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9 September 2026

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Grouped scrutiny of Women and Equalities policy, Prime Minister’s cross‑cutting responsibilities and the Health Secretary’s NHS resilience statement, covering legal safeguards, social cohesion, defence and welfare choices, and operational pressures across health and social care.

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Oral questions — Equalities, Prime Minister and NHS resilience

34:05

Women and Equalities questions — legal protections and access

34:05

Women and Equalities questions — legal protections and disability access

34:05

Opening — privacy, cohesion and disability access

34:05

Opening and Q1 — smart glasses and women’s privacy

34:05

Q2 — social cohesion, Reform Party conduct and anti-Muslim hostility

36:48

Q3 — accessibility of Government services for disabled people

39:58

Equalities policy — conversion practices and child poverty

41:36

Q4 — draft conversion practices bill and trans-inclusive ban

41:36

Q5 — child poverty, two-child cap and childcare access

42:56

Women and Equalities questions — VAWG, SEND and conversion practices

45:01

Qs 6,7,9,10 — halving violence against women and girls

45:01

VAWG strategy — early release, sentencing and offender controls

47:34

Q8 — neurodivergent and dyslexic girls: early diagnosis

52:16

Topical Women & Equalities — class unit and conversion practices bill

54:05

Topical Qs — puberty blockers and assisted dying safeguards

55:38

Topical Qs — tech-enabled voyeurism and autistic women’s suicide risk

57:59

Prime Minister’s Questions — defence, welfare and constituency impacts

01:00:02

Prime Minister’s Questions — defence, welfare and foreign policy

01:00:02

PMQs opening and Opposition leader defence challenge

01:00:02

PMQs opening — 9/11, policing tribute and Kilmarnock regeneration

01:00:02

Opposition leader Q1 — 3% defence target and Chancellor’s resignation

01:03:03

Defence funding versus welfare and tax base

01:07:42

Chagos Islands, Falklands and defence spending record

01:10:30

Closing exchange — ‘continuity Keir’ vs UK leadership on Palestine

01:13:49

Prime Minister’s Questions — local services, costs and national policy

01:16:15

Constituency services and national oversight — health, post, AI

01:16:15

Backbencher Q — Warrington infrastructure and leisure facilities

01:16:15

Lib Dem leader — maternity safety and AI security

01:17:56

Royal Mail service failures and universal service duty

01:22:24

Household costs, safety regulation and community energy access

01:23:56

Cost of living emergency — VAT cut on electricity and bus fare cap

01:23:56

E‑bike battery fires — regulation of substandard imports

01:25:36

Community energy — market access and local power plan

01:27:06

Local connectivity, governance boundaries and employment retention

01:28:21

Gravesend–Tilbury ferry — restoring local connectivity

01:28:21

Leicester boundary changes — local consent and reform

01:29:48

BT Openreach Liverpool hub closure and local transport powers

01:31:13

Prime Minister’s Questions — constituency, economic and security issues

01:33:07

Welsh hospitality VAT request and pub support

01:33:07

AI data centres — local disruption and national strategy

01:34:38

Scottish independence — legal basis for a second referendum

01:36:18

Sophie's Law — perinatal mental health checks

01:37:41

Hertfordshire mental health beds and out-of-area placements

01:39:02

Stourbridge wildfires — resourcing future fire and rescue duties

01:40:09

Israel diplomatic row — security advice and two-state solution

01:41:41

NHS resilience statement and extended scrutiny

01:44:48

Ministerial statement and opposition challenge — NHS seasonal and heat resilience

01:44:48

Health Secretary statement — NHS pressures and heat resilience

01:44:48

Health Secretary statement — NHS values, pressures and summer heat impacts

01:44:48

Capital estates programme — safety fund and extreme heat resilience

01:49:22

Health Secretary — heat taskforce, social care and Casey commission

01:51:18

Opposition response and ministerial reply — seasonal NHS resilience

01:53:49

Shadow Health Secretary — critique of summer preparedness and questions on winter

01:53:49

Health Secretary — response on summer performance and seasonal resilience

01:56:47

Health Secretary Q&A — NHS pressures, estates and resilience

01:59:45

Operational pressures — ambulance queues, corridor care, heat

01:59:45

Backbencher Q — ambulance queues and staff rest facilities

01:59:45

Lib Dem spokesperson — NHS ‘perma-crisis’, heat-proofing and corridor care

02:01:21

Heat-resilient estates funding and local hospital upgrades

02:09:06

Staff safety, system risks and workforce resilience

02:05:55

Abuse against NHS staff and HSIB safety concerns

02:05:55

Select Committee chair — corridor care, staff leave and workforce plan

02:12:42

Health Secretary Q&A — NHS estates, urgent care and heat resilience

02:16:41

Healthwatch abolition, patient voice and hospital capital pressures

02:16:41

Backbench Qs — urgent care, estates backlog and Better Care Fund

02:21:36

Heat-resilient NHS and social care — backbench Q&A

02:34:11

Ministerial statements — Education reform and industrial impacts

02:45:27

Education Secretary — reform mandate and 14–19 pathways

02:45:27

Secretary’s reform mandate and 14–19 pathways debate

02:45:27

Education Secretary — PISA results and reform mandate

02:45:27

Education Secretary statement — PISA results and system failings

02:45:27

Education reform vision — AI era, SEND and technical pathways from 14

02:52:16

Curriculum, assessment and devolution — broader offer and partnership with mayors

02:54:39

Shadow critique and ministerial defence of 14–19 technical pathways

02:55:26

Shadow Education Secretary — criticism of 14–19 technical pathway reform

02:55:26

Education Secretary rebuttal — multiple routes, not two tiers

03:00:45

Committee scrutiny — FE funding and technical pathways

03:04:15

Parliamentary scrutiny of FE funding, VAT and parity of esteem

03:04:15

Education Committee chair — FE attendance and VAT anomaly

03:04:15

Lib Dem spokesperson — parity of esteem and funding

03:06:18

Careers guidance, employer links and SEND reforms

03:09:52

Designing technical pathways, curriculum metrics and FE workforce

03:12:52

Technical pathways, Progress 8 and creative subjects

03:12:52

FE staff shortages and AI‑resilient trades

03:14:14

Education Secretary — SEND, attainment and technical routes

03:17:39

Backbench scrutiny — SEND, PISA performance and regional gaps

03:17:39

Local SEND performance and white working‑class boys

03:17:39

Backbencher Qs — PISA gaps, resits and North East attainment

03:22:04

Education Secretary Q&A — technical routes, SEND and regional gaps

03:27:34

Technical pathways — degree apprenticeships, SEND settings and qualification choice

03:27:34

Transition from BTECs to T- and V-levels — certainty and work placements

03:31:21

Apprenticeships, small employers’ tax burden and repurposing surplus estates

03:32:32

Education Q&A — SEND absence, creative subjects and coastal gaps

03:36:32

Business Minister statement on Jaguar Land Rover redundancies

03:42:43

Ministerial statement on Jaguar Land Rover redundancies

03:42:43

Opening and Minister’s statement on Jaguar Land Rover

03:42:43

Procedural handover — move to Jaguar Land Rover statement

03:42:43

Government statement — Jaguar Land Rover redundancies and automotive support

03:43:23

JLR job cuts — parliamentary Q&A on impacts and support

03:51:49

JLR redundancies — Opposition challenge and regional impacts

03:51:49

Opposition response — deindustrialisation, ZEV mandate and energy costs

03:51:49

JLR redundancies — Chair and Lib Dem response on China, energy and EU trade

04:00:07

Regional supply chain impacts — Halewood, Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Coventry

04:06:56

Automotive sector support and JLR redundancies

04:13:08

Support for SMEs, finance access and cyberattack accountability

04:13:08

Future support, worker protections and pensions after JLR cuts

04:14:17

JLR redundancies — China, AI and supply chain resilience

04:22:39

Ten Minute Rule Bill — Personal Data and AI ‘Digital Twins’

04:32:57

Ten Minute Rule Bill — Personal Data and AI ‘Digital Twins’

04:32:57

Ten Minute Rule Bill — Personal Data (Digital Twins)

04:32:57

Ten Minute Rule — Personal Data (Digital Twins) Bill

04:32:57

Ten Minute Rule — Personal Data (Digital Twins) Bill

04:32:57

Leave granted, sponsors named and second reading set

04:42:11

Civil Aviation Bill Second Reading — Government, Opposition and backbench scrutiny

04:43:23

Opening procedures and Government–Opposition positions

04:43:23

Procedural point and Civil Aviation Bill opening

04:43:23

Point of order — Reform UK foreign funding investigation

04:43:23

Point of order — Reform UK foreign funding probe

04:43:23

Government introduction — NATS outage and Bill purpose

04:44:43

Civil Aviation Bill — NATS outage, apology and review

04:44:43

Civil Aviation Bill — passenger rights, accessibility and CAA powers

04:49:28

Government and Opposition frontbench positions on Civil Aviation Bill

04:53:51

Government — airspace modernisation, noise, slots and safety regime

04:53:51

Secretary of State — airspace modernisation and local noise concerns

04:53:51

Airspace noise thresholds, emissions trade-offs and airport slot powers

04:58:19

Safety framework reform, CAA rule-making and airport expansion limits

05:02:58

Opposition frontbench — NATS outage and stance on Civil Aviation Bill

05:06:13

Shadow Transport Secretary — NATS outage accountability and support for Bill

05:06:13

Airport drop-off charges, taxation and aviation growth

05:10:28

Backbench concerns — NATS outage, charges and accessibility

05:18:48

Ruth Cadbury — NATS outage, passenger rights and airport access

05:18:48

Civil Aviation Bill context — NATS outage and passenger rights

05:18:48

Deputy Speaker clarification and NATS outage resilience concerns

05:18:48

Passenger rights — ‘extraordinary circumstances’ and disabled access

05:23:11

Airport access, airspace modernisation and workforce protection

05:30:51

Airport drop-off charges and inadequate public transport links

05:30:51

Airspace modernisation, abusive passengers and EU aviation standards

05:37:03

Commons debate — aviation noise, ATC resilience and passenger rights

05:39:44

Aviation Bill — noise regulation and environmental safeguards

05:39:44

Heathrow noise, insulation schemes and regulatory ‘teeth’

05:39:44

Lib Dem spokesperson — delegated powers, environment and passenger charter

05:43:06

Backbenchers — disabled passengers, ATC failures and passenger rights

05:46:57

Backbencher contribution — disabled passengers, drop-off charges and ATC workforce

05:46:57

Deferred division result — Northern Ireland plant health regulations

05:54:38

Luke Taylor — decarbonisation, airspace reform and passenger rights

05:55:07

Civil Aviation Bill — backbench concerns and government stance

06:12:17

Backbench MPs — airport charges, accessibility and CAA powers

06:12:17

East Midlands Airport — parking charges, accessibility and staff welfare

06:12:17

Backbencher — East Midlands Airport, parking charges and surface access

06:12:17

Backbencher — accessibility consultation, food allergies and crew welfare

06:19:34

NATS outage, CAA powers and airspace noise

06:22:24

SNP spokesperson — NATS outage costs, Lords amendment 33 and e‑visa boarding rights

06:22:24

Backbencher — CAA consumer powers and airport drop-off charges

06:30:39

Backbencher — Gatwick flight paths and call for aviation ombudsman

06:39:41

John McDonnell — CAA accountability, NATS failures and noise health impacts

06:46:05

Backbench MPs — regional airports, accessibility and staff safety

07:01:08

Regional airports — support for Newquay and passenger protections

07:01:08

Backbencher — Heathrow resilience, consumer rights and abusive passengers

07:08:53

Backbencher — accessibility reforms, Luton flight paths and staff safety

07:20:29

Civil Aviation Bill — Opposition critique and ministerial response

07:28:51

Opposition front bench — NATS failures and consumer protection

07:28:51

Shadow Minister — NATS outage scrutiny and drop-off charges

07:28:51

Shadow Minister — Lord Young amendment, compensation and Bill support

07:33:06

Minister — NATS outage, airport access and CAA powers

07:34:56

Minister — NATS outage, CAA review timetable and Speaker issue

07:34:56

Minister — airport drop-off review and blue badge exemptions

07:39:47

Minister’s closing response — Heathrow access, passenger rights and CAA powers

07:42:51

Civil Aviation Bill closure and NATS blackout request

07:57:08

Civil Aviation Bill conclusion and NATS blackout

07:57:08

Civil Aviation Bill concluded and NATS blackout point of order

07:57:08

Civil Aviation Bill — Second Reading agreed and programme motions

07:57:08

Adjournment debate — online ticket resale and consumer protection

07:59:00

Adjournment — online ticket resale regulation

07:59:00

Adjournment debate — online ticket resale regulation

07:59:00

Adjournment debate opened — ticket resale harms

07:59:00

Adjournment motion and call to regulate ticket resale

07:59:00

Rip-off resale, drip pricing and transparency duties

08:02:36

Queueing barriers, price caps and social exclusion

08:05:27

Proposed regulatory model and international precedents

08:09:19

Ethical resale models, affordability and industry power

08:09:19

International precedents, service fees and demand for a UK bill

08:14:54

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House of Commons

9 September 2026

Wed, 9 Sept 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:05 - 34:05

Before we begin, I note that a greater than usual number of members are standing.

34:14 - 34:33

Speaker 3

Transfers are of course a matter for the Minister, but I would gently urge the Minister to clarify any change in cross-departmental responsibilities and to always ensure that members affected by any transfers are properly notified. Order, we start with questions, Minister for Women and Equalities, Dame Meg Hillier.

34:33 - 34:37

Speaker 1

Number one, Mr. Speaker.

34:37 - 34:49

Speaker 2

Mr. Speaker, covert filming using smart glasses can raise serious privacy concerns, and it's important that we spread awareness that criminal offences such as voyeurism already cover their most harmful uses.

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