Motion for an unopposed return: This motion will not be debated or voted upon. It is a procedural mechanism used to require the Government to present the Account of the Contingencies Fund 2024–25 to Parliament. When papers are requested from departments led by a Secretary of State, a motion for an unopposed return takes the form of a Humble Address to His Majesty. However, this motion is not a Humble Address because the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not a Secretary of State.

Normally, departmental spending is authorised through the annual Estimates process. However, when urgent needs arise and waiting for that Estimates process would be impractical, the Treasury may authorise temporary cash advances from the Contingencies Fund. These advances bridge short-term funding gaps until formal parliamentary approval can be secured, either through a Supply and Appropriations Bill following scrutiny of the Main Estimates or the Supplementary Estimates or another piece of primary legislation.

Departments must notify Parliament in advance when requesting an advance from the Fund, typically via a Written Ministerial Statement. In the 2024–25 financial year, there were at least 16 such statements, totalling billions of pounds and covering a range of urgent funding needs, including support for casework relating to the Post Office Horizon scandal; payments to the Infected Blood Compensation Authority; initial funding under the Financial Assistance to Ukraine Act 2025 and costs incurred by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in relation to the general election. The Comptroller and Auditor General audits the Contingencies Fund accounts. His report, presented to Parliament alongside the accounts under this motion, provides independent scrutiny.

Questions and statements: At 14:30, Education Ministers will respond to MPs’ questions. Topics include antisemitism on university campuses, the impact of National Insurance rises on schools, the use of smart phones in school, the school estate, school-based nurseries, children with special educational needs, funding for apprenticeships, outdoor education provision, and children in foster care.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow. Ministers are expected to make statements regarding two international developments: the Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation; and the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday (12 June), which claimed the lives of dozens of British citizens shortly after take-off on the flight bound for Gatwick Airport. Media reports indicate that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP will also make a statement regarding the publication of a report on grooming gangs by Baroness (Louise) Casey of Blackstock. The report follows her audit into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. The Prime Minister confirmed at the weekend that the Government will establish a statutory inquiry into the issue, as recommended by Baroness Casey.

Main business: A motion in relation to the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS). The ICGS was established in July 2018 to address complaints of inappropriate behaviour in Parliament such as bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct. In 2023 an independent review of the ICGS, undertaken by Paul Kernaghan CBE, was launched. The resulting report, published in May 2024, recommended a new governance model, including:

• the production of an ICGS Policy Framework (outlining the definitions and parameters of the scheme) and ICGS Procedures (setting out the detailed processes to be followed under the scheme); and

• the re-establishment of the existing ICGS Assurance Group as a permanent ICGS Assurance Board, with responsibility for approving and amending ICGS Procedures, holding the scheme’s leadership to account, and scrutinising its performance.

In December 2024 the House of Commons Commission produced a report setting out how the proposals might be implemented, but at its meeting last month it failed to agree a way forward. The Commission’s minutes note that “in the absence of consensus the Government planned to put those proposals to the House”. The Shadow Leader of the House, Jesse Norman MP, asked for it to be recorded in the minutes that the Conservative Party does not support the proposals without a requirement that changes to ICGS procedures are first subject to a motion of the whole House, rather than agreed by the ICGS Assurance Board.

Today’s motion seeks to implement the recommendations of the ICGS review. Specifically, it would:

• give effect to the ICGS Policy Framework from 14 July 2025, incorporating references to the detailed processes that will be set out separately in the ICGS Procedures ; and

• establish the ICGS Assurance Board, with the draft terms of reference published on 17 December 2024. Membership of the Board would be the Clerk Assistants of both Houses, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, the Chair of the Independent Expert Panel, an MP from the House of Commons Commission, a Peer from the House of Lords Commission, a representative of the House of Lords Conduct Committee, and a representative of the human resources department of each House.

The Conservatives have tabled five amendments to the motion:

• Amendment (a): this would remove eight paragraphs from the proposed ICGS Policy Framework. It would thereby prevent collective complaints, bar allegations from being considered if they are or have been considered in a criminal investigation, remove the requirement that a complaint must be “deliberately false” to be considered malicious or vexatious, prevent any new complaints which are substantially the same as one which has been withdrawn, prohibit the ICGS from pausing and reviewing an investigation, and prohibit anonymous reports.

• Amendment (b): this would require the Assurance Board to include two MPs elected by the House of Commons rather than one MP who is a member of and appointed by the House of Commons Commission.

• Amendment (c): this would require the Assurance Board to include two Peers elected by the House of Lords rather than a Peer who is a member of the House of Lords Commission.

• Amendment (d): this would remove the representatives of each House’s human resources department from the Board.

• Amendment (e): this would remove the provision giving the Board the power to approve changes to ICGS Procedures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

General debate: Windrush Day 2025. The subject of this debate was chosen by the Backbench Business Committee. It was requested by the Labour MP Helen Hayes, who in her application argued that it would be “an opportunity for Members from across the House to pay tribute to the contribution of members of the Windrush generation and their descendants to our communities, our economy, our public services, our culture and our national life”. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Committee membership: There is a motion to change the membership of the Scottish Affairs Committee, replacing the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn MP with the SNP MP Dave Doogan.

Adjournment: The Labour MP Irene Campbell has the adjournment debate on phasing out animal experiments in medical research.

Westminster Hall: MPs will debate e-petition 706302, which calls for an end to the use of cages and crates for all farmed animals. The petition has acquired around 105,000 signatures. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Legislative committees:

• A programming sub-committee will meet to agree the timetable for the Public Bill Committee appointed to consider the Victims and Courts Bill. The sub-committee will also agree the list of witnesses to give oral evidence on Tuesday, though in practice this will have been agreed the Government and Opposition Whips in advance.

• Delegated Legislation Committees meeting today: to consider the draft Casinos (Gaming Machines and Mandatory Conditions) Regulation 2025.

Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on grassroots cross-community movements in Israel; skills shortages and workforce gaps in adult social care; proposals for a social energy tariff; and the defence industrial base.

Main business: Employment Rights Bill (Committee Stage, day 9). Committee stage has now extended well beyond the Government Whips’ original plan to conclude proceedings by the seventh sitting on Thursday 5 June. Slower than expected progress in the early sittings led to the addition of an eighth sitting last week. As delays continued, two more sittings were scheduled, one for today and another on Wednesday. Ten sittings will make this Committee Stage by far the longest for any bill this session; no other bill has required more than seven sittings. Despite the extended timetable, 33 groups of amendments still remain to be considered. At the most recent sitting last week, Government Whips had anticipated progress through 18 of those groups – but that target was not met. As a result, further sittings may be necessary to complete the Committee Stage.

The next groups of amendments to be debated relate to ballots in the workplace, actions short of a strike, unlawful inducements not to be a trade union member, the impact of the repeal of the Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Act 2023, applying a ‘growth duty’ to the trade union regulator, requiring unions to present employer offers to the membership, and the impact on small businesses. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Grand Committee: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Committee Stage, day 4). Peers will continue their clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Bill and consideration of amendments, in the fourth of six scheduled sittings. The final day in Committee is currently scheduled for Wednesday 25 June. The next amendments to be considered relate primarily to propose new powers to require third parties such as banks to scan accounts and provide information in relation to social security fraud. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Foreign Affairs Committee (13:30): Médecins Sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and Medical Aid for Palestinians will give evidence on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

• Public Accounts Committee (15:30): The Permanent Secretary and other senior officials at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will give evidence on the MoD’s oversight of Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations. This follows on from a report published in March by the National Audit Office.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

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Private Bills: Royal Albert Hall Bill (Second Reading). For the seventh time, Sir Christopher Chope has signalled his intention to block the Royal Albert Hall Bill from progressing without debate. He has once again used the procedural device of tabling a motion to delay the Bill’s Second Reading by six months – a tactic used to halt Private Bills. For more on this unusual procedure – and the specifics of this case – see our previous Bulletin. We also explored the Royal Albert Hall Bill in depth in a recent episode of our Parliament Matters podcast.

Questions and statements: Shortly after 11:30, Health and Social Care Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include hospital repairs, rural pharmacies, the medicine supply chain, mental health services in rural areas, waste in the NHS, A&E waiting times, and access to GPs.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Labour MP Jen Craft will seek the House’s support to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Registration of Births (Inclusion of Deceased Parents) Bill. This proposed legislation would enable the inclusion of a parent’s details on a child’s birth certificate where that parent has died before the birth of the child. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

Main business: Crime and Policing Bill (Report Stage, day 1). This is the first of two days scheduled for the Bill’s Report Stage and Third Reading, with day 2 taking place tomorrow. The proceedings will be divided in accordance with a programme motion, which will be agreed at the start of the debate on the Bill.

The programme motion will split the proceedings up in the following way:

• Day 1, part 1 (until 16:00, at the latest): New clauses and new schedules tabled by the Government; and amendments to clauses 1 to 165 and schedules 1 to 18 (other than amendments relating to abortion).

• Day 1, part 2 (until 19:00, at the latest): Any new clauses, new schedules and amendments that relate to abortion.

• Day 2, part 1 (until 18:00, at the latest): Remaining new clauses and new schedules; and amendments to clauses 166 to 172, other than amendments relating to abortion.

• Day 2, part 2 (until 19:00, at the latest): Third Reading.

The Government has, as usual, tabled a significant number of changes to its own Bill. Of those to be discussed during Day 1, part 1, a number were summarised in a ministerial letter, including:

• replacing offences in the soon to be repealed 1824 Vagrancy Act in relation to begging and trespass;

• creating new offences of threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour towards an emergency worker;

• creating new offences of coerced internal concealment of an item for a criminal purpose;

• adding the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square to the list of specified war memorials that it will be a criminal offence to climb on;

• creating a new ministerial power to give directions to critical police undertakings to promote efficiency and effectiveness, to enable the establishment of a new National Centre of Policing;

• clarifying and expanding the power of police to access electronic data stored on the cloud in online accounts, known as remotely stored electronic data, rather than on a device; and

• removing the three-year time limit for victims of child sexual abuse to bring personal injury claims against those responsible.

Other matters that could be selected for a decision by the Speaker include amendments that have acquired some cross-party support, such as:

• Labour MP Sarah Champion’s amendment to require sex offenders to notify the police of an intention to change their name seven days before applying;

• Conservative MP Joe Robertson’s amendment to expand the offence of administering harmful substances to include those who do so being reckless; and

• Labour MP Kirith Entwistle’s amendment to treat a history of abuse as an aggravating factor for encouraging or assisting self-harm and as creating liability for murder in cases of suicide.

One of the most contentious elements in today’s proceedings concerns proposals to decriminalise abortion – an issue not included in the Government’s original Bill. Two Labour backbench MPs have tabled separate and conflicting amendments. Although there is some question about whether the proposals fall within scope of the Bill, such is the level of political and public interest that up to three hours has been ring-fenced at the end of today to consider the propositions. Following the conclusion of any votes at 16:00 in relation to the part 1 provisions, the House will thus move on to a debate on any new clauses, new schedules, and amendments relating to this issue.

The two conflicting proposals are:

• New Clause 1 (Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour): Signed by 162 MPs, this would establish that a woman cannot commit a criminal offence under abortion law for actions in relation to her own pregnancy. It would explicitly remove liability under two key provisions of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 – administering drugs or using instruments to procure an abortion, or procuring drugs for that purpose – as well as under the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, which criminalises ending the life of a child capable of being born alive.

• New Clause 20 (Stella Creasy, Labour): Signed by 108 MPs, this would require the Government to implement the recommendations in paragraphs 85 and 86 of the 2018 “CEDAW report” (Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women). It proposes using regulations to amend the criminal law, including a full repeal of abortion-related offences in the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, along with any corresponding updates needed to the Abortion Act 1967. Unlike New Clause 1, this measure would also decriminalise third parties – such as healthcare professionals – who assist in providing abortions.

The disagreement between Antoniazzi and Creasy over their competing abortion proposals was recently aired in public during a Westminster Hall debate on an e-petition to decriminalise abortion, where both MPs openly criticised each other’s approach.

Another new clause, tabled by the Conservative MP Dr Caroline Johnson, would make it a legal requirement for a pregnant woman to have an in-person consultation with a doctor before being allowed to self-administer abortion medication. The clause specifically rules out telephone and online consultations.

The votes on any of these new clauses selected by the Speaker for a vote will take place at the latest at 19:00. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Adjournment: The Labour MP Rupa Huq has the adjournment debate, on access to abiraterone for the treatment of prostate cancer.

Westminster Hall: There are five debates, on:

• hydrogen-powered aviation (House of Commons Library briefing);

• transport infrastructure in Cramlington and Killingworth constituency;

• tackling extremism in prisons (House of Commons Library briefing);

• UK compliance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide; and

• Government support for disabled people in poverty.

Legislative committees:

• Football Governance Bill: The Public Bill Committee will continue its consideration of the Bill’s clauses and any proposed amendments. The next part of the Bill to be considered relates to the distribution of revenue within the English Football League.

• Mental Health Bill: The Public Bill Committee will continue its consideration of the Bill’s clauses and any proposed amendments. The next part to be considered relates to community treatment of patients and the persons nominated to represent patients.

• Victims and Courts Bill: The Public Bill Committee will meet for the first time today, to take oral evidence from witnesses. It will begin substantive clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill and consideration of any proposed amendments at its next sitting, on Thursday.

• Delegated Legislation Committee meeting today: to consider the draft Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) (Threshold Amount) (Amendment) Order 2025.

Oral questions: Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on learning disabilities nursing; the regulation of e-scooters and e-bikes; cladding on high-rise buildings; and funding for international vaccine programmes, such as GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.

Main business: Holocaust Memorial Bill (Third Reading). Originally introduced in the House of Commons in 2023, this Bill was carried over into the current Parliament following the General Election, as permitted for hybrid legislation. Its purpose is to amend planning restrictions to enable a new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre to be constructed in Victoria Tower Gardens, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament. If Peers approve the Bill today it will be sent to the House of Commons for consideration of amendments.

The Government suffered one defeat during the amending stages in the House of Lords. An amendment from the non-affiliated peer Lord Verdirame was agreed at Report Stage, which specified that the sole purpose of any Learning Centre must be the provision of education about the Holocaust and antisemitism. The Government may seek to remove this amendment in the Commons.

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Committee Stage, day 5). The House will today enter the fifth of eight scheduled sittings for Committee Stage of the Bill. Originally set to conclude at the seventh sitting on 23 June, progress was slower than expected, requiring the Whips to schedule an additional sitting on 3 July.

The next set of clauses and groups of amendments to be debated focus on children in care, including their accommodation by local authorities, the use of accommodation for depriving children of liberty, the regulation of children’s homes and fostering agencies, and the cost of children’s care homes. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Grand Committee: There will be debates on four draft Statutory Instruments:

• the Medical Devices and Blood Safety and Quality (Fees Amendment) Regulations 2025;

• the Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc) Regulations 2025;

• the Pollution Prevention and Control (Fees) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025; and

• the Casinos (Gaming Machines and Mandatory Conditions) Regulations 2025.

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (09:30): The Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will give evidence.

• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (10:00): Sir John Cunliffe, Chair of the Independent Water Commission, will give evidence on reform of the water sector.

• Treasury Committee (10:15): The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Institute for Government, and an academic from the London Business School will give evidence on the Spending Review 2025.

• Modernisation Committee (11:45): Three academics – Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, and Professor Elizabeth Evans – will give evidence on access to the House of Commons and its procedures.

• Foreign Affairs Committee (14:00): The Foreign Secretary, David Lammy MP, and the Foreign Office Permanent Secretary, Sir Oliver Robbins, will give evidence on the work of the Foreign Office.

• Home Affairs Committee (14:30): Jess Phillips MP, the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence against Women and Girls, and representatives of the police and local authorities, will give evidence on tackling violence against women and girls.

• Justice Committee (14:30): David Gauke, Chair of the Independent Sentencing Review and former Lord Chancellor, will give evidence on the Independent Sentencing Review.

House of Lords

• Science and Technology Committee (10:15): Lord Willetts, Chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office, and a representative of the British Standards Institution will give evidence on financing and scaling UK science and technology.

• International Agreements Committee and International Relations and Defence Committee (16:00): The Committees will hold a joint session to hear from the Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty MP and Sir Christopher Greenwood, a former judge at the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, on the treaty between the UK and Mauritius concerning the Chagos Islands.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

Details of Wednesday’s business can be found below.

Questions and statements: At 11:30, Women and Equalities Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include conversion therapy, educational outcomes for boys, digital exclusion, women with endometriosis, the impact of welfare reforms, violence against women and girls, pay disparities for disabled people, and the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act.

Prime Minister’s Questions: At 12:00, Sir Keir Starmer will face the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, at PMQs.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Labour MP Rachel Blake will seek to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Right to Manage and Leasehold Bill. This proposed legislation would expand the rights of tenants and leaseholders to manage their properties.

Main business: Crime and Policing Bill (Report Stage, day 2; and Third Reading).

In accordance with the programme motion, presuming it was agreed yesterday, today’s debate will focus on remaining new clauses and new schedules and amendments to clauses 166 to 172 (other than amendments relating to abortion). Clauses 166 to 172 of the Bill deal largely with procedural and technical elements of the Bill, such as its commencement, title, and legislative extent. At 18:00 at the latest, any new clauses and new schedules selected for a vote will be put to the House. This is most likely to include some Conservative new clauses, which propose:

• establishing a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs; and

• abolishing the recording of non-crime hate incidents by police.

The other new clauses most likely to be selected for a vote include the 12 tabled by the Liberal Democrat spokesperson, as well as those with the highest number of supporting signatures. These include proposals to:

• create a criminal offence of enabling or profiting from the prostitution of another person, including by operating a website hosting adverts for prostitution (Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour);

• create a criminal offence of paying for, or attempting to pay for, sex, either for themselves or on behalf of others (Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour);

• decriminalise victims of commercial sexual exploitation, by repealing the offence of loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution (Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour);

• commence the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023 – which criminalises public harassment based on an individual’s sex – at the point when this Bill receives Royal Assent (Mike Martin, Liberal Democrat);

• define “a cycle” as including a pedal cycle, e-bike, or mechanically propelled personal transporter, for the purposes of cycling offences (Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative);

• recognise “honour-based abuse” as an aggravating factor in sentencing perpetrators of that abuse and a mitigating factor for victims of that abuse (Kirith Entwistle, Labour);

• increase the maximum penalties for driving without a licence or failure to stop at a road traffic incident (Will Stone, Labour); and

• establish a statutory right to peaceful protest and a duty on public authorities to respect, protect and facilitate that right (Alex Sobel, Labour).

Once the votes conclude, the House will move onto Third Reading, on which it is expected to vote at 19:00. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Adjournment: The Labour MP Jo White has the adjournment debate, on Government support for post-industrial towns.

Westminster Hall: There are five debates, on:

• the future of the gas grid;

• Government policy on marriage between first cousins;

• Government support for businesses in rural areas;

• the removal of asbestos from non-domestic buildings; and

• UK relations with Morocco (House of Commons Library briefing).

Legislative committees:

• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill: This Bill, a Private Member’s Bill (PMB) sponsored by the Labour MP John Grady, would require spaceflight operator licenses to specify the licensee’s indemnity limit. As with most PMBs, the Committee is likely to only sit once (the assisted dying PMB being a rare exception to this usual practice).

• Delegated Legislation Committee meeting today: to consider the draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025.

Oral questions: Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on abducted Ukrainian children in Russia and Belarus; care worker visas; and wild camping. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Monday 16 June.

Main business: Employment Rights Bill (Committee Stage, day 10). The House will continue its clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Bill and any proposed amendments. Government Whips have signalled that they expect today’s sitting to be the final one, but this will depend on how much progress is made. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Grand Committee: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Committee Stage, day 5). The House will continue its clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill and of amendments, resuming at the point where the House ended its consideration of the Bill on Monday. (House of Lords Library briefing)

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Health and Social Care Committee (09:30): Baroness Merron, Minister for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, will give evidence on black maternal health.

• Treasury Committee (14:15): Academics, experts and industry representatives will give evidence on the National Wealth Fund.

House of Lords

• Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee (10:45): The DUP Leader, Gavin Robinson MP, and SDLP leader, Matthew O’Toole MLA, will give evidence on strengthening Northern Ireland’s voice in the context of the Windsor Framework.

• International Relations and Defence Committee (11:00): Baroness Chapman of Darlington, the Minister for International Development, will give evidence on her policy portfolio.

• Public Services Committee (11:00): The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, will give evidence on her work.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

Questions and statements: At 09:30, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Ministers will face questions from MPs. Topics include animal disease outbreaks, chalk streams, unlicensed animal rescue centres, nature-friendly farming funding, water company fines, fly-tipping, accountability of water company executives, access to nature and the countryside, encouraging the purchase of British produce, and food security.

At 10:10, the Solicitor General will face questions from MPs. Topics include steps being taken to increase prosecution rates for crimes involving violence against women and girls; accountability for breaches of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; prosecution of offenders involved in hostile state activity; prosecution of people smugglers; legal advice on immigration matters; ensuring compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights; reducing prosecutions for non-violent drug offences; prosecuting hate crime; and steps to promote and protect the rule of law.

Any Urgent Questions will follow.

The Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, will present her weekly Business Statement, setting out the business in the House for the next couple of weeks. Any other Ministerial Statements will follow.

Main business: Motion to approve the draft Licensing Act 2003 (UEFA Women’s European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2025. This Statutory Instrument will allow licensed premises in England and/or Wales to extend their opening hours from 23:00 to 01:00 the following day, if England or Wales reach the semi-finals or finals of the Women’s Euro 2025 tournament. Under the House of Commons Standing Orders, debates on Statutory Instruments are limited to no more than 90 minutes.

There will then be two general debates, the subjects of which were chosen by the Backbench Business Committee:

• Incontinence (Sonia Kumar, Labour): In her application, Kumar said that the purpose of the debate was to raise awareness and break the stigma around incontinence, which affects 14 million people in the UK. (House of Commons Library briefing)

• Water safety education (Darren Paffey, Labour): In his application, Paffey raised the case of a constituent who drowned after being caught in a riptide and said that the debate would be a chance to raise the profile of this issue. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Adjournment: The Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine has the adjournment debate, on the impact of the McCloud remedy on public sector pensions. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Westminster Hall: There are two debates and one Select Committee Statement today:

• Select Committee Statement by Helena Dollimore MP, a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, about the Committee’s new report Priorities for water sector reform, due to be published on Monday 16 June.

• A debate on the role of careers education in improving social mobility. (House of Commons Library briefing)

• A debate on Down Syndrome Regression Disorder. (House of Commons Library briefing)

Legislative committees:

• Mental Health Bill: The Public Bill Committee will continue its consideration of the Bill and proposed amendments.

• Victims and Courts Bill: The Public Bill Committee will begin its clause-by-clause scrutiny of the Bill and consideration of amendments, having taken oral evidence from witnesses on Tuesday. The Committee will go through the Bill in order, starting with the first clauses, which relate to compelling attendance at sentencing hearings, restricting parental responsibility for certain sex offenders, victims’ rights to receive information about offenders, and the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner.

Oral questions: Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on environmental and navigational risks posed by derelict boats abandoned on rivers and estuaries; the construction of new social homes; and the prohibition of bottom trawling and dredging in English marine protected areas. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 17 June.

Main business: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Committee Stage, day 6). Peers will resume their scrutiny at the point where they ended consideration of the Bill on Tuesday.

Highlights include:

House of Lords

Social Mobility Policy Committee (10:05): Representatives of rural industries will give evidence on social mobility policy.

A full list of select committee hearings can be found on the What’s On section of the Parliament website.

Private Members’ Bills (PMBs): Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Remaining Stages). The bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales returns to the House of Commons. Today’s proceedings will consist of two elements:

(i) the conclusion of any outstanding votes on amendments and new clauses that were not decided during last Friday’s Report Stage; and

(ii) Third Reading, which is the final opportunity for MPs to debate the contents of the Bill and decide whether they wish to support it in its now amended form.

If MPs do give the Bill a Third Reading, it will be sent to the House of Lords.

The House has already spent two days considering Report Stage: Friday 16 May and Friday 13 June. Through a process known as “grouping”, the proposed new clauses and amendments were split into two groups, with a debate on each group taking place on each of the two days.

At the end of the debate on Group 2 last Friday (13 June), MPs began the process of voting on amendments and new clauses; this included those tabled by the Bill’s sponsor, Kim Leadbeater, as well as those initially selected for a decision by the Speaker.

At the start of proceedings that day, the Speaker indicated that, in addition to Kim Leadbeater’s proposals, he would select four new clauses and amendments for a decision. Report Stage would only conclude if all the necessary votes were put to the House before 14:30 – the “moment of interruption” on a Friday – after which any amendments could only be agreed if they were unopposed. However, there was only sufficient time for the House to vote on Kim Leadbeater’s new clauses and three of the other four proposals selected for a decision, namely:

• Amendment (b) to New Clause 14 (Paul Waugh, Labour): to limit the exceptions that could be created to the advertising ban set out in New Clause 14. The House voted against this amendment by 254 votes to 233.

• New Clause 1 (Dame Meg Hillier, Labour): to prohibit any health professional from raising assisted dying with a person unless that person has first raised it. The House voted against this new clause by 256 votes to 230.

• New Clause 2 (Dame Meg Hillier, Labour): to prohibit any health professional from raising assisted dying with a person under the age of 18. The House voted in favour of this new clause by 259 votes to 216.

The vote on New Clause 16, tabled by Conservative MP Rebecca Paul, was not reached in time before the 14:30 cut off. This New Clause proposes that a person would not be eligible for assisted dying if their wish to end their life is substantially motivated by factors such as not wanting to be a burden, a mental disorder, a disability, financial considerations, a lack of access to care, or suicidal ideation.

This New Clause will therefore be put to the House at the start of proceedings today.

The Speaker may also choose to select additional new clauses and amendments for a vote if they are lower on the amendment paper than New Clause 16. Once again, this will include, but is not limited to, amendments tabled by Kim Leadbeater herself.

The Speaker may select amendment 21, tabled by Liberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson, which would require the Government to publish an assessment of palliative and end of life care within one year of the Act’s passage. Support for the amendment was indicated by Kim Leadbeater during last Friday’s debate. Likewise, amendment 14 in the name of Labour MP Naz Shah could also be selected. It seeks to clarify that a person cannot be considered terminally ill solely because they voluntarily stopped eating or drinking, an amendment that Leadbeater also expressed support for during debate on the first day of Report Stage on 16 May.

The Speaker may also choose to select amendments that have acquired a significant number of supporting signatures. Amendment 42, tabled by Labour MP Adam Jogee, currently has more signatures than any other amendment or new clause. It proposes removing the Bill’s automatic four-year commencement provision and instead stipulates that the Act would come into force when it is actively commenced by a Minister.

The likely sequence of events today is as follows:

1. An MP will move that the House do sit in private, which will almost certainly be rejected by the House without a division. The purpose of moving this motion at the start of proceedings is to prevent it being moved as a delaying or blocking tactic later in the day, as such a motion can be moved only once per sitting.

2. The Speaker will make a statement conveying to MPs how he anticipates handling the proceedings and which other amendments he intends to select for a vote.

3. The Speaker will put the question that New Clause 16 be read a second time. As this New Clause has been tabled by Rebecca Paul, an opponent of the Bill, it is expected that a division will take place.

4. If agreed, the House will then move immediately to the question that New Clause 16 be added to the Bill. If rejected, it will move to the next amendment selected for separate decision.

5. Further votes on new clauses and amendments will be put to the House, in the order they appear on the amendment paper.

Once all the votes are complete, proceedings on Third Reading will begin immediately:

1. The Speaker may make a further statement conveying to MPs how he anticipates handling this final stage, including a reference to how many MPs have told him they would like to speak, an informal time limit on speeches that MPs should therefore seek to adhere to, and the time at which he may call the frontbench spokespersons towards the end of the debate.

2. Kim Leadbeater will move formally that the Bill “be now read the third time”. She will then make a speech urging the House to pass the Bill.

3. The Chair will then invite MPs to contribute to the debate, possibly prioritising the contribution of MPs who have not yet had an opportunity to speak about the Bill during the earlier stages. The debate will conclude with speeches from the two frontbench spokespersons.

4. When the Government Minister concludes their speech, an MP will seek to “claim the closure” – that is, a motion to end the debate and move on to the decision (vote), in the form “that the question be now put” – and the Speaker will then need to decide whether to accept the request. If the “closure” is moved towards the end of the sitting, it is very likely to be accepted. The House would then vote on the “closure”. This may not require a formal division (it might be taken on a voice vote).

5. If the “closure” is agreed, the House will move straight to a vote on Third Reading. If the “closure” is not agreed, the Third Reading debate will continue.

6. If the House agrees to give the Bill a Third Reading, it will head to the House of Lords. If it rejects the Bill at Third Reading, its proceedings will come to an end and it will go no further.

The Hansard Society’s guide to Private Members’ Bills explains in more detail the various types of PMB and how the legislative process for PMBs differs from that for Government bills.

At 14:30, any Private Members’ Bills listed for Second Reading on the Order Paper can receive it without debate, if they are unopposed. But if any MP shouts “Object!”, the Bill’s sponsor must choose a future date for Second Reading. Typically, a Government Whip will object to any PMBs the Government does not support. If no one objects, a Private Member’s Bill can pass Second Reading and proceed to the next stage with little or no debate.

Adjournment: The Conservative MP Mark Francois has the adjournment debate, on development on the green belt in his Rayleigh and Wickford constituency.

The House will not be sitting.

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