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8 September 2026

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Oral Treasury Questions focus on fiscal rules, tax thresholds, business rates and regional growth support, with ministers defending a stability‑focused, investment‑oriented stance ahead of the Budget.

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Treasury Questions — fiscal rules, tax and spending

34:16

Treasury Questions and fiscal policy priorities

34:16

Treasury Questions — growth, tax and regional funding

34:16

Treasury Questions — national growth, tax, Brexit and regional investment

34:16

Opening formalities and shift to Treasury Questions

34:16

Regional growth, devolution and G7 performance

35:41

Budget constraints, tax levels and strategic investment

38:19

Personal allowance, tax burden and macroeconomic narrative

41:09

Brexit, EU alignment and growth strategy

44:52

Treasury Q2 & Q11 — devolving powers to attract private investment

46:39

Treasury — business rates, pubs and high street policy

52:15

Treasury Q3/18/20/23 — initial support package for pubs and hospitality

52:15

Treasury — hospitality relief vs VAT cuts and full rates overhaul (I)

56:36

Treasury — hospitality relief vs VAT cuts and full rates overhaul (II)

59:42

Treasury Q4 — business rates and high street renewal

01:02:26

Core Treasury Questions — regional funding, fuel duty, public sector productivity

01:07:43

Treasury Q5 & Q16 — regional funding, devolution and rural equity

01:07:43

Treasury Q6 & Q22 — fuel duty freeze, cost of living and motorists

01:12:31

Treasury Q7 — public sector productivity and pay discipline

01:17:54

Topical Treasury Questions — fiscal stance and sector pressures

01:21:50

Topical Treasury Q&A — fiscal rules, growth strategy and youth unemployment

01:21:50

Topical Treasury — fiscal rules, rural buses and child trust funds

01:21:50

Topical Treasury — new Shadow Chancellor, tax flight and growth agenda

01:24:21

Topical Treasury — East Midlands affordability, demand and supply-side growth, youth unemployment

01:27:47

Topical Treasury Questions — fiscal stance and sector support

01:29:43

Topical Treasury — Speaker’s timing warning, hospitality VAT and Truss mini-budget legacy

01:29:43

Topical Treasury — birth trauma costs, youth jobs and local funding

01:32:15

Topical Treasury — hospitality tax, rural banking and online fraud levy

01:35:11

Topical Treasury — Northern Ireland budget, devolution, welfare and health compensation

01:38:11

Falkland Islands UQ — sovereignty, hydrocarbons and defence posture

01:43:27

Falkland Islands UQ — sovereignty and defence guarantees

01:43:27

Falklands UQ — sovereignty, oil and islanders’ self‑determination

01:43:27

Government position on Falklands sovereignty and oil

01:43:27

Urgent Question — government stance on Falklands sovereignty and defence

01:43:27

Opposition: Israeli minister, Navitas and Falklands oil

01:47:56

Shadow Foreign Secretary: sovereignty, US diplomacy and Argentine sanctions

01:49:23

Overseas territories, South Atlantic forces and Argentine threat

01:51:57

Overseas territories’ welfare and strategic deterrence posture

01:51:57

Argentine build-up, UK defence spending and veterans’ perspective

01:54:28

Veterans, sovereignty finality and protection of Falklands operators

01:56:15

Personal ties to 1982 war and rejection of renewed sovereignty claims

01:56:15

Commercial operators’ protection and alliance with the United States

01:59:38

Falklands UQ — defence posture, guarantees and allies

02:02:26

Falklands UQ — defence review and deterrence

02:02:26

Collective defence, European partners and calls for Falklands review

02:02:26

Falklands UQ — defence review and deterrence posture

02:05:19

Falklands UQ — cross-party unity, allies and guarantees

02:10:09

Falklands UQ — unity across parties and military infrastructure

02:10:09

Falklands UQ — external actors, US alliance and closing guarantees

02:15:07

Israel–Palestine policy — occupation, Gaza and settlement sanctions

02:20:13

Government position and initial scrutiny on Israel–Palestine

02:20:13

Government position on Israel–Palestine and occupation legality

02:20:13

Minister’s Israel–Palestine stance and West Bank legality

02:20:13

Israel–Palestine statement — personal context, antisemitism and two‑state commitment

02:20:13

West Bank settlements, ethnic cleansing and unlawful occupation

02:26:24

Foreign Secretary — Gaza crisis, sanctions and settlement measures

02:30:34

UK sanctions regime on settlements, trade and arms exports

02:30:34

Foreign Secretary — Gaza atrocities and humanitarian law

02:33:58

Foreign Secretary — Gaza aid measures, sanctions and ICJ support

02:36:34

Foreign Secretary — settlement goods import ban and international coalition

02:39:00

Sanctions policy — opposition and cross‑party scrutiny

02:41:13

Opposition challenge — sanctions, recognition and security

02:41:13

Shadow Foreign Secretary — support for Israel and critique of recognition and sanctions

02:41:13

Shadow Foreign Secretary — six questions on sanctions, security and recognition

02:45:35

Foreign Secretary — response to Shadow and case for acting on illegal occupation

02:49:14

Committee and Liberal Democrat scrutiny of ICJ and sanctions regime

02:53:33

Foreign Affairs Committee chair — praise and call for rapid sanctions rollout

02:53:33

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — backing for measures and detailed questions on ICJ, sanctions and elections

02:55:35

Foreign Secretary — ICJ concurrence, F‑35 supply chain and extended sanctions tools

03:00:02

Sanctions under SAMLA and political backing

03:03:37

Liam Byrne and Edward Leigh — new SAMLA powers and conservative backing

03:03:37

Backbench support — ICJ ruling, occupation and UN action

03:07:54

Israeli elections, government vs people and timing of UK action

03:10:41

UK sanctions on Israeli settlements and Palestine policy

03:14:08

Settlement sanctions design and legal implementation

03:14:08

Implementation details, religious exemptions and legal avenues

03:14:08

Religious import exemptions and Jewish community reassurance

03:14:08

Palestinian representation, cross-party cooperation and universal jurisdiction

03:16:42

Sanctions regime — diplomatic impact, timing and legal framing

03:19:03

Impact on UK–Israel relations, Green Line distinction and Gaza medical support

03:19:03

Backbench challenge — sanctions timing, further measures and WCK killings

03:22:21

ICJ/ICC support and sanctions seen as symbolic vs substantive

03:25:42

Recognition of Palestine and scope of settlement sanctions

03:28:43

Recognition, PA viability and scope of settlement sanctions

03:28:43

Two‑state viability — recognition timing, PA revenues and UK firms

03:28:43

Settler terrorism, IDF complicity and sanctions enforcement

03:32:32

Ben-Gvir Falklands remark, settlement trade controls and BDS concerns

03:36:33

Palestinian detainees, public contracts and centrality of Israel–Palestine

03:39:37

Sanctions rationale, UK interests and Gaza situation

03:43:08

Effectiveness of sanctions, UK interests and implementation pace

03:43:08

Gaza children’s healthcare, total withdrawal and UK intelligence ties

03:45:56

Israel–Palestine — sanctions design, legal basis and accountability

03:48:45

Designing sanctions, antisemitism concerns and financial actors

03:48:45

Sanctions, antisemitism risks and SAMLA implementation

03:48:45

Banks, UK individuals and protecting Palestinian and Jewish children

03:55:29

Settlement sanctions — external pressure and legal basis

03:59:26

Resisting US/Israeli pressure, Green Line trade and access

03:59:26

Sanctions timing, war crimes accountability and ICJ compliance

04:05:58

Israel–Palestine statement — sanctions, arms controls and accountability

04:10:47

Solidarity with West Bank communities and enforcing arms and trade controls

04:10:47

BDS, genocide allegations, arms embargo demands and domestic cohesion

04:16:41

Protecting Palestinian education, ICJ resourcing and two-state commitment

04:19:38

Israel–Palestine statement — settlements, E1 and accountability

04:21:58

Israel–Palestine statement — war crimes evidence, charities and closing

04:27:22

Digital harms and AI — child safety and superintelligence controls

04:32:06

Online Safety Act — child protection framework

04:32:06

Government statement on device‑level child protection

04:32:06

Government statement and frontbench response on device‑level child protection

04:32:06

Online Safety statement — government plan for device-level child protection

04:32:06

Shadow DCMS: support for device controls and questions on timetable

04:38:35

Secretary of State: commitment to legislate and under‑16 social media ban

04:42:34

Extending the child online safety package beyond social media

04:46:54

Former DCMS Secretary Liz Kendall: wider child online safety package

04:46:54

Liberal Democrat spokesperson: urgency, independence and privacy safeguards

04:49:02

Online Safety Act — child protections and enforcement

04:52:27

Strategic child image protections and Ofcom enforcement

04:52:27

Backbencher: focus on blocking image capture and global coordination

04:52:27

Online Safety — Ofcom enforcement and interim pressure on tech

04:55:33

Specific child safeguards — doxxing, live streaming and age assurance

05:02:05

Online Safety Q&A — doxxing, legacy devices and live streaming

05:02:05

Online Safety — age assurance, AI companions and urgent rollout

05:08:52

Online Safety statement — final Q&A on harms and enforcement

05:16:59

Online Safety — in‑game adverts, child perpetrators and disinformation

05:16:59

Online Safety statement — final questions on VPNs, grooming and global tech governance

05:25:37

Ten Minute Rule — Artificial Superintelligence Prohibition Bill

05:34:28

Commons business — Ten Minute Rule and AI prohibition bill

05:34:28

House business — bill presentation and Artificial Superintelligence Ten Minute Rule

05:34:28

Presentation of Bills — Illegal Trading (Temporary Closure of Premises) Bill

05:34:28

Ten Minute Rule Motion — Artificial Superintelligence Prohibition Bill (scope and rationale)

05:34:53

Artificial Superintelligence Bill — definition, controls and global treaty

05:39:27

Artificial Superintelligence Bill — procedural opposition and leave granted

05:44:27

Health legislation, regulation and ministerial responses

05:47:15

Regulatory reforms and clinical service issues

05:47:15

Regulatory reforms — medical devices and safety investigations

05:47:15

Regulatory framework — devices, MHRA and HSIB/CQC

05:47:15

Health Bill — new clause 94 on medical device licensing and MHRA data-sharing powers

05:47:15

Health Bill — HSIB safe space and CQC merger

05:51:35

HSIB amendments, maternity safety and GP referral rationing

05:55:54

Clinical services and patient voice — gender medicine, radiotherapy and Healthwatch

05:58:32

Gender medicine, single‑sex spaces and patient voice

05:58:32

Puberty blockers trial — ethical, clinical and data concerns

05:58:32

Single-sex NHS spaces, Darlington nurses and guidance

06:01:02

Healthwatch abolition and other patient safety amendments

06:05:11

Radiotherapy new clauses 113–114 — access, metrics and commissioning

06:07:45

Radiotherapy clauses 113–114 — metrics, review and commissioning

06:07:45

Radiotherapy new clauses 113–114 — cancer targets and ICB commissioning

06:10:46

Patient safety and regulatory independence — Healthwatch, HSIB and funeral sector oversight

06:13:49

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — Healthwatch, HSIB and corridor care crisis

06:13:49

New clause 41 — statutory regulation of funeral directors and mortuaries

06:23:52

Health Bill — backbench amendments and ministerial reply

06:20:49

Backbench amendments on NHS access and patient safety

06:20:49

NHS access standards, care coordination and commissioning

06:20:49

Amendment 159 — statutory mental health waiting-time standards

06:20:49

NC81 — family coordinator for seriously ill children

06:29:03

NC137 — safeguarding cancer outcomes in the National Cancer Plan

06:32:06

IVF postcode lottery, VCSE role and opposition to NC142–143

06:35:09

Backbench new clauses — HSIB, psychedelics and patient access

06:38:13

HSIB abolition — independence, safe space and cost of inquiries

06:38:13

NC86–87 — psychedelic-assisted therapies research and compassionate access

06:41:25

Backbencher NC116–117 — NHS medical cannabis and speech therapy access

06:44:18

Health Bill — ministerial response and concluding stages

06:46:20

Ministerial response — scrutiny bodies, inequalities and clinical issues

06:46:20

Minister — Healthwatch abolition, HSIB transfer and tackling inequalities and corridor care

06:46:20

Minister — support for families of seriously ill children, puberty blockers trial, single-sex NHS spaces and funeral regulation

06:54:53

Health Bill — outstanding questions and initial divisions

07:00:25

Health Bill consideration — NC94 and government new clauses agreed

07:00:25

Health Bill — division on Liberal Democrat new clause 140

07:02:11

Health Bill — final divisions and Third Reading

07:15:18

Health Bill — division on Opposition new clause 142 (puberty blockers trial)

07:15:18

Health Bill — division on Opposition new clause 143 (single-sex NHS spaces)

07:28:03

Health Bill — division on Amendment 1

07:39:36

Health Bill — government amendments agreed and Third Reading

07:51:28

House business and retirement housing regulation

07:59:39

House business and retirement housing abuses debate

07:59:39

House business and retirement housing abuses debate

07:59:39

House business — remaining orders and public petitions

07:59:39

Remaining orders on licences, buildings and information; draft Conversion Practices Bill not moved

07:59:39

Public petitions — Leicester boundary expansion and Copthorne Hotel asylum use

08:01:02

Debate opening — abuses in retirement property management

08:04:56

Adjournment opened — retirement property management abuses

08:04:56

Calls for stronger regulation, transparency and probate protections

08:09:11

National scale of issue and proposed regulatory reforms

08:16:01

National scale of problem and proposed regulatory reforms

08:16:01

Fit-and-proper tests, resident welfare and sham representation

08:19:37

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House of Commons

8 September 2026

Tue, 8 Sept 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:16 - 34:21

Speaker 4

Order. We start with the motion on the Committee of Selection. Whip to move.

34:21 - 34:22

I beg to move.

34:22 - 34:35

Speaker 5

The question is as on the order paper. As many of that opinion say aye. Aye. The contrary no. I think the ayes have it, the ayes have it.

We now come to questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Elaine Stewart.

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