The House will not be sitting.

The House will not be sitting.

Private business: At 14:30, Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords], Second Reading. This is a Private Bill, meaning that it affects specific individuals or organisations rather than the general public, and is promoted by the Royal Albert Hall itself rather than by the Government.

Under the Private Bill procedure, motions related to Private Bills – including Second Reading – can be approved without debate in the time slot before oral questions, provided that no MP objects. If any MP does oppose the motion, the Speaker will refer the Bill to the most senior Deputy Speaker, who is formally responsible for the Bill’s progression, to name a future date for Second Reading.

The Second Reading of the Royal Albert Hall Bill was scheduled the first time for last Tuesday (29 April), but Conservative MP Sir Christopher Chope objected, resulting in the Second Reading being postponed.

When a Private Bill has already been deferred, MPs can register their objection in advance by tabling a ‘blocking motion’ – a formal motion stating that the Second Reading should take place “upon this day in six months”. If such a motion appears on the Order Paper, as it does today in the name of Sir Christopher Chope, the Second Reading cannot proceed in the slot before oral questions. Instead, once the Bill’s title is read out in the Chamber, the Speaker will immediately ask the most senior Deputy Speaker to name a new date for Second Reading.

In theory, a blocking motion can be repeatedly renewed, indefinitely delaying a Private Bill’s progress. However, if such delays persist, Standing Orders empower the Deputy Speaker to schedule a debate of up to three hours – potentially during Government time – where a single MP would no longer be able to block the Bill’s passage.

The Royal Albert Hall Bill has attracted some controversy, particularly during its passage through the House of Lords, where concerns were raised about conflicts of interest in the Hall’s governance. In an unusual move, Peers passed an amendment against the wishes of the Bill’s promoter. While Private Bills are typically uncontroversial and rarely debated, Christopher Chope’s use of the blocking motion is aimed at compelling the Commons to debate and scrutinise this contentious legislation.

Questions and statements: Health and Social Care Ministers will face questions from MPs. Questions on the Order Paper concern a national maternity strategy, shifting care into the community, GPs, eye health care, the interaction between mayors and integrated care boards, social care reform, perinatal mental health, preventative healthcare, the abolition of NHS England, and hospital backlogs. Following the publication of the Impact Assessment for the assisted dying bill last Friday (2 May), Ministers may also face questions about its content during the topical questions slot at the end of the session.

Any Urgent Questions or Ministerial Statements will follow.

Ten Minute Rule Motion: The Labour MP Laurence Turner will seek the agreement of the House to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (Review) Bill. This proposed legislation would require the Government to conduct a review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). On 29 April, Turner also hosted a debate in Westminster Hall on compensation for criminal injuries, in which he drew attention to concerns about the criminal injuries compensation scheme. See our Hansard Society guide for more information about the parliamentary procedure for Ten Minute Rule Bills.

Main business: There will be a general debate to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe and victory over Japan which brought an end to the Second World War.

• House of Commons Library briefing

Presentation of public petitions: The Labour MP for Dunfermline and Dollar, Graeme Downie, will present a petition on petrol prices in Dunfermline.

Adjournment: The Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi has the adjournment debate, on the protection of neon signage as a creative industry.

Westminster Hall: There are five debates, on:

• parking regulation (House of Commons Library briefing);

• energy resilience;

• the Dedicated Schools Grant (House of Commons Library briefing);

• the potential merits of reopening Cullompton and Wellington railway stations; and

• poverty in the Glasgow North East constituency (House of Commons Library briefing).

Legislative committees: There are no Public Bill Committees or Delegated Legislation Committees meeting today.

The Hansard Society is a charity. If you find this Bulletin useful please help us cover the research and production costs. A small donation of just £3 per month – less than the cost of a cup of coffee – will help us keep you up-to-date on the issues that matter in Parliament. Donate here

Oral questions: At 14:30, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on stop and search in policing; knife crime; the use of artificial intelligence in public services; and the Government’s response to a recent report by the Climate Change Committee.

Main business: Renters’ Rights Bill (Committee). This is the fourth of six days that the Government Whips have provisionally allocated for consideration of the Bill in Committee. Progress on the first two days of Committee Stage was in line with the Government’s expectations, but on day three the House made it through only seven of the 10 groups of amendments that the Whips were targeting. Committee Stage is expected to conclude on 14 May, but further days may be added if the House makes slower than expected progress in the remaining days.

The next groups of amendments set to be debated relate to:

• proposals to expand or restrict the rights of tenants to keep pets, and related matters such as pet damage insurance;

• giving disabled tenants greater rights to home adaptations to accommodate their disability;

• giving rights to tenants for Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband installation; and

• limiting local authority powers to impose financial penalties under the Bill.

The debate will be interrupted for a one-hour debate – known as dinner-break business – on a motion to approve the draft Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025. These regulations implement provisions from the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, which defines precision bred organisms (PBOs) as a new class of product distinct from genetically modified organisms. They also establish a dedicated regulatory framework for PBOs.

The House will simultaneously debate a motion to “regret” the regulations – a motion which expresses concerns about the regulations without blocking them – which has been tabled by Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle from the Green Party. Her motion regrets that the regulations fail to provide consumers, farmers and landowners with sufficient information on genetically modified PBOs. The House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has drawn the regulations to the special attention of the House, highlighting concerns about the policy choices made in the regulations, including the absence of labelling requirements for PBOs

Grand Committee: There will be debates on five groups of draft Statutory Instruments (SIs), each of which will need to be approved by the House at a later date before they can be signed into law:

• Whiplash Injury (Amendment) Regulations 2025: This SI will increase the damages payable for whiplash injuries occurring after 31 May 2025.

• Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025: This SI will amend the law in relation to legal aid for certain domestic abuse related matters, including by updating terminology to reflect the language of “domestic abuse” used in the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act, rather than the term “domestic violence” used in older legislation.

• Licensing Act 2003 (Victory in Europe Day Licensing Hours) Order 2025: This SI will allow licensed premises, such as pubs, to extend their opening hours for the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day from 23:00 on Thursday 8 May until 01:00 on Friday 9 May.

• Cornwall Council (Adult Education Functions) Regulations 2025; East Midlands Combined County Authority (Adult Education Functions) Regulations 2025; and York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority (Adult Education Functions) Regulations 2025: These SIs will transfer key adult education and skills functions to the three specified local authorities.

• Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025: This SI raises the threshold at which solar energy projects are considered Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), shifting decision-making from local planning authorities to the Planning Inspectorate. The new threshold increases from 50 MW to 100 MW of generating capacity. The SI also brings onshore wind with a generating capacity above 100 MW back in scope of the NSIP regime.

• Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025: This SI seeks to provide continuity in the regulation of medical devices by removing the planned 26 May revocation date for four pieces of assimilated EU law (formerly known as Retained EU Law (REUL)) that became UK law after the UK’s exit from the EU.

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (14:30): The Minister responsible for plant health and animal welfare, Baroness Hayman of Ullock, will give evidence on animal and plant health.

• Culture, Media and Sport Committee (14:30): Lord (Michael) Grade of Yarmouth, Chair of Ofcom, and Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive, will give evidence on Ofcom’s work.

House of Lords

• International Agreements Committee (15:00): Academics will give evidence to the inquiry into parliamentary scrutiny of treaties and international agreements.

• European Affairs Committee (15:30): The Swiss Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Marcus Leitner, will give evidence on the UK–EU reset.

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 on the Order Paper concern violence against women and girls, grooming gangs, access to venture capital for women, supporting deaf people into employment, access to internships and placements, and conversion practices. There are also two questions on the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent judgment in relation to 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 Emma Foody will seek to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the Assets of Community Value (Sports Facilities) Bill. This proposed legislation would amend the Localism Act 2011 to provide for automatic designation of sports facilities as Assets of Community Value.

Main business: Data (Use and Access) Bill (Report and Third Reading). This legislation aims to reform the UK’s data and digital regulatory framework. Initially introduced in the House of Lords last year, the Bill underwent significant changes, with the Government defeated on five major groups of amendments, details of which were outlined in a recent edition of the Bulletin.

As is now common practice, the Government responded to the Lords amendments during the Public Bill Committee stage in the Commons, choosing to remove all five amendment groups inserted at Report Stage in the House of Lords in relation to AI and copyright, scientific research, cybersecurity, digital verification, and intimate image abuse.

However, the Government did honour the commitment it made at Third Reading in the Lords to revise the new offence inserted by the Lords of soliciting the creation of an intimate image deepfake. The amendment drafted by the Government instead creates an offence of “requesting the creation of a purported intimate image”.

If MPs agree to give the Bill a Third Reading, these groups of amendments will likely become subject to legislative ‘ping pong’ as the two Houses seek to reconcile their differences.

Two amendments on the amendment paper appear to be an attempted compromise with the House of Lords on the issue of AI and copyright. The original Lords amendments – subsequently removed by the Government in the Commons – added six new clauses to the Bill. These clauses would have required AI companies to comply with UK copyright law, mandated greater transparency about the identity and purpose of data crawlers, and introduced a legal duty to notify creators when their copyrighted content is scraped by crawlers.

In contrast, the Government’s proposed amendments would:

• require the publication of an economic impact assessment covering four policy options outlined in section B.4 of its recent Copyright and Artificial Intelligence consultation paper; and

• require a report examining those four policy options along with potential alternatives.

Liberal Democrat spokesperson Victoria Collins has tabled six new clauses that replicate – word-for-word – the clauses originally added by the House of Lords concerning the use of artificial intelligence to train large-language models. These amendments, removed by the Government in the Commons, have so far acquired the greatest number of signatures on the amendment paper so far.

Notably, the Lords’ original clauses passed despite opposition from both Government and Opposition frontbenches – a rare backbench victory. While such a win is unlikely in the Commons, the new clauses have attracted some cross-party support. Signatories include Conservative MPs Dame Caroline Dinenage, Sir John Whittingdale, and Sir Desmond Swayne; Labour MP Stella Creasy; and the SNP’s Pete Wishart.

The Liberal Democrats have also proposed amendments to raise the age of consent for processing personal data on social networks from 13 to 16, and to require the creation of a code of practice for accessing children’s educational data.

Several backbench MPs have tabled amendments:

• Damian Hinds (Conservative) proposes raising the age of consent for processing personal data from 13 to 16 years, and requiring robust age verification for services likely to be accessed by children.

• Steff Aquarone (Liberal Democrat) seeks to mandate non-digital verification options where practicable, require the Government to publish a Data Vision and Strategy, ensure digital leadership is represented at executive level in Government departments and other public bodies, and call for annual assessments of public sector data use and regulation.

• Max Wilkinson (Liberal Democrat) wants to allow parents of a deceased minor to obtain their child’s social media data without needing a court order.

• Alex Sobel (Labour) calls for greater transparency from generative AI developers about training datasets, and proposes a ban on transferring personal data to countries lacking sufficient protections for data subject rights.

• Siân Berry (Green) proposes that the Information Commissioner introduce a statutory complaints process for vulnerable individuals, along with new appeal rights to the Information Tribunal.

  • House of Commons Library briefing

Adjournment: The Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has the adjournment debate on Havering Borough and Essex devolution.

Westminster Hall: There are five debates, on:

• Government support for employment in the automotive manufacturing sector (House of Commons Library briefing);

• the development of new nuclear projects at Wylfa (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology note);

• Personal Independence Payment and disabled people - this debate will be led by Mother of the House Diane Abbott MP who has been very critical of the Government's welfare reforms (House of Commons Library briefing);

• barriers to defence sector financing; and

• tackling barriers to educational opportunities in semi-rural areas.

Legislative committees:

A Delegated Legislation Committee will meet to debate the draft Finance Act 2021 (Increase in Schedule 26 Penalty Percentages) Regulations 2025.

Oral questions: At 15:00, Peers will begin the day by questioning Ministers for 40 minutes, on pupil absenteeism; meetings between the Prime Minister and the First Minister of Wales; reform of the Criminal Cases Review Commission; and plans to discuss the Supreme Court judgment on the Equality Act with various sports governing bodies.

Main business: Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill (Second Reading). This is the Government’s legislative response to the Sentencing Council’s proposed new guideline on community and custodial sentences. Under the guideline, pre-sentence reports – used by courts to determine appropriate sentences – would generally have been required for offenders from specified groups, including ethnic, cultural, and faith minority communities. After the Government signalled its intention to legislate to prevent what it deemed two-tier sentencing, the Sentencing Council postponed implementation of the guideline.

The Sentencing Council’s authority to make new guidelines without the approval of Ministers or Parliament will not change because of this legislation. However, the Bill will prohibit the Sentencing Council from framing any sentencing guideline by reference to an offender’s personal characteristics, particularly race, religion and cultural background, when determining the need for a pre-sentence report.

The Bill was debated and approved in the House of Commons on an expedited timetable, receiving its Second and Third Readings just eight days apart. Similarly in the House of Lords the Bill’s Second Reading will take place just seven days after the Bill was introduced to the House. This scheduling of Second Reading breaches the usual convention that at least two weekends should pass after a Bill is introduced in the House of Lords – whether originating there or arriving from the Commons. Paragraph 32.6 of the Government’s Guide to Making Legislation states that “shortening these intervals can only be agreed through the usual channels” (the main party Whips or business managers). It remains to be seen whether the standard minimum intervals between subsequent stages will also be bypassed.

At Second Reading, Peers debate the general principles of the Bill but cannot propose amendments to its text. The Lords typically do not vote on Government bills at this stage, particularly when the Bill delivers on a manifesto commitment. However, this Bill does not fall into that category.

Once debate on the Bill concludes, there will be a 90-minute debate on steps being taken to eliminate antisemitism.

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Transport Committee (09:15): The Chief Executive of Network Rail, and other representatives of the railway sector, will give evidence on rail investment pipelines.

• Scottish Affairs Committee (09:30): The Lord Advocate (the Scottish Government’s most senior law officer), Dorothy Bain KC, will give evidence on Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility.

• Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (09:30): The Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner, as well as representatives of retired police officers and veterans, will give evidence on the Government’s new approach to addressing the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland.

• Health and Social Care Committee (09:30): Dame Andrea Leadsom, the former Minister for the Start of Life and former adviser on Early Years Health Development, will give evidence to the inquiry into the first 1,000 days of life.

• Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (10:00): Matthew Gill from the Institute for Government will give evidence on holding public bodies to account.

• Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (10:00): Jim McMahon MP, the Minister for Local Government, will give evidence on the funding and sustainability of local government finance.

• Culture, Media and Sport Committee (10:00): David Kogan, the Government’s preferred candidate for the Chair of the yet-to-be-established Independent Football Regulator, will appear before the Committee for a pre-appointment hearing. The Regulator will be created through the Football Governance Bill, which is currently progressing through Parliament. Kogan’s proposed appointment sparked a heated exchange during the Bill’s Second Reading debate last week. Conservative MPs accused Labour of “cronyism” for selecting a Labour Party donor. In response, the Labour Minister clarified that Kogan had been shortlisted under the previous Conservative Government and that the top candidate on that list was, in fact, a Conservative Party donor.

House of Lords

• Constitution Committee (10:30): JUSTICE and the Public Law Project will give evidence on the rule of law.

Joint

• Human Rights Committee (14:15): The Minister for Industry, Sarah Jones MP, will give evidence on forced labour in UK supply chains. As a Minister in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, she may also be questioned about the ongoing disagreement between the House of Lords and the Commons on amendments to address modern slavery and human trafficking provisions in the supply chains of Great British Energy.

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 on the Order Paper include British produce, water sector reforms, sewage overflows, reducing water bills, fishing quotas, flood prevention, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, and nature-friendly farming.

At 10:10, the Solicitor General will also face questions from MPs. Topics on the Order Paper include prosecution rates for violence against women and girls, the crown court backlog, rural crime, economic crime, driving offences, the Supreme Court judgment on biological sex, stalking prosecutions, retail crime, and offensive weapons.

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.

Select Committee statement: Toby Perkins MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, will make a statement about his Committee’s forthcoming first report this Session, The role of natural capital in the UK’s green economy. Select Committees can ask the Backbench Business Committee for time to make a statement announcing the launch of an inquiry or the publication of a report. The report has not yet been published, but must be released before the statement is made.

These statements are usually delivered in the Chamber during backbench business time on Thursdays. The statement, presented by the Committee Chair or another designated member of the Committee, consists of a 10-minute speech during which interventions are not permitted, followed by 10 minutes of questions from MPs, to which the Select Committee member responds.

Main business: There will be two backbench debates nominated by the Backbench Business Committee:

• St George’s Day and English affairs: Labour’s Adam Jogee, supported by three other MPs – Callum Anderson, Polly Billington and Andrew Rosindell – noted in his application to the Backbench Business Committee that this debate would be “consistent with the other debates marking the national days in our United Kingdom”.

• Research and treatment of brain tumours: Labour’s Dame Siobhain McDonagh applied for this debate, supported by the Lib Dem MP Charlie Maynard (House of Commons Library briefing). In her application to the Backbench Business Committee, McDonagh noted that “brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of under-40s” and that the “treatment and availability of drug trials is woeful”. The text of her motion, which is not binding on Ministers, calls on the Government to “demand that the National Institute for Health and Care Research take action to spend the £40 million provided by the Government for brain tumour research in 2018 for innovative and meaningful drug trials”, and to “encourage the pharmaceutical industry to undertake research into the repurposing of drugs for brain tumours and to require the NHS repurposing service to consider the repurposing of drugs for brain tumours”.

Adjournment: The subject of the debate is yet to be confirmed.

Westminster Hall: There are two debates today, on:

• cold and damp homes (House of Commons Library Debate Pack); and

• the potential merits of Government support for small abattoirs (House of Commons Library Debate Pack).

Legislative committees:

Crime and Policing Bill: The Public Bill Committee has now completed its consideration of all 130 substantive clauses in the Bill. In accordance with the agreed programme order, the Committee will next consider proposed new clauses. Once all new clauses have been dispensed with, the Committee will move on to the final seven clauses of the Bill. These are largely procedural, covering regulation-making powers, the territorial extent of the legislation, and its commencement provisions. The Government has tabled 29 new clauses, covering approximately 40 pages. These will be debated first and have been divided into four groups:

• Unlawful weapons: giving the police power to issue Content Removal Notices related to illegal knives and other offensive weapons, with civil penalties for culpable companies and senior executives; amending the offences and available defences relating to the online sale of knives and crossbows; and imposing a duty on sellers of bladed articles to report bulk sales.

• New cycling offences: introducing a series of new offences for causing death or serious injury by dangerous, careless or inconsiderate cycling.

• Protest restrictions: giving police the power to impose conditions on processions, assemblies and protests that might intimidate or deter people from accessing a place of worship; and allowing certain powers under the 1986 Public Order Act to be exercised by a police officer authorised to do so by a chief police officer.

• Anonymity for firearms officers: providing a presumption of anonymity for firearms officers who are charged with an offence relating to the discharge of a firearm as part of their duties.

New clauses tabled by Opposition and backbench MPs will then be debated. Of particular note are three groups of new clauses which have each acquired several dozen backbench signatures:

• Prostitution: three new clauses tabled by Labour backbencher Tonia Antoniazzi would make it a criminal offence to profit from the prostitution of another person, including by operating a website that hosts adverts; make it a criminal offence to pay for a prostitute; and abolish the offence of loitering or soliciting for purposes of prostitution. Antoniazzi is not a member of the Public Bill Committee, so an MP who is on the Committee will need to move the new clauses for them to be debated and voted on.

• Modern Slavery Act 2015: a new clause from Labour MP Carolyn Harris seeks to clarify and expand the definition of human trafficking in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Harris is also not a member of the Public Bill Committee.

• Pornographic content: three new clauses from Labour MP Jess Asato would extend safeguarding requirements for pornography offline to apply to pornography online; require pornographic sites to verify the age of everyone featured on their sites; and extend the duties to identify and remove illegal content under the Online Safety Act 2023 to pornographic sites. Asato is also not a member of the Public Bill Committee.

These will be followed by debates on 14 new clauses tabled by the official Opposition and seven new clauses proposed by the Liberal Democrats.

Oral questions: After prayers at 11:00 and an adjournment to commemorate VE Day, Peers will resume business at 12:00 and question Ministers for 40 minutes, on wildfires caused by climate change; the survey undertaken by the Care Quality Commission showing long waiting lists for mental health care; and plans to negotiate a visa waiver agreement for creative professionals touring the EU. The topic of a fourth question will be decided by a ballot drawn at lunchtime on Tuesday 6 May.

Main business: Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill (Third Reading). This Bill, proposed by the Law Commission, would formally establish a third category of personal property in law – distinct from physical assets and rights-based assets such as debts and securities – into which crypto-tokens and similar digital assets could fall.

Once Third Reading is agreed, the Bill will be sent to the House of Commons. The Commons’ Standing Orders state that any bill whose main purpose is to implement proposals in a Law Commission report will usually be referred to a ‘Second Reading committee’ for its Second Reading debate, rather than debated in the House of Commons Chamber. This is because Law Commission bills are typically uncontroversial or are focused on tidying-up measures. However, the Government may choose to move a motion to override this process to allow the debate on the Bill to take place in the Chamber instead.

Employment Rights Bill (Committee). This is the second day of Committee Stage, out of the seven sittings scheduled by the Government Whips, with the final sitting currently set for Thursday 5 June. If progress is slower than expected, additional sittings or an extension of the timetable may be required. On the first day, the Committee disposed of five groups of amendments, well below the nine groups the Government Whips had anticipated.

The next groups of amendments to be considered by the Committee relate to the following areas:

• the power of the Government to specify, in regulations, circumstances in which the duty for employers to offer a guaranteed hours contract does not apply;

• allowing employers to propose changes to contracts, or to make employees redundant, once a guaranteed hours contract is given, so long as these are based on genuine business needs;

• the duty to provide reasonable notice of a shift or a shift change, and how it applies to agency workers;

• proposals to ensure workers can be independently represented by collective structures other than trade unions; and

• proposals to require a review of the impact of the Bill’s zero hours provisions on courts and tribunals, as well as its impact on the hospitality, retail and health and social care sectors.

Amendments at Committee Stage are often proposed merely to facilitate debate or to probe the Government’s position without a vote. Divisions tend to occur more frequently at Report Stage.

Highlights include:

House of Commons

• Public Accounts Committee (10:00): The new Home Office Permanent Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo and other senior officials will give evidence on skilled worker visas. The Committee’s inquiry builds on a National Audit Office report published in March which concluded that while the skilled worker visa route continues to support many employers in recruiting overseas workers, “the Home Office has made changes without a detailed understanding of potential impacts across different sectors and regions”. The report further noted that “the Home Office and departments have not collaborated effectively on the role that immigration plays across different sectors”.

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

The House will not be sitting.

Main business: From 10:00, there will be a debate on the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe and victory over Japan, which brought an end to the Second World War (House of Lords Library briefing). This follows the House of Commons debate on the same topic on Tuesday (6 May).

The Hansard Society is a charity. If you find this Bulletin useful please help us cover the research and production costs. A small donation of just £3 per month – less than the cost of a cup of coffee – will help us keep you up-to-date on the issues that matter in Parliament. Donate here