part 1 published in July, relating to the Magistrates’ Court, the Crown Court and the right to trial by jury.
In December 2024, the then Lord Chancellor in a written statement to the House acknowledged that the justice system was ‘in crisis with huge delays to hearings and victims left in limbo waiting to see justice done’. The statement announced Sir Brian Leveson would ‘undertake a review of our criminal courts to consider how we can speed up the hearing of cases’.