Graphic: Friday in the House of Lords
🕙 Today from 10am, members hold a debate to mark #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026.
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The House of Lords Library, a room with shelves filled with books in the background. A table with newspapers in the foreground.
Looking through a pair of doors along the Library. There are tables and chairs in the centre on top of a patterned carpet, while bookshelves line the walls.
A bust of Queen Victoria sits on top of a mantelpiece with books on shelves behind.
On #WorldBookDay we are celebrating the House of Lords Library, which turns 200 years old this year.
The Library collection includes around 80,000 books, from a 1490 legal text to the latest titles in social science, international relations, economics and more.
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:
🟥 @manchester.ac.uk report: 'Class Ceiling'
🟥 Access to Work fund
🟥 #NationalInsuranceBill
🟥 #EnglishDevolutionBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
https://orlo.uk/rFTHh
Wednesday 4 March, member speaking in the Lords chamber
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 local government reorganisation
🟥 appointing a maternity commissioner
🟥 #CrimeandPolicingBill
🟥 UK-India trade
➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/rIYIc
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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 Carbon Budget 6
🟥 defence strategy
🟥 British farming
🟥 assisted dying legislation
🟥 #TobaccoandVapesBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online https://orlo.uk/DESC7
Members in the House of Lords chamber
🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 implementing the Child Poverty Strategy
🟥 forest-risk commodities
🟥 UK’s streaming and cinema sector
🟥 reducing violence against NHS staff
🟥 #CrimeAndPolicingBill
➡️ See full schedule https://orlo.uk/aFf3p
📝 In committees, @fryrsquared.bsky.social and @bobbyseagull.bsky.social speak to the Numeracy for Life Committee. Also, the Science and Technology Committee hears from @lizforleicester.bsky.social and Lord Vallance of Balham for its regular evidence session.
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www.parliament.uk/business/new...
📃 In bills, the Lords will have a further opportunity to examine Crime and Policing Bill, Tobacco and Vapes Bill, and National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill. Also, members will conduct line by line examination of English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
Member speaking in the chamber.
Find out what’s coming up this week in the House of Lords:
❓ Lords members quiz the government on reducing violence against NHS staff, competitiveness of British farming against imported produce, local government reorganisation in England, and class inequality in the arts.
Friday 27 February, photo of the House of Lords chamber
🕙 Line by line check of the #TerminallyIllAdultsBill continues in #HouseOfLords from 10am.
➡️ Find out more and watch online https://orlo.uk/b40Dv
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:
🟥 clean energy projects
🟥 building homes in flood risk areas
🟥 @LordsEUCom: UK-EU relationships
🟥 @HumanRightsCtte: transnational repression in the UK
➡️ See full schedule and watch online https://orlo.uk/3Ioav
Wednesday 25 February, member speaking in the Lords chamber
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 cyclist safety
🟥 imprisonment of Imran Khan
🟥 #MedicalTrainingBill
🟥 #CrimeandPolicingBill
➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/oyiVI
Member speaking in the chamber.
🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 education in prisons
🟥 student loans
🟥 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
🟥 Tobacco and Vapes Bill
🟥 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill
➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/brr5G
The Lord Speaker has accepted an urgent question from Lord Lamont of Lerwick on the impact on the UK economy following the announcement by President Trump of increased tariffs.
Watch live from around 3.15pm.
https://orlo.uk/iXQF0
Baroness Smith of Malvern
🕝 #HouseOfLords returns from 2.30pm with:
🟥 recommendations of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review
🟥 introducing V-Levels to students, parents, and employers
🟥 #MedicalTrainingBill
🟥#PensionSchemesBill
➡️ See full schedule https://orlo.uk/Tbclq
📝 In committees, Industry and Regulators Committee continues its inquiry into regulators and growth, hearing from Blair McDougall MP. Later, the Financial Services Regulation Committee will look at the growth and proposed regulation of stablecoins in the UK.
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www.parliament.uk/business/new...
📃 Further scrutiny of Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill, Tobacco and Vapes Bill, Crime and Policing Bill, and a ‘tidy up’ of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill will also take place.
📃 In bills, the Lords is set to conduct line-by-line scrutiny of Pension Schemes Bill, National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill and Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
Member speaking in the chamber.
Find out what’s coming up this week in the House of Lords:
❓ Lords members question the government on the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, education in prisons, threats to economic stability due to changes in the labour market, and cyclist safety measures.
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🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:
🟥 cruelty to animals
🟥 Post Office Horizon scandal
🟥 prison culture
🟥 donations to political parties
🟥 waste crime
🟥 Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/WrcYM
Wednesday 11 February, member speaking in the Lords chamber
🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:
🟥 Renters' Rights Act
🟥 delivering 1.5m new homes
🟥 transition to electric vehicles
🟥 smart motorways
🟥 #VictimsandCourtsBill
🟥 #EnglishDevolutionBill
➡️ See full schedule https://orlo.uk/bXQmH
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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm:
🟥 sale of energy drinks to under-16s
🟥 pregnancy and early years policy
🟥 registering a death
🟥 vetting process for ambassadors
🟥 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
➡️ https://orlo.uk/zRCq3
The Lord Speaker has accepted an urgent question from Baroness Hayter following the 20-year prison sentence given to British citizen Jimmy Lai in China.
Watch live from around 3.20pm https://orlo.uk/Roz0m
📝 In committees, Industry and Regulators Committee continues its inquiry into regulators and growth, hearing from Lord Willetts. Also, Environment and Climate Change Committee speaks to @emmahardymp.bsky.social for its inquiry into drought preparedness.
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www.parliament.uk/business/new...
📃 In bills, members scrutinise Victims and Courts Bill, English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, and Medical Training (prioritisation) Bill. The Lords will also ‘tidy up' the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, and have further opportunity to examine the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill.
Members in the House of Lords chamber
🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 number of beagles currently used for testing in life sciences laboratories
🟥 improving public transport to remote communities
🟥 #VictimsAndCourtsBill
🟥 #EnglishDevolutionBill
➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/3qmlJ
Member speaking in the Lords chamber.
Find out what’s coming up this week in the House of Lords:
❓ Lords members question the government on improving public transport to remote communities, banning the sale of energy drinks to under-16s, the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, and the Post Office Horizon scandal.
