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1 July 2026

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Sequential oral questions cover road safety and community pharmacies, policing technologies and fertility regulation, followed by House business and an Urgent Question on early release of serious offenders, focusing on policy design, safeguards and operational impacts across justice and home affairs.

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Oral Questions and Early Release Scheme UQ

37:23

Oral questions — road safety and community pharmacies

37:23

Oral question 1 — drink- and drug-driving measures

37:23

Opening question — innovation to curb drink-driving

37:23

Minister — position on alcolocks and vehicle tech

38:49

Drug-driving offences — risks, detection and public awareness

39:58

Lower drink-drive limit and court powers on alcolocks

41:18

Victim impact, enforcement consistency and Scottish evidence

43:13

Alcolocks now vs. waiting for consultation outcomes

45:49

Community pharmacy closures — funding, access and workforce

47:58

Second oral question — impact of pharmacy closures

47:58

Minister — funding uplift and rural pharmacy access

49:38

Data on at-risk pharmacies and GP practice dispensing

53:50

Deprived areas, health inequalities and pharmacy workforce

55:57

Oral questions — policing technologies and fertility regulation

58:33

Home Office — AI, facial recognition and counterterrorism

58:33

Third oral question — AI and facial recognition for counterterrorism

58:33

Q — Lord Kirkhope: SIS II access and EU security cooperation

01:00:34

Q — AI chatbots, radicalisation and terrorism legislation

01:01:51

Live facial recognition authorisation and terrorism vs other crime

01:03:17

Police AI Centre pilots and force mergers

01:04:37

Facial recognition errors and human oversight

01:06:19

Health — IVF regulation, access and fertility add-ons

01:07:52

Lancet IVF add-ons — regulatory powers and enforcement

01:07:52

IVF access, postcode variation and patient information

01:10:30

Egg freezing risks, ICB rationing and NHSE functions

01:13:07

Evidence on IVF add-ons and professional regulation

01:15:58

House business and Urgent Question — early release scheme

01:18:55

Procedural close and Urgent Question — early release policy

01:18:55

Conclusion of oral questions and en bloc motions

01:18:55

Urgent Question repeat – early release of rapists

01:20:34

Q — peer: victim notification and digital release data

01:22:54

Probation capacity, deportation constraints and women prisoners

01:25:11

Electronic monitoring technology and prison place savings

01:29:12

Draft Conversion Practices Bill — scope and safeguards

01:31:26

Draft Conversion Practices Bill — critiques and minister’s legal rationale

01:31:26

Peers’ critiques and party responses on draft Conversion Practices Bill

01:31:26

Statement repeat – draft Conversion Practices Bill

01:31:26

Conversion Practices Bill — critique of impact assessment

01:35:48

Liberal Democrat response — support with safeguards on parents and professionals

01:38:28

Minister — rationale, legal gaps and new offence

01:42:53

Minister — need for new offence, gaps in law and scope of ban

01:42:53

Backbench Q&A — necessity of new offence vs existing law

01:47:48

Backbench Conservative — support with safeguards on parents

01:49:58

Q — peer: clause 1 breadth and parental refusals

01:52:33

Conversion Practices Bill — commitments, faith concerns and safeguards

01:53:58

Party commitments, victim experiences and faith concerns

01:53:58

Conservative backbencher — lived experience and party commitment

01:53:58

Bishop — pastoral care and prayer; minister on religious freedom

01:57:14

Crossbench faith leader — terminology and scope of criminalisation

02:05:37

Conversion Practices Bill — international role and safeguards

01:59:58

Conservative peer — global LGBT envoy and international leadership

01:59:58

Q — Baroness Fox: parental speech and scrutiny

02:02:59

Government backbencher — protecting vulnerable vs criminalising conversations

02:07:54

Farming Roadmap and agricultural support scrutiny

02:10:36

Farming Roadmap and agricultural support scrutiny

02:10:36

Farming Roadmap — initial political critiques and minister’s positioning

02:10:36

Farming Roadmap statement — Conservative critique of Natural England and regulation

02:10:36

Farming Roadmap — Labour front-bench questions on funding, tenants and trade

02:15:33

Minister — defence of Farming Roadmap focus and scope

02:20:00

Funding stability, devolution and tenant farming safeguards

02:30:53

Q — Baroness McIntosh: BPS–ELMS funding gap

02:30:53

Q — Baroness Ritchie: implications for Northern Ireland

02:31:53

Tenant farming — security, tax and compensation

02:33:37

Agriculture Q&A — SPS alignment, farming roadmap and support schemes

02:35:42

Q — Lord Redwood: livestock, rewilding and imports

02:35:42

Q — peer: local procurement of British produce

02:36:46

Q — Baroness Bennett: poultry growth vs environmental harms

02:37:59

EU ‘reset’, live exports and solar on farmland

02:41:28

EU alignment, subsidies and roadmap implementation

02:42:47

Agroecology, SPS carve-outs and Northern Ireland agri‑trade

02:45:55

SFI funding limits and Law Commission tenancy review

02:49:11

Defence Investment Plan — opposition scrutiny and government defence

02:50:53

Defence Investment Plan — opposition challenges

02:50:53

Opening and opposition critiques of Defence Investment Plan

02:50:53

Introduction to Commons defence investment statement

02:50:53

Conservative response — funding gap and efficiency claims

02:51:11

Liberal Democrat response — underfunding, defence bonds and alliances

02:57:28

Minister’s defence of funding uplift and resilience priorities

03:03:23

Minister — defence funding uplift and efficiencies

03:03:23

Q&A — national conversation and budget trade‑offs

03:11:21

War‑footing concerns and GCAP–Japan partnership

03:13:07

Underwater infrastructure protection and Ireland’s role

03:15:58

Explaining 3–3.5% GDP defence target to the public

03:17:39

Defence Investment Plan — funding, capability gaps and alliances

03:19:08

Defence Investment Plan — alliance, funding and capability debates

03:19:08

US pivot, European capability gaps and alliance

03:19:08

GCAP, Typhoon replacement and potential new partners

03:21:26

Q — peer: Healey resignation and defence funding gap

03:23:25

Defence spending targets, welfare bill and budget reprioritisation

03:25:06

Industrial agility, drones and US‑led posture concerns

03:27:49

Public consent, past neglect and nuclear deterrent delay

03:31:11

Committee stage context and privatisation duties

03:34:44

Committee stage resumes — groundwork to clause 44

03:34:44

Committee resumes — Steel Bill clauses 15–43

03:34:44

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill — committee resumes and clauses agreed en bloc

03:34:44

Clause 44 — pension safeguards and ministerial reply

03:36:28

Clause 44 — pension protections and consultation demands

03:36:28

Minister — rejection of pension and liability amendments

03:39:24

Committee — withdrawal of pension amendments and clauses agreed

03:43:45

Steel privatisation duty and stakeholder role

03:45:57

Amendments 21 and 23 — privatisation duty and industrial transition

03:45:57

Amendment 21 — duty to seek private buyer for British Steel

03:45:57

Backbench concerns — steel strategy, output collapse and tariffs

03:49:58

Minister — opposition to statutory duty to privatise

03:54:18

Amendment 22 — stakeholder advisory committee for steel

04:02:50

Amendment 22 — stakeholder advisory committee for steel users

04:02:50

Minister rejects statutory consultation duty but adds UK Metals Council to Steel Council

04:11:34

Nationalised steel — liabilities, financial support and decarbonisation regime

04:16:52

State support liabilities and pensions protections

04:16:52

Compensation liabilities, pensions and ministerial response

04:16:52

Amendments 24–28, 39, 45 — environmental, pension liabilities and compensation cap

04:16:52

Minister — rejection of liability estimates and compensation cap

04:24:21

Allied Steel pensions challenge and withdrawal of liability amendments

04:32:21

Clause 58 financial assistance — limits, scrutiny and reporting

04:35:04

Amendments 32–35, 40–41 — caps, value for money and reporting on financial assistance

04:35:04

Financial assistance vs compensation — scrutiny and reporting

04:39:13

Opposition response — reporting frequency and safeguards

04:50:11

Financial assistance — calls for affirmative approval and quarterly reporting

04:52:14

Decarbonisation regimes and reporting for nationalised steel

05:06:48

CBAM and UK ETS — exemptions for nationalised steel

05:06:48

Amendments 47–48 — CBAM and UK ETS exemptions for nationalised steel

05:06:48

Minister — rejection of CBAM and ETS carve‑outs for public steel

05:11:41

ESG and corporate reporting — proposed deregulation for public steel

05:16:56

Amendments 49–55 — disapplying ESG and reporting duties for nationalised steel

05:16:56

Minister — public steel must meet full environmental and corporate reporting standards

05:23:06

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House of Lords

1 July 2026

Wed, 1 Jul 2026 Actual start 14:30 House of Lords

37:23 - 37:26

Speaker 1

First oral question, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town.

37:26 - 37:32

Speaker 3

To ask the question standing in my name on the order paper.

37:32 - 38:00

Speaker 2

My Lords, the government recognizes the role innovation and technology can play in reducing drink-driving and repeat offending, alongside effective enforcement, education, and penalties. Through the road safety strategy, we consulted on measures to tackle drink and drug driving, including the potential use of alcohol interlocks for offenders. Responses are now being analyzed.

Our approach will remain evidence-led, proportionate, and focused on reducing deaths and serious injuries on Britain's roads.

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