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30 June 2026

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From oral justice questions and the urgent question on Northern Ireland steel tariffs and post‑Brexit trade, the House moves to the ministerial statement on national maternity and neonatal failures, examining safety reforms, accountability and inequalities across services.

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Justice questions, NI trade and maternity safety failures

34:24

Justice questions and NI trade urgent issue

34:24

Justice questions — courts, prisons and judicial resources

34:24

Courts, magistrates and prison management

34:24

Q1 — Magistrates recruitment strategy and follow‑up

34:24

Opening and Q1 — Magistrates recruitment targets

34:24

Q1 follow‑ups — Age profile and legal advisers

37:22

Court system reforms — SLAPPs and jury trials

39:31

Q2 — SLAPPs: legislative timetable and scope

39:31

Q3 — Jury trial reforms and court backlogs

43:46

Prison policy — Transgender prisoners and release errors

48:44

Q4 — Transgender prisoners in women’s estate

48:44

Q5 — Prisoners released in error and early release policy

51:34

Justice questions — serious violence, victims and family justice

54:19

Domestic abuse, victims and family justice reform

54:19

Domestic abuse, victim funding and early release impacts

54:19

Q6/7/20 — Funding for domestic abuse and child contact services

54:19

Women’s refuges, empty homes and cross-government coordination

57:06

Domestic abuse, child homicide law and CSA prosecutions

58:33

Domestic abuse narratives and early prisoner release impact on victims

01:00:36

Family courts, prison security and wills reform

01:04:33

Q8 — Family justice reform and 50/50 care

01:04:33

Q10 — Drones smuggling contraband into prisons

01:06:59

Q11 — Modernising wills law and predatory marriage

01:09:44

Justice questions — serious violence, victims and family courts

01:11:54

Serious violence, knife crime and youth justice

01:11:54

Q12 & Q21 — Knife crime sentencing and youth prevention

01:11:54

Knife crime prevention and age of criminal responsibility

01:24:05

Sentencing for attacks on frontline staff and overseas jurisdiction

01:26:05

Magistrates recruitment, prison road safety and prisoner transfers

01:32:50

Justice topicals — victims’ access, domestic homicide and jury trials

01:17:47

Q13 — Free court transcripts for victims

01:17:47

Topicals opening — 25‑year starting point for domestic murders

01:21:52

Women in the justice system and online misogynistic abuse

01:27:51

Topicals — Jury trial threshold and funding for domestic abuse services

01:30:35

Family courts, domestic abuse, legal aid and justice workforce

01:36:23

Family courts — Q: parental alienation and child safety

01:36:23

Domestic homicide sentencing reform and managing high‑risk sex offenders

01:37:38

Domestic abuse victims’ legal aid and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority delays

01:39:42

Justice workforce pensions, rape courts pledge, stalking supervision and digital reform

01:41:31

Urgent question — NI steel tariffs and post‑Brexit UK–EU trade

01:44:52

Urgent question on NI steel tariffs and UK–EU trade measures

01:44:52

Speaker’s criticism and Minister’s opening on NI steel tariffs

01:44:52

Speaker’s intervention on Defence report access and move to urgent question

01:44:52

Urgent Question — Government statement on steel tariffs and Northern Ireland

01:45:53

Allister Q — NI quotas, melt-and-pour rules

01:48:20

Implementation details — transitional arrangements and industrial supply chains

01:53:37

Transitional arrangements, impact assessment and EU export quotas

01:53:37

Defence and aerospace supply chains — outstanding product codes

01:59:46

UK–EU steel trade measures and customs union debate

02:01:33

Lib Dem customs union call and fair trade justification

02:01:33

Northern Ireland MPs — quota risks, double tariffs and meetings

02:04:55

National maternity failures and safety reforms

02:15:11

National maternity failures — statement and policy response

02:15:11

Ministerial statement and initial scrutiny on national maternity failures

02:15:11

Ministerial statement — national maternity investigation and policy measures

02:15:11

National maternity and neonatal investigation — context, scope and systemic failings

02:15:11

Maternity commissioner, Martha’s Rule and triage standards

02:20:21

National maternity action plan and political proposals

02:25:31

Shadow response and ministerial Q&A on action plan, commissioner powers and workforce

02:25:31

Maternity accountability — Hillsborough Law and rescue package proposals

02:36:46

Black maternal mortality and perinatal equity programme

02:44:08

Maternity safety reforms — accountability, inequality and implementation

02:47:05

Maternity safety reforms — accountability and oversight

02:47:05

System accountability, duty of candour and commissioner role

02:47:05

Duty of candour, Hillsborough Law and national maternity targets

02:47:05

Accountability for Nottingham clinicians and commissioner timing

03:02:25

Culture change, duty of candour and system‑wide reform

03:07:49

Maternity safety taskforce — accountability, inequalities and Q&A

02:53:56

Action plan timeline, staff voices, blood clots and misogyny

02:53:56

Apologies, disabled mothers’ inequalities and taskforce input

03:13:27

Parliamentary accountability and racial disparity targets

03:16:40

Maternity investigation Q&A — capital funding, culture and triage standards

03:20:11

Defence Investment Plan and disabled children’s savings bill

03:31:38

Defence Investment Plan — government statement and initial scrutiny

03:31:38

Defence Investment Plan — government statement and initial funding challenge

03:31:38

Defence Investment Plan — Government statement and funding dispute

03:31:38

Government statement — Defence Investment Plan and capability priorities

03:31:38

Defence Investment Plan — funding envelope and trade-offs

03:31:38

Capability priorities — drones, AI and integrated warfare

03:37:08

Nuclear deterrent, NATO pledges, industry and jobs

03:40:33

Opposition challenge on defence funding and priorities

03:45:41

Opposition response — underfunding, delays and capability timing

03:45:41

Defence funding levels, housing and bonds

03:51:12

Defence plan, naval capabilities and budget pathway

04:00:51

Defence plan, naval capabilities and scrutiny

04:00:51

Drones, naval fleet renewal and industrial strategy

04:00:51

Defence spending levels, 3.5% target and plan affordability

04:06:43

Defence plan scrutiny, reserves and hybrid navy

04:14:32

Defence budget level and 3% GDP pathway

04:21:31

Funding levels, 3–3.5% NATO target and industrial capacity

04:21:31

Cyber warfare, Ukraine lessons and capability reprioritisation

04:30:38

Does the DIP meet current threats and 3% target?

04:33:53

3% timeline, reindustrialisation and SMEs vs welfare spend

04:36:02

Defence Investment Plan — capabilities, readiness and financing model

04:38:24

Defence Investment Plan — capabilities, readiness and regional impacts

04:38:24

Capabilities, readiness, personnel and estate

04:38:24

Personnel skills, readiness criticism and defence finance options

04:38:24

Defence housing investment, estate condition and CDS support

04:41:50

Training bases, RAF Halton future and SME access reforms

04:54:31

Defence Investment Plan — regional jobs, Welsh funding and nuclear priorities

04:46:18

Regional jobs, Ajax programme and Welsh capital trade‑offs

04:46:18

Buy British procurement, nuclear reactors and air defence timing

04:48:32

Nuclear spending challenge and North East defence investment

04:51:44

Defence funding model — borrowing, GDP target and export finance

04:56:12

Financing the DIP — borrowing debate, 3% target and support for SMEs

04:56:12

Defence borrowing, 3% pathway and air–missile defence

04:56:12

Regional defence industry, SMEs and major capability programmes

05:01:56

Defence Secretary — export finance and Typhoon industrial base

05:06:52

Defence Investment Plan — export finance, Typhoon and threat timing

05:06:52

Ten Minute Rule Bill — parental access to disabled children’s savings

05:15:41

Ten Minute Rule Bill — child savings access

05:15:41

House business and child savings bill

05:15:41

House business and child savings legislation

05:15:41

Procedural business — Immigration and Asylum Bill and protest rights point of order

05:15:41

Ten Minute Rule Bill — Child savings accounts and mental capacity

05:19:28

Main Estimates — culture, sport and health budgets

05:29:04

DCMS Main Estimates — sport, youth and arts funding pressures

05:29:04

DCMS Estimates — sport, youth and arts funding

05:29:04

DCMS Estimates — sport, youth work and arts funding

05:29:04

Estimates Day opening — DCMS sport, youth and arts

05:29:04

Estimates Day (DCMS) — Culture Committee chair on sport and youth funding

05:29:04

Youth services, arts and sport — prevention and cross-government strategy

05:37:46

Backbench constituency cases — play space and youth role models

05:55:23

Backbencher case for removing ‘No Ball Games’ signs

05:55:23

Youth services as prevention and positive role models

05:58:19

DCMS Estimates — school sport, facilities and youth services

06:01:27

Liberal Democrat frontbench — PE cuts, facilities and youth work

06:01:27

Opposition response — DCMS cuts, school sport and strategy

06:07:22

Minister — grassroots sport funding and new PE & school sport network

06:13:12

DHSC Main Estimates — UK–US pharma and NHS pricing

06:22:58

DHSC Estimates — UK–US pharma framework and NICE

06:22:58

Opening of DHSC Estimates and UK–US pharma framework

06:22:58

Opening of DHSC Health Estimates and UK–US pharma deal

06:22:58

Procedural shift and opening of DHSC Estimates debate

06:22:58

Health Estimates — Moran on opaque NHS budgets and NICE thresholds

06:24:35

Moran — geopolitics, devolution and missing impact assessment

06:26:29

Committee chair and expert warnings on UK–US pharma deal

06:35:49

Health Committee chair — life sciences, VPAG and value for money

06:35:49

Mohamed — NHS safeguards, excess deaths and budget diversion

06:38:52

Health Estimates — UK–US pharma deal and NICE

06:41:48

Backbench perspectives on drug pricing and NICE’s role

06:41:48

Backbench pharmacist — defence of higher NHS drug prices

06:41:48

John McDonnell — politicisation of NICE and NHS on the table

06:46:42

Health Estimates — UK–US pharma deal, costs and regulation

06:51:05

Rachael Maskell — excess deaths modelling and demand for transparency

06:51:05

Health Estimates — regulatory complexity and single approval ‘front door’

06:54:07

Lib Dem spokesperson — oppose UK–US pharma deal and demand transparency

06:57:09

Shadow Health — costs, funding and displacement from pharma arrangement

07:00:53

Health Minister — defending UK–US pharma deal and refusing impact assessment

07:06:39

DWP Main Estimates — welfare system, pensions and Scottish perspectives

07:13:09

DWP Main Estimates — budget mandate and scrutiny

07:13:09

DWP Main Estimates — mandate, budget and scrutiny focus

07:13:09

DWP Main Estimates — budget, outcomes and accountability

07:13:09

Shift to DWP Estimates and scrutiny of outcomes

07:13:09

Procedural shift to DWP Estimates and Abrahams on outcomes and safeguarding

07:13:09

Maiden speeches — Scottish constituencies and energy policy

07:19:04

Maiden speeches — Scottish representation and energy policy

07:19:04

Maiden speeches — Scottish constituencies and energy

07:19:04

Maiden speeches — Scottish constituencies, energy and independence

07:19:04

Douglas Lumsden maiden speech — Aberdeen South and North Sea oil and gas

07:19:04

Maiden speech — Lora Bird on independence and Arbroath

07:25:09

DWP Main Estimates — welfare, pensions and child maintenance

07:31:42

DWP Main Estimates — welfare, pensions and child maintenance scrutiny

07:31:42

DWP Main Estimates — child maintenance, pensions and welfare policy

07:31:42

DWP Estimates — Child maintenance and welfare spending narratives

07:31:42

DWP Estimates — Child Maintenance Service and child poverty

07:31:42

Welfare bill narratives, scrounger myths and cost control

07:33:33

Backbench MPs — pensions, disability and DWP delivery

07:35:41

Pensions, triple lock and disability support for young people

07:35:41

Youth unemployment, welfare reform and labour market incentives

07:37:56

Backbencher — Access to Work delays, WASPI and DWP job cuts

07:42:14

DWP Estimates — welfare policy challenges and closure

07:45:59

Shadow minister — welfare caseload, NI hike and fraud enforcement

07:45:59

DWP Minister’s closing statement — welfare, skills and youth

07:51:43

DWP Estimates debate close and approval of Main Estimates 2026–27

08:00:25

Adjournment — domestic abuse and barriers to elected office

08:06:12

Adjournment debate — domestic abuse and access to office

08:06:12

Adjournment debate — domestic abuse and access to public life

08:06:12

Adjournment debate — domestic abuse and barriers to public life

08:06:12

Adjournment — domestic abuse and participation in public life

08:06:12

Adjournment debate — domestic abuse and participation in public life

08:06:12

House of Commons

30 June 2026

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:23 - 34:28

Speaker 3

Order. We start with questions to the Secretary of State for Justice. Ranjeev Jass.

34:28 - 34:30

Speaker 1

Question number one, please, Mr. Speaker.

34:30 - 34:34

Speaker 2

Secretary of State.

34:34 - 35:04

Speaker 5

Magistrates play a vital role in delivering local justice, Mr. Speaker, and we value their contribution as volunteers. We're increasing magistrates' numbers to 21,000 up to 2029. That's a 50% rise. We've quadrupled investment in magistrates' recruitment with a new national campaign that I hope members have seen, launched in the autumn, and we'll have more frequent regional campaigns going forward.

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