Monday 19 January
No votes scheduled
Tuesday 20 January
Glaucoma Care (England) Bill
Concerns the detection, treatment, and monitoring of glaucoma (a degenerative eye disease) by optometrists in England. Ten minute rule motion presented by Shockat Adam. More information not yet available.
Sentencing Bill – consideration of Lords amendments
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Introduces wide-ranging reforms to the sentencing framework, implementing some of the recommendations in the recent Independent Sentencing Review. Includes a presumption that custodial sentences of 12 months or under will be suspended unless there are exceptional circumstances. Introduces new orders, including requiring offenders who earn enough to pay a portion of their income as a fine each month, and banning offenders from going to places such as pubs, bars, and nightclubs.
Draft bill (PDF) / Commons Library briefing
Holocaust Memorial Bill – consideration of Lords amendments
Applies to: England, Wales
Authorises spending to build a National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Removes land restrictions to allow it to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens next to Parliament.
Draft bill (PDF)
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill – consideration of Lords amendments
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Implements into domestic law the agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. Ends the UK’s sovereignty over the islands and removes its status as a British overseas territory.
Draft bill (PDF)
Wednesday 21 January
Rail Passengers’ Charter Bill
Establishes a Rail Passengers’ Charter, which sets out guarantees that rail operators must provide and targets they must meet. Ten minute rule motion presented by Olly Glover.
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill – committee of the whole House, report stage, and 3rd reading
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Introduces National Insurance on pension contributions above £2,000 a year made via salary sacrifice (where an employee agrees to a lower salary in return for their employer paying the difference directly into their pension). Currently, employers and employees who take part in a salary sacrifice scheme pay no NI. Comes into force in April 2029.
Draft bill (PDF)
Thursday 22 January
No votes scheduled
Friday 23 January
No votes scheduled
Last week’s votes
Passed
- Finance (No. 2) Bill – goes to report stage
- Emergency and Life-Saving Skills (Schools) Bill – goes to second reading
- Banks (Financial Exclusion and Access to Finance) Bill – goes to second reading
Click here to read details of the bills in last week’s newsletter.
Better late than never! I’ll try to post these each week.
Holocaust Memorial Bill – consideration of Lords amendments
Applies to: England, Wales
Authorises spending to build a National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Removes land restrictions to allow it to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens next to Parliament.Clearly we need MPs and the government to learn the lessons of the second world war because they’ve been dragging their heels over a literal genocide in Gaza for the past year and a half.
Somehow I don’t think that’s the point though…
