Members discuss draft law to introduce new multiplier standards and remove relief rates from charitable private schools.

Members of the Lords quiz the government on energy usage in mining cryptocurrencies, community pharmacy closures, children's wellbeing, Ofwat fines against water companies, and Taliban restrictions ...

TV cameras broadcasting from the House of Lords chamber. Proceedings were televised on BBC1 and BBC2 for the first time on 23 ...

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25 was introduced on 17 December 2024. The bill had its second reading on 8 ...

Members discuss proposed changes on legislation to implement new rates announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Crown Estate Bill (Bill 135 of 2024–25) was introduced to the House of Commons on 19 November 2024. It started in the ...

The Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has today (21 January) published its decision (pdf, 305KB) dismissing an appeal by Colonel ...

Within a year of Great Britain declaring war on Germany in August 1914, it had become obvious that it was not possible to continue fighting by relying on voluntary recruits. Lord Kitchener's campaign ...

Members of the House of Lords resume their line by line scrutiny of the Mental Health Bill in committee stage on Wednesday 22 January. The Mental Health Bill seeks to amend the Mental Health Act 1983.

With the return to peace at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 military expenditure was heavily reduced. As a result the regular army was gradually slimmed down from 230,000 men to 91,000 by 1838.

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Women who held property of any kind were required to give up all rights to it to their husbands on marriage. However, a long-running campaign by various women's groups led in 1870 to the Married Women ...