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Lords HLWS301
Business Rates Relief for Pubs, Clubs and Live Music Venues
The government has today announced that pubs, clubs and live music venues will receive a further 20% cut to their business rates bills from April 2027.Building on the work done at the last Budget a...
Made: 2026-07-23
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield
Lord Wilson of Sedgefield
Lords Spokesperson
Lab
Department: Treasury
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Lords HLWS300
Bus Fares
I wish to inform the House that the Government is today announcing single bus tickets will be capped at £2 in England outside London from 1 January until 31 December 2027. This measure will mean mi...
Made: 2026-07-22
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State for Transport
Lab
Department: Department for Transport
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Lords HLWS299
Electricity VAT Cut
The government has today announced immediate action to cut VAT on electricity bills to give millions of households breathing space on the cost of living.Domestic electricity is currently subject to...
Made: 2026-07-21
Lord Stockwood
Lord Stockwood
The Minister for Investment
Lab
Department: Treasury
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Lords HLWS298
Machinery of Government Changes
I am making this statement on behalf of the Prime Minister to bring to the attention of the House the following changes to the Machinery of Government.Today, we are fundamentally rewiring the state...
Made: 2026-07-21
Baroness Smith of Basildon
Baroness Smith of Basildon
Lord Privy Seal
Lab
Department: Leader of the House of Lords
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Lords HLWS297
Public Health measures
My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention (Sharon Hodgson MP) has made the following statement:Today I am publishing the government's response...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Merron
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women's Health and Mental Health
Lab
Department: Department of Health and Social Care
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Lords HLWS296
Afghanistan
My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hamish Falconer MP) has today made the following statement:Today I am updati...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Minister of State for International Development and Africa
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Lords HLWS295
Local Planning Authority Capacity
My Honourable Friend the Minister of State for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook MP) has today made the following statement:It is essential that local planning authorities (LPAs) have the res...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Lords HLWS294
Annual Report on Special Advisers 2026
My Rt. Hon Friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister at the Cabinet Office, the Rt Hon. Darren Jones MP, h...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office
Lab
Department: Cabinet Office
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Lords HLWS293
Publication of the Border Security Commander’s Annual Report 2025-26
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Shabana Mahmood) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:Today I can announce that the first Border Security Comm...
Made: 2026-07-16
Lord Hanson of Flint
Lord Hanson of Flint
The Minister of State, Home Office
Lab
Department: Home Office
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Lords HLWS292
The FCDO’s planned ODA programme country and regional allocations 2026/27 – 2028/29
The FCDO ODA programme allocations I set out on 19 March 2026 (HCWS1425) reflect how we are modernising and improving our approach to international development, following a year spent reviewing our...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Minister of State for International Development and Africa
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Lords HLWS291
0.7 per cent of GNI on ODA target 2025
The FCDO’s Annual Report & Accounts 2025-26 reports that in 2025, on a provisional basis, the United Kingdom did not meet its target to spend the equivalent of 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Minister of State for International Development and Africa
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Lords HLWS290
Macolin Convention
My Honourable Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific (Seema Malhotra MP) has today made the following statement:On 6 December 2018, the UK signed the Council of Europe C...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Minister of State for International Development and Africa
Lab
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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Lords HLWS289
Initial Response to the Cranston Inquiry
My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Heidi Alexander), has made the following Ministerial Statement.On 5 February 2026 Sir Ross Cranston published the Cranston Inquiry’...
Made: 2026-07-16
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State for Transport
Lab
Department: Department for Transport
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Lords HLWS288
Local Government Reorganisation
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Steve Reed OBE MP) has today made the following statement:This Government is driving the most ambiti...
Made: 2026-07-16
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Lab
Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Lords HLWS287
Report by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office
My rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Shabana Mahmood) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:This statement updates the House on the Investigatory Po...
Made: 2026-07-16
Lord Hanson of Flint
Lord Hanson of Flint
The Minister of State, Home Office
Lab
Department: Home Office
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