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24 June 2026

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Women and Equalities questions and Prime Minister’s Questions test Government positions on discrimination, hate crime, national security, EU relations and domestic policy, followed by a ministerial statement on the media Green Paper covering Ofcom’s role, PSB funding and remit, and the shift to online and IP‑based broadcasting. This segment is key for understanding cross‑government priorities, Opposition attack lines and emerging regulatory plans for media and platforms.

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Executive scrutiny — equalities, PM and media regulation

34:11

Oral questions — equalities policy and Prime Minister

34:11

Women and Equalities questions — discrimination, hate crime and regulatory framework

34:11

Women and Equalities Questions — discrimination, antisemitism, trans rights

34:11

Opening and Q1–2: session context, trans rights, antisemitism

34:11

Opening of Women and Equalities Questions

34:11

Q1 — Minister: tackling discrimination against trans people

34:27

Q1 — Backbench MPs: impact of EHRC guidance and call for vote

34:46

Q2 — Minister and MPs: whole-of-society response to antisemitism

36:59

Q3/9/11: strategy on violence against women, domestic abuse and historic abuse cases

40:02

Q3/9/11 — Minister: strategy to halve violence against women and girls

40:02

Q3/9/11 — Domestic abuse protections for women and children

40:38

Q3/9/11 — Domestic abuse-driven suicides and homicide law review

41:42

Q3/9/11 — Football narratives, professional accountability and abuse

43:13

Q3/9/11 — Online misogynistic content and domestic abuse sentencing

45:27

Q3/9/11 — Harrods and Al‑Fayed survivors’ access to justice

47:49

Women and Equalities oral questions — VAWG, conversion practices, child poverty

49:06

VAWG strategy — social media ban and school education

49:06

Q4 — Minister: legislating to ban conversion practices

50:31

Q5/10 — Child poverty strategy and libraries culture‑war dispute

52:44

Q5/10 — Attainment gap, two‑child limit and private schools

55:16

Topical Women and Equalities — Equality Act, EHRC and Islamophobia

57:03

Topical Women and Equalities — Equality Act, EHRC guidance, Islamophobia

57:03

Topical Women and Equalities — Equality Act and historic abuse cases

57:03

Topical — EHRC single‑sex guidance, Islamophobia definition and puberty blockers trial

57:48

Prime Minister’s Questions — leadership, EU relations and domestic policy

01:00:25

Opening of PMQs and Opposition Leader exchanges

01:00:25

Opening of PMQs and health policy questions

01:00:25

Transition to PMQs — Prime Minister’s opening statement

01:00:25

PMQs Q1 — Clive Jones: National Cancer Plan accountability

01:01:57

PMQs backbench Q — paediatric brain tumour research

01:03:13

Opposition Leader exchanges — defence, energy, welfare and leadership

01:04:54

PMQs — Opposition Leader: defence funding and Chancellor’s record

01:04:54

PMQs — Opposition Leader: Energy Secretary, Cabinet loyalty and succession

01:07:58

PMQs — Education Secretary, welfare policy and Speaker’s intervention

01:09:53

PMQs closing exchange — Labour record vs internal dissent

01:14:17

EU relations, climate adaptation, devolution and social policy

01:15:54

EU relations, climate policy and antisemitism

01:15:54

PMQs backbench Q — protecting Jewish community from antisemitism

01:15:54

Third-party leader: EU relations and climate policy

01:17:27

Fleur Anderson MP: heatwave resilience and adaptation

01:21:13

Devolution, health access and housing regulation

01:22:25

Plaid Cymru leader: Wales, devolution and Labour legacy

01:22:25

Paula Barker MP: access to rare disease treatment and benefits

01:23:33

Backbencher intervention: personal tribute to PM

01:25:04

Paulette Hamilton MP: exempt accommodation regulation loopholes

01:26:19

PMQs — security, welfare and community policy

01:27:52

National security, emergencies and community protection

01:27:52

Backbencher: defence investment plan and NATO commitments

01:27:52

Rachel Hopkins MP: Bedford train crash emergency response

01:29:03

Shockat Adam MP: response to anti‑Muslim hatred

01:30:42

PMQs backbench — mining welfare, online harms and community policy

01:31:53

Ian Lavery MP: CISWO charity governance and miners’ communities

01:31:53

Martin Wrigley MP: regulating social media companies

01:33:25

PMQs backbench — Gurkha attack, SNP inquiry and VAWG event

01:34:25

PMQs backbench — Windrush support, grey belt housing and youth work

01:38:44

Media and broadcasting Green Paper — regulation framework

01:42:43

Media and broadcasting regulation — Green Paper

01:42:43

Government Green Paper and platform regulation

01:42:43

Government Green Paper — media strategy and PSB transition

01:42:43

Urgent Question — Secretary of State outlines Media Green Paper

01:42:43

Q — Nigel Huddleston: DTT switch‑off, media literacy and trusted news

01:45:34

Secretary of State: transition date, media literacy and BBC trust

01:48:32

Platform regulation, Ofcom powers and future of public service media

01:51:27

Q — Dr Rupa Huq: clickbait, GB News and Ofcom powers

01:51:27

Q — Anna Sabine: BBC World Service funding and platform regulation

01:53:42

Q — Tasha Irons: British identity and PSB future

01:56:32

Select Committee chair: new Media Bill and AI literacy

01:58:08

Backbench Qs: hostile disinformation, cross‑government response and defining news

02:00:26

Broadcasting policy, PSB cuts and trusted news

02:02:46

PSB cuts, information warfare and TV resilience

02:02:46

Q — Rebecca Long‑Bailey: PSB job cuts and managed transition

02:02:46

Q — Dr Al Pinkerton: foreign bots, media literacy and national security

02:04:11

Resilient terrestrial TV and managed switchover

02:06:00

Trusted news prominence, BBC role and definitions

02:08:12

Prominence regime, trusted news and free speech

02:08:12

BBC, local news and online disinformation

02:12:20

Defining trustworthy news and funding public service media

02:15:45

Local journalism, disinformation, youth media use and BBC cuts

02:19:45

Backbench Qs — local misinformation and support for trusted news

02:19:45

Jeremy Corbyn and others — young people, social media and AI news

02:23:12

BBC cuts, local radio and Welsh language content

02:26:49

2034 terrestrial TV switch‑off and rural connectivity

02:29:28

Terrestrial TV switch‑off — rural broadband, fake AI adverts and media plurality

02:29:28

Rural and devolved concerns over 2034 IPTV transition

02:33:23

Health and agriculture — maternity safety and farming roadmap

02:36:06

Maternity and neonatal safety — Ockenden statement and scrutiny

02:36:06

Ministerial statement and cross-party response on Ockenden

02:36:06

Secretary of State statement and opposition tests

02:36:06

Health Secretary statement and opposition tests

02:36:06

Health Secretary statement — Ockenden Nottingham maternity review

02:36:06

Opposition response — apology and systemic themes

02:46:47

Opposition sets tests — listening, culture, delivery plan

02:49:58

Health Secretary — cross‑party cooperation and national taskforce

02:52:42

Initial Nottingham responses — action plan and taskforce

02:54:12

Harmed Nottingham mother MP — demand for action and oversight

02:54:12

Health Secretary — local and national implementation, accountability

02:56:02

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — maternity rescue package proposal

02:58:36

Health Secretary — breaking the cycle of unimplemented recommendations

03:00:52

Accountability mechanisms, statutory inquiry options and training reforms

03:01:58

Local accountability, resources and statutory options

03:01:58

Nottingham MP — justice, accountability and UK‑wide lessons

03:01:58

Health Secretary — assurance on action plan and ‘nothing off the table’

03:03:44

Select Committee Chair — leadership, double‑running costs and resources

03:04:54

Health Secretary — targeted funding and cultural overhaul

03:06:24

Nottingham MP — implementation timeline and statutory inquiry

03:07:31

Accountability model, statutory inquiry and training reforms

03:10:13

Former Health Secretary — clinical accountability and named teams

03:10:13

Backbench MP — statutory judge‑led inquiry and Hillsborough duty of candour

03:13:16

Robert Jenrick — training, negligence costs and comprehensive reform

03:15:26

Maternity and neonatal safety — systemic failures and government response

03:18:37

Systemic maternity failures, inquiry demands and reform agenda

03:18:37

Nationwide failures, inquiry pressure and regulatory overhaul

03:18:37

Tributes to Sherwood MP and enforcing accountability via Hillsborough Law

03:18:37

Backbench MP: nationwide failures and call for public inquiry

03:21:24

Juliet Campbell: urgent actions, monitoring and inequalities

03:23:46

Regulatory failure, CQC ratings and accountability

03:26:57

Family representation, equity and funding in maternity reform

03:28:32

Family representation on taskforce and whistleblower protections

03:28:32

Rosie Duffield MP: postcode lottery and national standards

03:35:31

Paulette Hamilton MP: racism, ring‑fencing and systemic failure

03:37:11

Maternity and neonatal safety — regulation and government response

03:40:44

Regulation, oversight and accountability in maternity and neonatal care

03:40:44

Simon Hoare MP: mortuary regulation and reassuring expectant parents

03:40:44

Adam Thompson MP and colleagues: support for brain‑injured children and mortuary review

03:44:09

Josh Fenton‑Glynn MP: maternal deaths, negligence costs and regulator culture

03:47:38

Maternity safety statement — MPs’ questions and government commitments

03:48:44

Alison Bennett MP: Sussex and Leeds reviews and Hillsborough duty of candour

03:48:44

Ben Cole MP: racial disparities, action‑plan targets and parliamentary scrutiny

03:50:49

Nottingham review — funding cuts and taskforce plan

03:53:29

Mortuary failures, Fuller Inquiry and Leeds review

03:56:42

Jonathan Davies MP — patient feedback, regulators and NHS reforms

03:59:24

Amanda Martin MP — Hillsborough Law and non‑cooperating leaders

04:03:01

Daniel Francis MP — brain injury, risk disparities and Amos review

04:05:01

Lawrence Turner — historic harms and nationwide accountability

04:07:19

Environment Secretary — 25‑year farming roadmap

04:10:21

Secretary of State roadmap and Opposition response

04:10:21

Environment Secretary roadmap and Opposition challenge

04:10:21

Environment Secretary — 25‑year farming roadmap

04:10:21

Environment Secretary statement — 25‑year farming roadmap

04:10:21

Opposition challenge and ministerial rebuttal — budgets, SFI and EU SPS

04:18:44

Shadow Environment Secretary response — budget cuts, EU reset and regulation

04:18:44

Environment Secretary — rebuttal, SFI relaunch and SPS deal

04:24:16

Farming roadmap — priorities, profitability and support instruments

04:29:04

Roadmap priorities, implementation and food security

04:29:04

Liberal Democrat priorities and sector growth — food production, tenants and innovation

04:29:04

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — food production, fairness and tenants

04:29:04

Food security, innovation funding and poultry sector growth

04:33:39

Roadmap implementation, SPS deal and scheme transition

04:35:13

Select Committee chair — Batters review implementation and public procurement target

04:35:13

EFRA Chair — EU‑UK SPS deal and transition timing

04:38:11

Scheme expiry, Natural England capacity and SFI window

04:39:14

Farm profitability, land use and food security targets

04:40:25

Profitability, planning reform and land‑use for food production

04:40:25

Water scarcity pilots and proposal for a Good Food Bill

04:43:37

Holistic farming value and food security as strategic priority

04:45:47

Farming roadmap Q&A — capital, co‑operatives and input resilience

04:47:51

Capital support, co‑operatives and input resilience

04:47:51

UK equipment, devolved engagement and co‑operative models

04:47:51

Innovation, agritech and domestic fertiliser resilience

04:50:41

Environment Secretary statement — climate, input costs and farm profitability

04:52:22

Heatwave impacts, climate adaptation and innovation funding

04:52:22

Fertiliser price shock, red diesel duty and input costs

04:54:04

Farming roadmap — supply chain fairness, reservoirs and origin labelling

04:55:46

Common land access, upland support and farmer dissatisfaction

05:00:38

SPS deal, fertilizer costs and regional farming impact

05:05:32

SFI scheme stability and conclusion of farming statement

05:07:19

House business and fiscal authorisations

05:08:24

House business and fiscal authorisations

05:08:24

House business and fiscal authorisations

05:08:24

House business and fiscal resolutions

05:08:24

Chamber procedure — points of order and business

05:08:24

Points of order — hostile language, racism and Islamophobia definition

05:08:24

Deferred division result and presentation of Private Members’ Bills

05:12:49

Ways and Means package — electricity levy, mileage and HGV VED

05:15:08

Treasury Minister — Ways and Means: electricity levy, mileage and HGV VED

05:15:08

Opposition Treasury spokesperson — scrutiny of levy duration and tax design

05:20:37

Backbench and Lib Dem views on tax and transport measures

05:25:16

Treasury Minister wind‑up — EGL duration, investment and mileage design

05:31:15

Formal approval of Ways and Means and Taxation, Energy and Vehicles Bill

05:38:22

Seventh Carbon Budget — ministerial framing and Commons debate

05:40:43

Seventh Carbon Budget — Ministerial and Committee framing

05:40:43

Carbon Budget 7 — Minister, Opposition and Committee framing

05:40:43

Government and Opposition — Carbon Budget 7 positions

05:40:43

Minister: introduction and rationale for 7th Carbon Budget

05:40:43

Minister: moves draft Carbon Budget and climate context

05:40:43

Minister: economic, security and upgrade case for net zero

05:44:23

Minister: cross‑party legacy and appeal for support

05:51:48

Shadow Secretary — critique of CB7 costs and net zero framework

05:53:37

Shadow Secretary: challenges carbon budget costings

05:53:37

Shadow Secretary: attacks CCC modelling and green jobs claims

05:59:11

Shadow Secretary: offshoring, carbon targets and repeal call

06:04:05

Shadow Secretary: alternative net zero approach and political attack

06:07:36

CB7 framework and cross‑party climate rationale

06:11:33

EAC Chair — defence of CB7, evidence on green economy and fair transition

06:11:33

EAC Chair Toby Perkins — defending CB7 framework and cross‑party legacy

06:11:33

EAC findings — green economy, business certainty and fair transition

06:16:41

CB7 debate opening — party responses and economic framing

06:22:40

Liberal Democrat response and pro‑CB7 delivery priorities

06:22:40

Liberal Democrat stance on CB7 and net zero delivery

06:22:40

Backbench limit and Lib Dem: heatwave impacts and climate urgency

06:22:40

Lib Dem spokesperson: defence of net zero targets and climate leadership

06:29:17

Lib Dem spokesperson: delivery, electrification and local authority role

06:35:10

Support for CB7 — climate leadership and delivery

06:40:08

Labour backbencher: support for CB7 and urgency of climate leadership

06:40:08

Housing retrofit and Warm Homes Plan — technical support for households

06:47:40

Greenhouse gas removals, aviation and cement CCS

06:51:51

Carbon Budget 7 — party lines and economic critiques

06:56:07

Carbon Budget 7 — divergent party stances on net zero

06:56:07

Conservative MP: opposing CB7 costs and lifestyle changes

06:56:07

Barry Gardiner: defending net zero jobs and holistic approach

07:01:56

Richard Tice: ‘net zero’ as de‑industrialisation and high‑cost energy

07:05:18

Deputy Speaker and CB7 economic and technological critiques

07:13:02

Deputy Speaker: tighter time limits and decorum

07:13:02

Justin Madders MP: ZEV mandate realism and deposit return concerns

07:13:33

John Milne MP: credibility of CB7, CCS assumptions and aviation

07:18:48

Steve Race MP: climate tech, regulators and planning reform

07:22:35

Conservative backbencher: opposing CB7 on cost, China and North Sea oil

07:27:46

Seventh Carbon Budget — parliamentary debate on scope and impacts

07:34:07

Seventh Carbon Budget — cross-party case and sector gaps

07:34:07

CB7 mandate — support, sector gaps and economic case

07:34:07

CB7 support — climate justice and sector delivery gaps

07:34:07

Climate‑justice case for CB7 — Chris Hinchliff MP

07:34:07

Caroline Voaden MP: farming, transport and heat‑pump gaps

07:38:01

Fleur Anderson MP — heatwave impacts and Heathrow expansion

07:42:03

Party positions — Greens and Labour on fossil fuels and delivery tools

07:46:30

Green Party — support for CB7, heatproofing and ending new oil and gas

07:46:30

Backbencher — defending science‑based targets and delivery tools

07:51:00

Economic case for CB7 and local delivery

07:54:30

Richard Foord MP — economic case for net zero leadership

07:54:30

Backbencher: local authorities, fairness and EV charging

07:57:22

Vikki Slade MP: climate resilience and Dorset incinerator

08:02:46

Backbench arguments and public consent for Seventh Carbon Budget

08:05:41

Public consent, just transition and climate narrative

08:05:41

Backbencher: public consent and a just transition

08:05:41

Cat Eccles MP: climate urgency, misinformation and net zero narrative

08:08:20

Backbench case for the Seventh Carbon Budget

08:11:23

Gideon Amos MP: gas‑price crisis, renewables and fracking risks

08:11:23

Labour backbenchers: air quality, ULEZ and green hydrogen

08:14:11

Regional net zero benefits — Teesside and Portsmouth

08:20:11

Backbencher: heatwave impacts and case for CB7

08:26:22

Commons closing: climate votes and adjournment

08:29:22

Commons closing business — climate votes, petitions and adjournment

08:29:22

End-of-day Commons business — climate votes, petitions and adjournment

08:29:22

Climate measures — minister’s closing remarks and votes

08:29:22

Seventh Carbon Budget — minister’s closing and vote

08:29:22

Minister’s closing reply on CB7 and challenge to opposition

08:29:22

CB7 Carbon Budget Order — division and result

08:33:58

Statutory climate and tribunal instruments — divisions and approvals

08:46:51

International Aviation and Shipping Regulations — formal motion and division

08:46:51

Credit Limit Order — division and approval

08:59:44

Motions on climate change levy and employment tribunals

09:10:32

Public petitions and adjournment debate on local issues

09:11:30

Public petitions — rural support and local planning

09:11:30

Public petitions — rural support and Newcastle-under-Lyme green belt

09:11:30

Adjournment debate — Bramhall High School rebuild

09:14:38

Adjournment secured — case for full Bramhall High rebuild

09:14:38

Education Minister: national capital strategy and Bramhall rebuild scope

09:25:16

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Wed, 24 Jun 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:10 - 34:23

Speaker 3

Order. Motions of the opposed return, Minister to move. The question is, we now come to questions, Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Sarah Coombes.

34:23 - 34:24

Number one please, Mr. Speaker.

34:24 - 34:26

Speaker 1

Minister.

34:26 - 34:27

Speaker 2

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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