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16 July 2026

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The House moves from Oral Questions on AI regulation, minority-language broadcasting, sentencing practices and SATs accountability to receiving a Commons message on the Public Office Accountability Bill and Baroness Evans’s opening critique of the Government’s record on education, employment regulation and welfare incentives.

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Opening business — Oral Questions and welfare motion

37:26

Oral Questions to Government — AI, broadcasting, sentencing, SATs

37:26

Oral questions to Government — AI, broadcasting, sentencing, SATs

37:26

House business and AI governance strategy

37:26

House business, tribute and retirements

37:26

AI in the UK — government strategy and regulation model

38:05

AI standards, transparency and economic impact — peers’ concerns

40:33

AI skills, regulator capacity and defence applications

43:16

Gaelic, Welsh and Scots broadcasting — funding and charter review

49:22

Gaelic broadcasting — parity of esteem and funding levels

49:22

Gaelic and Welsh broadcasting — multi‑year funding and statutory duties

52:02

Charter review — youth reach, Scots language and MG Alba status

55:45

IPP sentences — ministerial stance and peers’ concerns

59:42

Q — Baroness Ludford: ending IPP injustice by 2029

59:42

Peers: determinate sentences, numbers and prison placement

01:01:58

Family impact, recalls and system performance metrics

01:04:16

IPP prisoners — minister’s recent meeting and progression challenges

01:07:22

Key Stage 2 SATs delays, Pearson accountability and assessment reform

01:10:13

Key Stage 2 delays — minister’s statement and Pearson sanctions

01:10:13

Workload, disruption and outsourcing options in national assessments

01:12:38

Former review chair’s concerns, technical failures and pupil stress

01:15:38

Support for teachers, SATs reform debate and safeguarding guidance

01:18:45

Commons message and motion — opening education and welfare critique

01:21:22

Lords procedure and opening critique on education, employment and welfare

01:21:22

Commons message and Lords debate motion

01:21:22

Public Office Accountability Bill — first reading from the Commons

01:21:22

Education, employment and welfare debate — motion and framing

01:22:54

Baroness Evans — education, employment and welfare critique

01:24:18

Education policy — academies, curriculum and independent schools

01:24:18

Employment — tax on jobs, regulation and youth labour market

01:27:11

Welfare — incapacity benefits, dependency and incentives to work

01:30:16

Welfare system and NEETs — structural concerns

01:33:28

Welfare system, NEETs and social mobility concerns

01:33:28

Government’s welfare record — committee evidence and benefit incentives

01:33:28

Lord Magid — NEETs, primary schools and funding formula

01:37:41

Right Reverend Prelate — humanities cuts and regional inequality

01:41:54

Peer focus on NEETs — economic cost and business climate

01:45:27

Youth unemployment, technical education and reindustrialisation

01:49:34

Lord Baker — youth unemployment and technical ‘sleeve’ reform

01:49:34

Pro‑government peer — reindustrialisation, net zero and capital reform

01:54:49

NEETs, education reform and youth support

01:59:07

Conservative peer — tough choices, teacher retention and regional skills

01:59:07

Former Employment Minister — Future Jobs Fund and NEET‑focused curriculum reform

02:03:39

Lord Willetts — data-led targeting of NEET support

02:07:29

Baroness Coffey — NEET statistics, work incentives and Universal Credit

02:11:29

Labour market, welfare policy and prison leavers

02:15:48

Main Lords debate — jobs, tax, welfare and disability benefits

02:15:48

Conservative peers — productivity, tax and welfare

02:15:48

Peers’ critiques — productivity, labour market and hiring costs

02:15:48

Peer critique — productivity stagnation, tax burden and net zero impacts

02:15:48

Lord Sharpe — Employment Rights Act and youth unemployment

02:20:09

Peer critique — lifelong learning versus lack of jobs

02:23:37

Welfare policy, tax measures and growth under Labour

02:27:41

Social security record — UC, two‑child limit and PIP review

02:27:41

Tax rises, NI and Employment Rights Act — impact on hiring

02:31:32

Growth, tech and welfare sustainability under Burnham

02:36:09

Peers’ critiques of jobs, welfare and disability benefits

02:40:04

Government vs Conservative peers — jobs, welfare and NI

02:40:04

Government peer — defending Burnham record on education, work and welfare

02:40:04

Conservative peer — NI, hospitality jobs and hospice funding

02:44:22

Education, health inequality and disability benefits

02:48:45

Health academic — education, health inequality and local medical workforce

02:48:45

Conservative peer — PIP growth, youth resilience and Timms review

02:52:54

House of Lords debate — education, skills and welfare record

02:56:54

Peers’ debate — NEETs, SEND and welfare policy

02:56:54

Government peer — NEETs, Milburn review and welfare language

02:56:54

Lord Addington — SEND, teacher recruitment and further education

03:00:22

Conservative peer — critique of youth employment, welfare and tax policy

03:09:45

Education, skills and welfare — minister and closing motion

03:19:41

Education, skills and welfare — minister’s defence of government record

03:19:41

Debate conclusion — interconnected policy and motion agreed

03:37:58

Prison leavers — homelessness risks and government response

03:39:45

Peers — risks of homelessness after prison release

03:39:45

Lord Farmer — penal populism, sentence length and early release risks

03:39:45

Lord Farmer — penal populism, sentence inflation and homelessness risk

03:39:45

Lord Farmer — early release numbers, duty to collaborate and local authority performance

03:44:18

Peers — repeal of Vagrancy Act and release to rough sleeping

03:48:07

Peer with housing background — repeal of Vagrancy Act, prevention focus and no‑cost reforms

03:48:07

Peer on local authorities, rough sleeping conditions and remand prisoners

03:52:38

Peers’ interventions — homelessness and prison release

03:57:52

Right Reverend Prelate — homelessness, Universal Credit and The Clink

03:57:52

Labour peer — women prison leavers, housing crisis and best practice

04:02:56

Crossbench peer — voluntary sector role and Greater Change proposal

04:08:20

Right Reverend Prelate — outcome metrics and regional disparities

04:14:02

Peers’ interventions — legal duties and local practice

04:18:20

Liberal Democrat peer — Homelessness Reduction Act and duty to collaborate

04:18:20

Conservative front bencher — early planning, local accountability and employment links

04:24:03

Minister — housing support for prison leavers

04:29:41

Minister — housing and rehabilitation for prison leavers

04:29:41

Minister — housing for prison leavers and duty to collaborate

04:29:41

House of Lords — defence strategy and security powers

04:39:38

Defence strategy context and investment choices

04:39:38

Defence Investment Plan — funding and procurement model

04:39:38

Opening critique of Defence Investment Plan

04:39:38

Motion introduced — scrutiny of Defence Investment Plan

04:39:38

Reserves expansion and defence industrial base

04:50:42

Future force mix, industrial agility and training shortfalls

04:55:05

Procurement model, private capital and welfare trade‑offs

04:59:09

Procurement reform, private capital and fiscal constraints

04:59:09

Defence funding versus welfare spending

05:16:22

Strategic framing of UK defence and political trade‑offs

05:03:11

Bishop’s valedictory and minister’s strategic framing

05:03:11

Valedictory bishop — ethics, manpower and soft power

05:03:11

Minister Ahmad — tribute and strategic framing

05:07:41

Minister Ahmad — force numbers, procurement and Defence Readiness Bill

05:11:40

Defence spending priorities, welfare trade‑offs and Labour commitments

05:16:22

Conservative peer — welfare spending versus defence and role of JEF

05:16:22

Conservative peer — Burnham’s priorities and welfare versus defence

05:32:46

Peers — deterrence posture, resilience and warfighting gap

05:20:32

Deterrence posture, NATO role and national resilience

05:20:32

Deterrence posture, SDR implementation and NATO nuclear role

05:20:32

Peer focus on UK nuclear deterrent and NATO dual‑capable role

05:20:32

Peer on SDR implementation, industrial base and deterrence tempo

05:24:21

Noble Lord — NATO deterrence, Russia perceptions and defence spending

05:28:20

Strategic defence posture, space domain and national resilience

05:35:40

Lord Empey — GDP targets, public mindset and post‑Cold War choices

05:35:40

Peer on future warfare — UK space capability and Skynet 6 cancellation

05:39:49

Peer proposal — whole‑of‑nation resilience and UK National Reserve

05:43:54

Peers — degraded warfighting readiness and investment gap

05:48:08

War-fighting readiness, Defence Investment Plan and party commitments

05:48:08

Peer on degraded war‑fighting readiness and Defence Investment Plan gap

05:48:08

Critique of SDR, DIP and Burnham government defence priorities

05:53:07

Defence spending priorities, industry partnership and national resilience

05:58:21

Baroness Bennett — defence spending purpose, soft power and welfare

05:58:21

Peer call for UK–Ukraine defence industrial partnership

06:02:28

National resilience, public engagement and war-readiness by 2029

06:06:51

Peers — fiscal sustainability and defence funding debate

06:11:01

OBR warnings, fiscal sustainability and future defence funding

06:11:01

Lord Bruce — deterrence, soft power cuts and reserves

06:15:18

Lord Bruce — Russia hybrid tactics, migration weaponisation and defence bonds

06:21:23

Opposition front bencher — critique of Defence Investment Plan and naval cuts

06:25:49

Defence and national security — ministerial statements

06:35:19

Defence capability debate — ministerial assurances

06:35:19

Defence Minister — capabilities, funding assurances and reserves

06:35:19

Defence Minister — response, current capabilities and new paper

06:35:19

Harlech questions — £4.7bn gap, reserves and near‑term priorities

06:40:11

House of Lords: defence capability debate conclusion

06:42:21

Soft power concerns, hybrid navy and EU–Ukraine funding

06:42:21

Industry, RDEL/CDEL balance and humanitarian law

06:46:11

Defence debate — minister’s closing statement and motion agreed

06:49:13

National Security Act regulations — designation of hostile bodies

06:58:44

National Security Act regulations — designation of IRGC and Russian proxies

06:58:44

National Security Act 2023 — designation of IRGC, IMCR and GRU Volunteer Corps

06:58:44

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House of Lords

16 July 2026

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 Actual start 10:30 House of Lords

37:26 - 38:04

Speaker 2

I understand there will be an opportunity for the House to pay tribute to Lord Laming in the coming days, but on behalf of the House, I extend our condolences to the noble Lord's family and friends. My Lords, I should like to notify the House of the retirement with effect from today of the noble Lord, Lord Oakshott of Seagrove Bay, pursuant to section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. On behalf of the House, I should like to thank the noble Lord for his much-valued service to the House. First oral question, Lord Taylor of Warwick.

38:05 - 38:11

Speaker 1

I beg leave to ask the question standing in my name on the order paper.

38:11 - 38:47

Speaker 4

My Lords, AI has the potential for significant advances in science, productivity and living standards if adopted securely. Whilst we're taking steps to develop our sovereign capability, we're also bringing forward the Regulation for Growth Bill to ensure that our regulatory environment drives the growth we need to seize the opportunities brought by AI. Through our world-leading AI Security Institute, we are supporting international safeguard developments and ensuring that the government has the best understanding of model capabilities as they advance.

38:47 - 38:57

Speaker 3

My Lords, I thank the noble Minister for that answer. But first of all, can I say well done to the England football team for reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup.

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