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25 June 2026

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Oral questions to the Cabinet Office are followed by challenges to the Speaker and the weekly Business Statement, enabling MPs to scrutinise cross‑government functions, asylum policy handling and the forward parliamentary agenda, as well as to raise a broad range of local and sectoral issues with the Leader of the House.

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Executive scrutiny and House business management

34:07

Executive scrutiny — Cabinet Office and Sudan

34:07

Cabinet Office questions — pensions, EU relations, resilience and procurement

34:07

Main departmental questions — pensions, EU relations, resilience, procurement

34:07

Q1 — Capita’s Civil Service pensions performance

34:07

Opening and Q1 — Capita’s pension administration failures

34:07

Q1 follow‑ups — MPs press on delayed pensions and sanctions on Capita

35:51

UK‑EU relations, due diligence standards and youth mobility

37:25

Q3/11/15 — UK‑EU relations, due diligence standards and youth scheme

37:25

Q3/11/15 — Political positioning and Erasmus Plus versus Turing

39:59

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — call for closer UK‑EU growth and defence partnership

43:24

National resilience, climate risks and coordination

44:38

Q4 — Community resilience to natural disasters and telecoms failures

44:38

Q5 — National resilience, climate and infrastructure risks

47:17

Q9 — Cross‑government resilience coordination, Space Council and heat risks

01:02:21

Core departmental questions — pensions, SMEs, civil service relocation

52:05

Q6 — Civil Service Pension Scheme and potential insourcing

52:05

Q7 and Q14 — SME access to public procurement

53:44

Q8 and Q10 — Relocation of civil service roles

58:07

Accountability and strategic procurement policy

01:04:52

Q12 — Implementing the humble Address on Mandelson documents

01:04:52

Q13 — New procurement guidance to prioritise UK industry

01:08:54

Cabinet Office topical questions — domestic policy and EU/UK issues

01:10:57

Topical questions — pensions, ethics and PM accountability

01:10:57

Topicals opening and pensions — PM record and Capita failures

01:10:57

Topical Q — ethics rules and Reform crypto lobbying case

01:13:05

Topical Q — new Prime Minister’s accountability to the House

01:14:36

Civil service workforce issues and digital ID citizen input

01:16:37

Topicals — civil service equality, voting reform, Barnett and appointments

01:16:37

Digital ID People’s Panel — citizen-led recommendations

01:19:46

Cabinet Office topical questions — EU ties, security, SMEs and digital ID

01:21:03

EU summit issues, Ashford trains, SNP embezzlement and hostile threats

01:21:03

Mandelson documents review, SME procurement sectors and food security

01:23:29

EU ties, digital ID accessibility, AI sovereignty and SME resilience

01:26:42

Digital ID — coordination with devolved governments

01:31:18

Final Cabinet Office topicals — ex‑PM security, insourcing and critical sectors

01:33:18

Sudan crisis — ministerial statement and urgent questioning

01:37:15

Government and Opposition positions on Sudan crisis

01:37:15

Sudan urgent question — Government and Opposition positions

01:37:15

Urgent Question on Sudan — Minister’s opening statement

01:37:15

Shadow Foreign Secretary — UK action, intelligence and accountability on Sudan

01:40:07

Sudan conflict — UAE role, sanctions and protection of civilians

01:44:58

Conservative backbencher — tougher UN line and sanctions, including on UAE

01:44:58

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — UAE influence, football ownership and UK policy capture

01:46:52

Sudan UQ — protection of women and girls

01:49:13

UAE role, atrocity prevention and sanctions discretion

01:52:21

Sudan urgent question — UK accountability and regional policy

01:55:44

Sudan urgent question — accountability, regional impact and UK policy

01:55:44

Accountability for atrocities and UK genocide obligations

01:55:44

Regional spillover, religious persecution and no‑impunity pledge

01:58:22

Sudan UQ — FCDO stance, UAE role and civilian protection

02:02:03

House business management — statements and weekly agenda

02:13:33

Speaker and Leader — asylum statement and weekly business

02:13:33

Speaker, Leader and Shadow — asylum scrutiny and weekly agenda

02:13:33

Speaker and Leader — asylum centres scrutiny and weekly business

02:13:33

Point of order — asylum seeker centres and parliamentary scrutiny

02:13:33

Business Statement — Estimates Days and legislative schedule

02:16:23

Shadow Leader and Leader — condolences, party finance and defence plan

02:18:32

Shadow Leader — condolences, party finance scandals and Lucy Letby case

02:18:32

Leader’s response — tributes, toxic discourse, Reform donation and defence plan

02:24:57

Business Questions — defence, national services and House matters

02:30:16

Constituency questions — defence, maternity care and trans rights

02:30:16

Q — defence investment plan and SME defence suppliers

02:30:16

Q — miscarriage support, maternity safety and Baroness Amos review

02:31:42

Q — trans people’s access to toilets and Equality Act protections

02:34:49

Business Questions — national services, tax and House staffing

02:36:08

Backbench Business schedule and heatwave risks in social housing

02:36:08

Constituency cases — local business milestones, disabled VAT relief, pub fundraising and Project Gigabit cuts

02:40:18

Veterans’ pensions, safeguarding, SEND funding and ISA tax change

02:44:25

Parliamentary staff employment and bill timetabling

02:48:56

Business Questions — local services and constituency issues

02:51:39

Local services, planning and community support

02:51:39

Local services, planning, health and crime concerns

02:51:39

Football foundations, mixed-age classes and outsourced cleaners

02:51:39

Protecting playing fields and cracking down on private parking fines

02:54:25

Cancer early diagnosis and coastal anti‑social behaviour

02:57:07

Local community services, festivals and youth provision

03:00:24

Pubs, community volunteers and local fundraising

03:00:24

Local festival water access and small-town industrial strategy

03:02:28

School closures in heatwave and expansion of youth hubs

03:05:38

Backbench issues — planning, consumer rights, policing finance

03:08:37

Planning, land use, consumer rights and policing finance

03:08:37

Rural land banking, Gypsy sites and Chinese bus competition

03:08:37

Hospice funding pressures, youth volunteering and PFAS contamination

03:10:48

Skills partnerships, fleecehold estates and Met crypto seizure

03:14:03

Business Questions — constituency concerns and ministerial accountability

03:17:18

Business Questions — constituency cases and government accountability

03:17:18

Religious freedom in the Gulf and veterans’ community champions

03:17:18

Closing Business Questions — asylum centre, reservists and outreach

03:19:41

Local safety and transport priorities — lollipop patrols and buses

03:23:11

Government statements and scrutiny on trade and social policy

03:26:22

Ministerial statement — UK steel safeguard regime

03:26:22

Ministerial statement — UK steel safeguard regime

03:26:22

UK steel safeguard regime — ministerial statement and debate

03:26:22

Government statement — new UK steel safeguard and quotas

03:26:22

Steel trade measures — rationale, scope and protection of UK producers

03:26:22

Steel quotas, EU alignment and transitional arrangements

03:30:29

Core steel safeguard design — opposition challenges and government defence

03:34:34

Shadow Minister and Lib Dem — tariffs, defence risks and downstream impacts

03:34:34

Steel quotas and energy costs — Black Country, Scunthorpe and South Wales

03:46:36

Steel safeguard regime — strategic aims and monitoring

03:51:36

Strategic capabilities, Welsh steel share and monitoring the regime

03:51:36

Downstream users, scope of tariffs and fabricated steel risks

03:56:06

Steel tariffs — downstream SMEs and Northern Ireland impact

04:02:14

Conversion Practices Bill — scope, safeguards and evidence

04:10:50

Conversion Practices Bill — government case and scrutiny

04:10:50

Conversion Practices Bill — government rationale and opposition concerns

04:10:50

Conversion Practices Bill — Minister and Shadow positions

04:10:50

Conversion Practices Bill — Minister’s opening statement

04:10:50

Shadow Minister — safeguards, evidence and unintended consequences

04:17:08

Minister’s rebuttal — legal gaps, thresholds and pre‑leg scrutiny

04:23:02

Scope of LGBT protections and international context

04:27:53

LGBTQ+ protections — deterrent effect and international context

04:27:53

Conversion Practices Bill — scope, safeguards and closing positions

04:33:34

Bill symmetry, parental abuse tests and devolution

04:33:34

Technical concerns — symmetry, detransition and family context

04:33:34

Backbench support, LGBT rights and devolved engagement

04:37:53

Conversion Practices Bill — healthcare carve‑out and closing statements

04:44:58

Healthcare carve‑out, asexual inclusion and centring survivors’ voices

04:44:58

Conversion Practices Bill — closing Labour affirmations

04:50:34

Work and Pensions Committee — disability employment support report

04:55:21

Work and Pensions Committee — disability employment report

04:55:21

Work and Pensions Committee — Connect to Work disability employment report

04:55:21

Work and Pensions Committee — Connect to Work disability employment support

04:55:21

Work and Pensions Committee — Connect to Work disability employment support

04:55:21

Commons debate — Windrush Day legacy and redress

05:05:36

Windrush Day debate — historical context and policy responses

05:05:36

Windrush Day debate — historical context and policy responses

05:05:36

Windrush Day debate — history, injustice and party positions

05:05:36

Opening of Windrush Day debate — history and systemic injustice

05:05:36

Windrush Day debate — history, contribution and ongoing injustice

05:05:36

Backbencher — personal Windrush case and shame of scandal

05:17:45

Windrush compensation scheme — delays, errors and call for inquiry

05:22:20

Cross‑party tributes and Liberal Democrat policy on Windrush justice

05:26:09

Conservative backbencher — gratitude to Windrush generation

05:26:09

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — local stories and cultural impact

05:27:35

Liberal Democrat policy stance — overhaul compensation and tackle racial inequality

05:30:24

Windrush Day debate — Government and Opposition closing positions

05:35:17

Opposition spokesperson — Windrush legacy, racism and unity

05:35:17

Minister Mims Davies — tribute, Windrush Day grants and education

05:44:13

Windrush Minister — compensation scheme, commissioner and 80th anniversary

05:49:09

Windrush debate wind‑up — calls for independent compensation scheme

05:55:31

Commons debate — PANS/PANDAS recognition and NHS guidelines

05:59:50

Commons debate — PANS/PANDAS clinical recognition and NHS policy

05:59:50

Commons debate — PANS/PANDAS clinical recognition and policy

05:59:50

Backbench debate — PANS/PANDAS evidence and policy demands

05:59:50

Opening of PANS/PANDAS backbench debate — clinical context and policy framing

05:59:50

PANS/PANDAS debate — clinical overview and diagnosis delays

05:59:50

PANS/PANDAS — education impact, devolved approaches and policy asks

06:08:30

Backbench and Lib Dem MPs — PANS/PANDAS access, funding and guidance

06:15:22

Constituency case — ICB funding barriers to PANS/PANDAS treatment

06:15:22

Backbencher — child advocate Albie and call for NHS guidance

06:18:58

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — research, devolved cooperation and ending postcode lottery

06:26:39

Westminster Hall debate — PANS/PANDAS policy and government response

06:32:21

PANS/PANDAS Westminster Hall debate — concerns and government response

06:32:21

Shadow Minister — system failures, guidance and professional awareness

06:32:21

PANS/PANDAS debate — Minister’s response and conclusions

06:41:45

HMOs in South Shields — local impacts and national policy tools

06:56:03

HMOs in South Shields — local issues and ministerial response

06:56:03

HMOs — local impacts and ministerial response

06:56:03

HMO planning problems and ministerial response

06:56:03

Local HMO impacts and regulatory gaps

06:56:03

Adjournment opening — South Shields HMO impacts

06:56:03

Cross‑party interventions — need for stronger HMO planning powers

07:00:19

Democratic oversight, licensing failings and call for review

07:05:10

Minister — current planning tools and next steps

07:09:29

Minister’s reply — planning framework, Article 4 and South Tyneside local plan

07:09:29

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House of Commons

25 June 2026

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 Actual start 09:00 House of Commons

34:07 - 34:08

Order.

34:08 - 34:12

Speaker 1

We'll start with questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. Gregory Stafford.

34:12 - 34:18

Speaker 2

Good morning, sir. Question number one.

34:18 - 34:38

Speaker 3

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I personally met with Capita senior leadership last Wednesday and told them directly that their operational failures, missed targets, and escalating backlog are completely unacceptable. The Cabinet Office continue to monitor performance data daily and to hold Capita robustly to account.

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