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The Committee has published a unanimous report today on Northern Ireland after Brexit: Strengthening Northern Ireland's voice in the context of the Windsor Framework. The Committee warns that efforts to mitigate the democratic deficit in NI after Brexit remain insufficient. 1/6

21 May 2025 - Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 10:30 - Room 2, Palace of Westminster

Tomorrow at 10.45am we will be taking evidence from @cbarnard.bsky.social , @richardcorbett.bsky.social and Professor John Erik Fossum of @unioslo-arena.bsky.social as part of our inquiry into Strengthening NI's voice in the context of the Windsor Framework

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2. The Committee undertakes both legislative scrutiny of all Government bills and inquiries into constitutional issues. In doing this work, now for over two decades, we have developed a set of legislative standards that guides our legislative scrutiny. Until now, however, we have not sought to bring these standards together in one document. In this document, we draw together themes highlighted in our most recent reports to the House, published since 2017. Our focus is upon legislative scrutiny reports but, where relevant, we also draw upon relevant inquiry reports. 3. This report presents a summary of legislative standards which the Committee has noted in its scrutiny of legislation over the past eight years. In doing so, we have taken a lead from the UCL Constitution Unit’s earlier work to publish three editions of ‘The Constitutional Standards of the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution’, though note that those documents were not produced by us.

It is very welcome to see the Constitution Committee publish a summary of the standards that it has held legislation to since 2017.

As the Committee explicitly notes, its summary builds on three of our reports doing the same thing back to 2001.

Read it 👉 committees.parliament.uk/publications....

Very pleased to be part of the 2nd edition of 'Exploring Parliament', with a chapter titled 'A Parliament for the Union?', co-authored with @woodstockjag.bsky.social

Our chapter looks at how the different parts of the UK Union are (or aren't?) reflected in Westminster procedure and practice

Jack Sheldon, Farrah Bhatti, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Louise Thompson, Sarah Childs and Simon Burton sitting at the front of a classroom. #ExploringParliament is written on the blackboard behind Jack.

To mark the publication of the 2nd edition of #ExploringParliament, here's a throwback to the book's origins: 11 April 2022 when @psa-parliaments.bsky.social kindly hosted a roundtable at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in York... @estrangeirada.bsky.social @louisevthompson.bsky.social

Baroness Anelay spoke in a session on "Developing a new security framework for the European Union"

She welcomed the UK being described as an "essential European ally" in the Commission's defence White Paper & called for closer EU-UK defence industrial cooperation to strengthen joint security

This week: Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP at the Polish Sejm.

Baroness Anelay of St Johns is representing the House of Lords European Affairs Committee

Over the last two days the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly took place in Brussels.

MEPs, MPs and peers discussed foreign policy cooperation, trade and youth opportunities.

A recommendation on "strengthening the EU-UK partnership" was agreed: www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/2938...

Lords Committee announces inquiry on Northern Ireland’s voice in context of Windsor Framework - Committees - UK Parliament Today, the new Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee launches its first inquiry on Strengthening Northern Ireland’s voice in the context of the Windsor Framework with the publication of a call for...

The Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee has launched its new inquiry on Strengthening Northern Ireland's Voice in the context of the Windsor Framework.

More detail here:
committees.parliament.uk/committee/76...

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📢We want to hear from you about UK space policy and the opportunities and challenges facing the sector. 🚀

✍️We've launched a call for written evidence at: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... 📜

⏰Deadline for submissions is Thursday 17 April.

#space #ukspace

Lords Committee calls for evidence on treaty scrutiny - Committees - UK Parliament The House of Lords International Agreements Committee has today launched a call for evidence to support its inquiry into the UK treaty scrutiny process.

For those of you interested in how the U.K. Parliament scrutinises treaties, you might want to take a look at the latest call for evidence from the @houseoflords.parliament.uk International Agreements Committee:

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The Chair of the Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee, Lord Carlile of Berriew, today wrote to The Rt Hon Nick Thomas–Symonds MP about the supply of veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland.

Read the full letter here: committees.parliament.uk/publications/46982/documents/242892/default/

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This week, Lords committees heard from experts, including @profbriancox.bsky.social and @bobbyseagull.bsky.social.

Four new committees began work exploring home-based working, social mobility, space, and the Autism Act 2009.

But what are Lords committees and how does their work impact our lives?

Great to see the new @houseoflords.parliament.uk special inquiry committees up and running.

Follow their work:
@hlautismactcom.bsky.social
@lordsukspacecom.bsky.social
@hlhomeworking.bsky.social
@hlsocmobility.bsky.social

Why the French parliament’s Prime Minister’s Questions experiment failed Yesterday, Calixte Bloquet & Ruxandra Serban published a post explaining why the National Assembly decided to trial a session of PMQs. Here they explain how it fared and why it failed

Why the French parliament’s Prime Minister’s Questions experiment failed

Yesterday, Calixte Bloquet & Ruxandra Serban published a post explaining why the National Assembly decided to trial a session of PMQs. Here they explain how it fared and why it failed

The UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly - bringing together 35 MEPs, 21 MPs and 14 peers - will meet for the first time since 2023 on 17-18 March in Brussels.

The agenda for the session has now been published: www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/2933...

Job ad of the year just dropped: its only BLACK ROD housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Lords Committee seeks views on reset of UK-EU relations - Committees - UK Parliament The House of Lords European Affairs Committee has issued a call for evidence for its new inquiry into the reset of UK-EU relations.

The @houseoflords.parliament.uk European Affairs Committee is launching a major inquiry into the 'reset' of UK-EU relations.

Written submissions are invited, with a deadline of 7 March.

More details here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

A busy House of Lords chamber looking towards the throne. Members are sitting on red benches on either side while someone stands to speak.

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10 December 2024 - Oral evidence - The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories - Ora... 16:00 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster

Today at 4pm the Lords European Affairs Committee will take evidence on UK-EU relations from ministers Nick Thomas-Symonds and Stephen Doughty. This will be the first public evidence session with ministers dedicated to UK-EU relations in this parliament.

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Congrats!

The Ukraine Effect (European Affairs Committee Report) - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'The Ukraine Effect (European Affairs Committee Report)' on Thursday 21 November 2024.

You can read Hansard of this debate here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-1...

House of Lords confirms establishment of Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee (NISC) with similar remit to former Windsor Framework Sub-Committee

UK-EU relationship and the war in Ukraine: Lords committee report The House of Lords European Affairs Committee welcomed the EU and UK response to the war in Ukraine “in general terms”. In its January 2024 report, the committee said some areas of UK-EU cooperation h...

Tomorrow, starting about 11.40, there will be a debate in the Lords on the European Affairs Ctte's report, 'The Ukraine Effect'. Published back in January, but still very topical.

Colleagues in the HoL Library have produced an excellent briefing: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-eu-relati...

The Interparliamentary Forum is a relatively informal gathering of ctte representatives, which grew out of a similar forum that met during the Brexit negotiations.

It performs a useful functions in facilitating information-sharing and building relationships between cttes of the UK's legislatures.

The participants also agreed to "explore how we can encourage UK Ministers and officials to respond positively and in a timely way to requests from committees in devolved administrations to give evidence in the spirit of reciprocity", as well as to seek an update on Common Frameworks.

This was the first Interparliamentary Forum meeting since the general election, and the first time in Belfast

Participants from the NI Assembly, Scottish Parliament, Senedd, HoC and HoL agreed a joint statement: www.niassembly.gov.uk/assembly-bus...

One of the best things about my role as Lords National Parliament Representative is lots of opportunities to visit other legislatures.

It was great to be at the NI Assembly on Friday to support Lords committee chairs at a meeting of the Interparliamentary Forum, held in the old Senate chamber.

Hi Bluesky!

Since I'm an official these days I don't expect to post here too much, but it felt like the right time to sign up.

Particularly enjoying seeing more posts from the parliament nerd community, which has increasing fallen a little quiet on the other site...