Reflecting on the Independent Water Commission, headed up by Sir Jon Cunliffe, which two weeks ago published its interim ...

Members of the House of Lords examine the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill at committee stage on Thursday 26.

Questions, bills and debates: discover questions, debates and legislation in the House of Lords ...

Parliament is made up of three central elements: the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the monarchy. The main business of Parliament takes place in the two Houses. Generally the decisions made ...

‘Failing’ water sector needs ‘root and branch reform’ to address culture that is ‘deaf’ to ‘crisis’ A failing water sector in which “water companies increasingly look like financial institutions ...

If the Elizabeth Tower had not been urgently conserved, there was a risk that the clock mechanism might fail or that the building will become too costly or difficult to repair. Completed in 1859, the ...

Members of the House of Lords continue their detailed examination of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill at committee stage on Wednesday 18 June ...

A by-election does not have to take place if an MP changes political party. Until an election, an MP of the same party in a neighbouring constituency manages constituency matters. The Chief Whip of ...

The Palace of Westminster was designed not just to be a working building for the Lords and Commons but also to offer a striking panorama of British history. Everywhere in the building there are ...

Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946) was elected to Parliament in the 1929 ‘Flapper' election, as an Independent MP. Rathbone established the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees in 1938 as a vehicle for her ...

Extract from a verse written by John Wilson McLaren to commemorate the journey he and other members of the Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage made from Scotland to Westminster in 1913.