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🧵An interesting article by Lara Spirit of @financialtimes.com highlighting the need to improve the way MPs can challenge and improve legislation. There are 2 glaring examples coming up this week of some of the problems with the system. 1/ www.thetimes.com/article/4861...

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MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament? đź‘® MPs debate Crime and Policing Bill đź”´ Peers debate House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Details of each bill, and proposed amendments, belowđź”˝ buff.ly/06sxPdl

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🧵Today MPs will be asked to approve billions of pounds in the Government’s updated departmental spending plans - known as the Supplementary Estimates – for this 2024-25 financial year. These are the first spending plans introduced by the Labour Government ...1/

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Should an Act of Parliament allow for premeditated non-compliance? Can a statutory duty imposed on Government by Parliament be overturned by a ministerial statement? And when a law’s purpose is abandoned, should it be amended or repealed? www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/interna...

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🚨 NEW PODCAST EPISODE🚨 Parliament passed an Act legally requiring the UK to spend 0.7% on international aid—so how can ministers cut it with just a statement? 🤔 Will MPs get a vote? And why the Foreign Office Estimate debate next week now matters more than ever. ⬇️

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WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today? ➡️ Keir Starmer will face questions from MPs at #PMQs ➡️ Opposition Day debates on Family Businesses and the British Indian Ocean Territory ➡️ Peers debate the controversial Product Regulation & Metrology Bill https://buff.ly/41y8rbZ

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🧵UK international aid cuts & parliamentary scrutiny – time for change? With the announcement today that the international aid budget is to be cut again to fund increased defence spending, what does this mean for the future of the House of Commons International Development Select Committee?

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🧵Tonight in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk MPs will pave the way for legislation to remove a legal barrier preventing Roman Catholics from holding the office of Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 1/

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