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17 June 2026

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Oral questions to the Wales Office and Deputy Prime Minister lead into Prime Minister’s Questions, then an urgent question on steel safeguards probes new tariffs, EU coordination and impacts on UK and Northern Irish steel and defence supply chains, before the House turns to presenting ballot‑winning Private Members’ Bills and setting Fridays for their Second Readings, and later returns to focused Wales Questions on UK Government cost‑of‑living support, energy bills, Levelling Up funding and key Welsh projects.

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Commons questions and business — Wales, PMQs, steel and Private Members’ Bills

34:11

Oral questions — Wales Office, Deputy PM and PMQs

34:11

Wales Office questions — welfare, economy and infrastructure

34:11

Wales Office Questions — welfare, economy and infrastructure

34:11

Opening — UK welfare and cost of living in Wales

34:11

Opening and Q1/4 — UK cost of living support for Wales

34:11

Q4 follow-up — Two-child cap removal and Labour–Plaid contrast

35:55

Sectoral pressures — farming, jobs, Wylfa and UK internal market

38:46

Liberal Democrat Q — Farming costs and Iran conflict impact

38:46

Q2 and Q9 — Job creation, growth funding and universities

39:59

Supplementaries — Wylfa nuclear benefits and UK internal market

42:55

Welsh economy — tourism tax, steel, Brexit and youth NEETs

44:18

Tourism tax, hospitality sector and VAT summer discount

44:18

Plaid Cymru challenges — Steel fund, Brexit impact and EU relations

45:48

Youth NEETs — Youth guarantee and Welsh hubs

48:30

Wales Office — defence, economy and infrastructure

50:17

Wales defence spending — jobs, NATO and Union

50:17

Opposition challenge — Defence spending figures and record

54:40

Q6 — Welsh economic growth, high streets and local funding

55:55

Welsh transport infrastructure — M4 relief road and rail plan

57:44

Deputy Prime Minister questions and PMQs — security, climate and public services

01:00:26

Opening, initial mandate and opposition scrutiny

01:00:26

Opening tributes and local economic priorities

01:00:26

Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions — opening tributes and statement

01:00:26

Q1 — Town centres, high streets and local transport

01:02:01

Shadow Energy Secretary — North Sea policy and defence funding

01:03:22

Shadow Energy Secretary Qs — North Sea oil, jobs and bills

01:03:22

Shadow Energy Secretary Qs — defence funding and Energy Secretary role

01:08:22

Community security, extremism and cohesion policies

01:13:28

Community security, extremism and social cohesion

01:13:28

Sorcha Hamilton — Belfast loyalist violence and paramilitarism funding

01:13:28

Reform party candidate remarks — women and extremism

01:21:33

Jo Cox legacy, community unity and public safety

01:24:29

Asylum dispersal in rural areas and net migration

01:34:02

Defence, EU relations, climate and trade policy

01:15:37

International policy — defence, EU relations and trade

01:15:37

Liberal Democrat Leader — defence bonds and UK–EU red lines

01:15:37

Climate emergency, net zero jobs and Tory–Reform contrast

01:27:18

Steel tariffs and quotas — risk of job losses

01:28:49

Health strategy, environmental regulation and utilities oversight

01:18:30

Health, environment and utility regulation

01:18:30

Backbencher Q — Motor neurone disease strategy

01:18:30

Air quality, Clean Air Act update and prevention

01:29:53

Thames Water creditors’ deal — customers vs investors

01:32:46

PMQs — economy, AI, local services and youth

01:20:01

PMQs — economy, AI, local services and youth

01:20:01

Conservative Deputy Chair Q — Economy, jobs and conduct

01:20:01

AI robotic minicabs — jobs, regulation and safety

01:23:07

Eastbourne Pier — heritage, regeneration and costs

01:31:08

Online harms — under‑16 social media ban and Ofcom role

01:35:58

Cancer treatment access — UK‑wide standards and travel support

01:37:28

Youth hubs in Harlow — skills and Labour investment

01:38:38

Steel safeguards urgent question and Private Members’ Bills scheduling

01:40:21

Steel safeguards UQ — ministerial statement and scrutiny

01:40:21

Steel tariffs UQ — Speaker’s framing, Minister’s statement and initial scrutiny

01:40:21

Speaker’s opening and Minister’s steel tariffs statement

01:40:21

Speaker on Jo Cox unity and opening of urgent steel tariffs question

01:40:21

Urgent question — opposition challenges on steel tariffs and defence supply chains

01:43:43

Committee scrutiny and speciality steel / defence concerns

01:47:30

Select Committee Chair — fabricated steel loophole and quotas

01:47:30

Speciality steels, defence supply chain and Liberty Stocksbridge

01:49:22

Steel safeguards — regional impacts and tariffs

01:52:03

Regional impacts, downstream manufacturers and fabricated steel

01:52:03

Llanwern galvanised steel and non‑EU quota allocations

01:52:03

Downstream manufacturers vs EU competitors and fabricated steel

01:52:44

Steel safeguard crisis — uncertainty, EU talks and access to specialist grades

01:57:41

Uncertainty before 30 June and access to non‑UK grades

01:57:41

Energy prices, defence inputs and interaction with EU steel measures

02:02:16

Brexit context, EU talks and urgency on steel tariffs

02:04:35

Downstream manufacturers, regional impacts and calibration of quotas

02:07:16

Black Country manufacturers, quotas and defence investment plan

02:07:16

Specialist steels, categories 1/14/27 and calls for exemptions

02:10:33

Welsh steel fund, downstream jobs and HS code granularity

02:14:15

Steel safeguard tariffs — duration, sectors and regional impacts

02:17:54

Duration of tariff regime, agriculture concerns and spring steels

02:17:54

Steel tariffs — quotas, ‘could be made’ steel and SME impacts

02:19:39

Northern Ireland steel access and closure of urgent question

02:28:28

Private Members’ Bills — ballot outcomes and scheduling

02:29:14

Private Members’ Bills — presentation and scheduling

02:29:14

Private Members’ Bills — formal presentation and scheduling

02:29:14

Presentation of ballot bills — titles and second reading dates

02:29:14

Wales Questions — Cost of living measures

07:17:50

Wales Questions — Cost of living support

07:17:50

Wales Questions — UK cost of living support

07:17:50

Wales Q1 — UK cost of living support

07:17:50

Wales Q1 — Cost of living support headline schemes

07:17:50

Wales Q1 — Cost of living and Ynys Môn

07:24:01

Wales Q1 — Cost of living support, Holyhead and Ynys Môn

07:24:01

Wales Q1 — Cost of living support and Holyhead levelling up

07:24:01

Wales Q1 — Freeport jobs and Ynys Môn economy

07:27:28

Supplementary — Fuel duty cuts and Holyhead cost of living event

07:29:50

Wales Q1 supplementaries — volunteers, warm hubs and local food projects

07:36:28

National Security Bill — Second Reading to final Commons committee stages

02:35:53

Second Reading — timetable, threat context, oversight

02:35:53

Second Reading opened — timetable, threat context, oversight

02:35:53

Timetable approved and Second Reading opened

02:35:53

Allocation of time motion — Debate and division

02:35:53

Allocation of time — Opposition challenges scrutiny

02:35:53

Government defends urgency and House divides on timetable

02:36:55

Allocation of time motion agreed — Procedural result

02:50:53

Home Secretary — Second Reading and China threats

02:51:43

Second Reading opened — national security context

02:51:43

China threats and Hong Kong diaspora — transnational repression

02:55:43

MP Q&A — ISC oversight and Iran state threat

02:59:42

Parliamentary oversight, ISC powers and access to justice

02:59:42

Intelligence oversight — ISC powers and access to justice

02:59:42

Iran state threat, Jewish community security and current legal tools

03:02:33

Iran state threat and propaganda-linked attacks

03:02:33

ISC member — Iran intelligence threat and oversight role

03:06:23

Iran plots, arson on Jewish sites and existing tools (NSA, FIRS, sanctions)

03:08:30

Government closing and cross‑party safeguards focus

03:12:50

Home Secretary — bill powers, safeguards and closing debate

03:12:50

Home Secretary — bill scope, safeguards and offences

03:12:50

Scope of Bill — proxy groups, non‑state actors and designation power

03:12:50

Humanitarian operations safeguards and support offences in clause 2

03:15:59

NGO payments to designated bodies, benefit offence and knowledge test

03:18:11

Second Reading close — urgency, gaps, amendments

03:22:26

Home Secretary concludes Second Reading — urgency and fast‑tracking

03:22:26

Shadow Minister — support in principle, antisemitism and rushed timetable

03:23:58

Shadow Minister — four legal gaps and diplomatic immunity

03:27:28

Shadow Minister — future designations and call for amendments

03:34:54

Cross‑party support, threats and safeguards

03:36:34

Cross‑party backing — Russia, China, Iran threats

03:36:34

Labour backbencher — Russia, China, Iran and China relations concern

03:36:34

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — support for Bill and IRGC gap

03:43:11

Safeguards, scrutiny and resourcing for security powers

03:47:51

Backbencher — support for Bill, safeguards and Welsh policing

03:47:51

Dame Karen Bradley — fast‑tracking, scrutiny and future‑proofing

03:53:12

IRGC designation regime and legal framework

03:58:33

IRGC designation regime — legal tests and fast‑tracking

03:58:33

IRGC designation powers — legal basis and tests

03:58:33

IRGC threats and case for rapid designation powers

03:58:33

Luke Akehurst — IRGC, antisemitic attacks and designation powers

03:58:33

Sir Oliver Dowden — IRGC, Islamist extremism and AI-enabled state threats

04:05:05

Backbencher — support for Bill and hybrid state threats

04:19:24

Legal tests for designation and support offences

04:25:55

Sir Jeremy Wright — designation test and ‘prohibited purpose’ offence

04:25:55

Sir Jeremy Wright — ‘prohibited purpose’ vs statutory defences

04:35:59

Rapid IRGC designation and new state threats regime

04:39:54

Mark Sewards — case for rapid IRGC designation powers

04:39:54

Mark Sewards — fast‑tracking Bill and case for IRGC designation

04:39:54

IRGC after potential peace deal, sanctions limits and need for designation

04:47:32

State threats and new designation regime

04:51:28

Sir John Hayes — Russia, China, Iran threats and designation test

04:51:28

Backbencher — IRGC threat, public resilience and AI

05:03:28

National Security Bill — IRGC threat and Commons scrutiny

05:11:33

Backbench MPs — IRGC operations and UK threat network

05:11:33

Backbench MPs — IRGC threat and UK‑linked fronts

05:11:33

Backbench MPs — IRGC threat, UK impact and charity fronts

05:11:33

Bob Blackman — long‑standing Iran concerns and IRGC role

05:11:33

Bob Blackman — IRGC global terrorism and proscription gap

05:15:41

Bob Blackman — IRGC operations in UK and charity front bodies

05:19:53

Backbencher — IRGC proscription, sanctions and Iranian propaganda

05:23:05

Backbench scrutiny — IRGC‑linked charities and wider state threats

05:26:31

Tom Tugendhat — Jo Cox tribute and Iran‑linked charities

05:26:31

Tom Tugendhat — China, Wagner, TikTok and algorithmic state threats

05:33:58

National Security Bill — Second Reading to Committee scrutiny

05:39:12

Second Reading — cross‑party positions and procedural concerns

05:39:12

Second Reading — Opposition and Government closing positions

05:39:12

Shadow Minister closes Second Reading — support and call for amendments

05:39:12

Minister Angela Eagle closes Second Reading

05:48:17

From Second Reading to Kearns’ state‑threat amendments

06:01:58

From Second Reading to Committee — procedural shift and initial amendments

06:01:58

Second Reading agreed and House moves into Committee

06:01:58

Committee stage opens — Kearns on higher bar and sentencing

06:03:08

Kearns — extending counter-terror tools to hostile states

06:09:07

Amendments on preparation offences and inspired actors

06:09:07

Kearns — extraterritorial plots, propaganda and flags

06:11:12

Kearns — passport seizure, SCPOs and sanctions linkage

06:15:35

Kearns — defining transnational repression and closing gaps

06:19:33

Public Bill Committee — IRGC, prohibited purpose test and enforcement

06:22:43

Minister — defence of prohibited purpose test and sentencing approach

06:22:43

Minister — prohibited purpose test and humanitarian safeguards

06:22:43

Minister — sentencing levels and rejection of preparation, inspiration and propaganda amendments

06:35:08

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — IRGC designation, safeguards and overseas plots

06:39:45

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — IRGC designation and oversight

06:39:45

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — extraterritorial plots, lone actors and diplomatic defence

06:44:40

McDonnell — solidarity groups and broad UK interests test

06:46:39

John McDonnell — solidarity with Iranian workers and warning on rushed law

06:46:39

Cuba example — risks of over‑broad designation tests

06:51:31

McDonnell — UK interests test and super-affirmative designations

06:55:36

Amendment 1 on professional enablers and Minister’s response

06:58:52

Amendment 1 — concealing beneficial ownership for designated bodies

06:58:52

Minister — IRGC designation powers, review and rejection of Amendment 1

07:02:52

Clause 1 agreed and division on Amendment 3 to clause 2

07:07:03

Commons Bill Committee — Final stages of State Threats Bill

07:20:41

Commons Bill Committee — Final stages of State Threats Bill

07:20:41

Commons Committee — Amendment 3 division result

07:20:41

Commons Committee — Division on National Security Bill amendments

07:20:41

Committee — Division result on Amendment 3 and call for Amendment 8 vote

07:20:41

Bill Committee — Final votes on State Threats Bill

07:31:52

Bill Committee — Amendment 13 and IRGC new clause

07:31:52

Committee — Division result on Amendment 8 and move Amendment 13

07:31:52

Committee — Amendment 13 defeated, clauses 2–8 agreed and IRGC new clause 3 put to a vote

07:42:57

Wales Office — Cost of living and energy policy Q&A

07:46:40

Wales Oral Questions — Cost of living and energy policy

07:46:40

Wales Oral Questions — Cost of living and energy

07:46:40

Wales Oral Questions — Cost of living and energy policy

07:46:40

Wales Oral Questions — Cost of living and Wylfa nuclear

07:46:40

Wales Q1 — Cost of living support and Wylfa nuclear jobs

07:46:40

National Security (State Threats) Bill — Schedule vote and Third Reading debate

07:54:43

National Security (State Threats) Bill — Schedule agreed, Committee ends and Third Reading opened

07:54:43

Third Reading — Opposition support Bill but condemn truncated scrutiny and unresolved gaps

07:56:57

House of Commons

17 June 2026

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:10 - 34:14

Speaker 2

Order. Mr. Stewart.

Questions, Secretary of State for Wales. Alice Stewart.

34:14 - 34:17

Speaker 1

Question number one, Mr. Speaker.

34:17 - 34:44

Speaker 3

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And if I may, I'd like to congratulate all the Welsh recipients of King's Birthday Honours over the weekend, particularly my honourable friend the member for Newport East. And with your permission, I'll answer questions one and four together. We're doing everything we can to tackle the cost of living. We're increasing wages faster than inflation, creating thousands of jobs, helping people into work, increasing pensions and Universal Credit.

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