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UK E-petition debate relating to the sale of fireworks – Monday 19 January 2025.

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to the sale of fireworks.

Robbie Moore 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/738192
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732559

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/

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

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UK Dan Jarvis MBE MP questioned by Home Affairs Committee over combatting new forms of extremism

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

As part of its inquiry into combatting new forms of extremism, the Home Affairs Committee questions the following witnesses:

Dame Sara Khan DBE – Former Counter Extremism Commissioner 2018-2021; former Independent Adviser for Social Cohesion and Resilience for the UK Government 2021-2024

Dan Jarvis MBE MP – Minister for Security at Home Office
Jonathan Emmett – Director for CONTEST & Homeland Security Strategy at Home Office

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/25797/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

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UK Ben Wallace and Grant Shapps questioned on Afghan Data Breach – Defence Committee

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

The Defence Committee questions two former Defence Sectretaries and the former Minister of State for the Armed Forces on the 2022 data breach relating to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP).

Witnesses:

Rt Hon Sir Ben Wallace, former Secretary of State for Defence

Rt Hon James Heappey, former Minister of State for the Armed Forces

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps, former Secretary of State for Defence

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/26228/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

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Special Address by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at Davos 2026

Source: European Commission (video statements)

On 20 January 2026, Commission President shares a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos
Under the theme, ‘A Spirit of Dialogue’, Davos 2026 provides an impartial platform to connect leaders to confront shared challenges and drive innovations defining the future.
Commission President’s focus will be on topics such as: ‘How can we cooperate in a more contested world?’

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UK Lords urgent question on Greenland and proposed US trade tariffs

Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)

In light of recent developments in relation to Greenland, members will press the government in an urgent question on its assessment of the impact of proposed US trade tariffs on the UK economy, and what diplomatic efforts they are making to ensure the sovereign rights of nations to their territories.

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Davos 2026: Day 1, with Francine Lacqua

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Francine Lacqua, anchor and editor-at-large at Bloomberg TV, and host of a new podcast, Leaders, joins us to look ahead at Day 1 and the rest of the week, as the Annual Meeting 2026 opens in Davos

Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2026 at wef.ch/wef26 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF26.
Follow our live blog on Day 1: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/live-from-davos-2026-day-1-what-to-know

Related podcasts:
Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos ‘spirit of dialogue’ can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to ‘OT’: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/global-cooperation-barometer-2026/

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United Nations Association-UK | President of the General Assembly | United Nations

Source: United Nations (video statements)

The President of the General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, said, “we meet in challenging times, but if our predecessors could emerge from devastation with the resolve to chart a better path forward, how can we credibly argue that we are incapable of doing the same?”

Baerbock said, “we need to summon the same resolve found by the delegates in this Hall eighty years ago, to form a cross-regional alliance to defend our international rules-based order and the Charter every single day.”

She said, “how many blows can an international order, can our United Nations endure? Or can any country truly sleep in peace if we simply accept that more and more Member States, including some Permanent Members of the Security Council, violate the Charter’s core principles? When compromise shifts from mutual accommodation to the slow erosion, or the deliberate dismantling of the very foundations of this institution, it is no longer a compromise but compromising.”

At the beginning of 2026, the PGA said, “we are not only standing at a crossroads, but history will show whether we find the same courage and determination as our founding fathers and our founding mothers did 80 years ago.”

Organised by the United Nations Association-UK, Saturday’s anniversary event gathered over 1,000 delegates from across the world. The event also marks the 80th anniversary of the first UN Security Council, which took place on 17 January 1946 at nearby Church House.

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