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15 July 2026

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Scotland Office questions and the final Prime Minister’s Questions focus on devolution, sectoral policy in Scotland, and wide‑ranging scrutiny of the outgoing Prime Minister’s domestic and foreign policy record, culminating in his valedictory statement and cross‑party reflections.

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Ministerial questions and PMQs — scrutiny of Government record

34:15

Scotland Office questions — devolution and sector policy

34:15

Scotland Office questions — devolution, funding and sector policy

34:15

Scotland Office questions — funding, devolution and sector policies

34:15

Scotland Office — local funding, defence deal and youth policy

34:15

Scotland Q1 — Pride in Place funding and local leadership

34:15

Scotland Q2 — Defence Growth Deal and Fife D-TEC

35:53

Scotland Q3 — Youth Jobs Grant, antisocial behaviour and youth constitutional voice

37:29

Scotland questions — constitutional impasse, referendums and electoral system

40:32

Scottish constitutional logjam — SNP independence focus vs public service delivery

40:32

Unity and rivalry — football, no second referendum, Union mandate

44:39

Electoral reform and devolved energy powers

46:52

Scotland questions — SNP public service record and devolution limits

49:58

NHS staff taxation and SNP public service record

49:58

Extent and limits of further devolution to Holyrood

50:59

Scotland questions — nuclear policy, regional re‑industrialisation and agriculture

52:47

New nuclear in Scotland — GBE Nuclear findings

52:47

City region and growth deals and local re‑industrialisation

55:02

Scottish livestock decline, food security and devolution accountability

57:14

Prime Minister — PMQs and valedictory statement

59:40

PMQs opening — final session context and tributes

59:40

Opening of final PMQs and initial backbench issues

59:40

Opening of final PMQs and early backbench questions

59:40

Transition to Prime Minister’s Questions and tributes

59:40

Backbench opening question — leadership and football

01:02:52

Watford MP — hate crime incidents and community protection

01:04:44

PMQs — Opposition Leader vs Prime Minister on record and transition

01:06:22

Opposition Leader and Prime Minister — tributes, accountability, legacy

01:06:22

Opposition Leader Badenoch — tributes, Ukraine and industrial jobs

01:06:22

Badenoch & Starmer — Anne Widdecombe tribute and Ukraine unity

01:06:22

Election politics, Farage jibe and JLR–US tariffs deal

01:10:41

Opposition Leader: accountability, leadership transition, legacy

01:13:31

Parliamentary accountability and cancer care example

01:13:31

Transition of leadership and Ronan’s Law on knife crime

01:15:04

Opposition Leader — governing levers and policy legacy

01:17:07

Final Badenoch–Starmer exchange and Labour’s turnaround

01:19:17

PMQs — domestic policy, public services, elections and migration

01:22:14

PMQs — domestic policy pledges and public services

01:22:14

Backbench MPs: violence against women, carers, housing

01:22:14

Violence against women and girls — manifesto pledge

01:22:14

Tributes, football, economy jokes and family carers

01:23:53

Short‑term holiday lets regulation and housing affordability

01:28:15

PMQs — education investment, local care and Ukraine

01:29:38

Football record, World Cup and skills funding

01:29:38

Community hospitals, social care and online safety impact

01:32:00

Coastguard volunteers’ pay and Ukraine coalition

01:34:02

PMQs — elections, migration and accountability

01:36:33

PMQs — by‑elections, migration, media and integrity

01:36:33

Clacton by‑election, Reform UK and honour killings

01:36:33

Water infrastructure capacity and small boats strategy

01:38:39

Leadership record, Hillsborough Law and media accountability

01:40:27

Rural council finances and mental health fundraising

01:42:09

Football bank holiday, lobbying rules and data centres

01:43:41

Prime Minister’s valedictory statement to the House

01:45:40

Prime Minister’s farewell statement to the House

01:45:40

Prime Minister’s farewell to the House

01:45:40

Prime Minister’s valedictory statement and House farewell

01:45:40

Urgent question — NESO whistleblowing, Ofgem inquiry and House business

01:51:12

NESO incident urgent question and subsequent House business

01:51:12

Urgent question on NESO incident and inquiry

01:51:12

Minister’s statement and initial NESO allegations

01:51:12

NESO control room allegations and initial political clash

01:51:12

Urgent Question opened — NESO control room allegations

01:51:12

Shadow Secretary — whistleblower claims and ‘sham’ inquiry

01:54:16

Select Committee Chair — evidence vs scaremongering

02:00:43

Whistleblower allegations, grid resilience and blackout risk

02:02:32

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — independence, whistleblower protection and grid resilience

02:02:32

Shadow Minister — whistleblower claims and blackout reassurance

02:05:15

NESO incident — resilience, governance and grid investment

02:07:53

System resilience exercises, NESO governance and investment record

02:07:53

Exercise Mighty Oak and standard margin notices

02:07:53

Grid investment record, NESO governance and inquiry scope

02:13:02

NESO report, public resilience and nuclear baseload

02:16:32

Public resilience education, report publication and local outages

02:16:32

Nuclear baseload and NESO resilience concerns

02:19:31

Grid resilience upgrades and NESO whistleblower concerns

02:23:09

Grid resilience investment and whistleblower independence

02:23:09

System stability, balancing costs and data centre demand

02:27:58

System inertia, local outages and rising balancing costs

02:27:58

Data centres, AI demand and Northern Ireland interconnection

02:32:03

House formal business and Private Members’ Bills

02:35:49

Royal finances message and formal House business

02:35:49

King’s message on Crown finances and hereditary revenues

02:35:49

King’s message — Crown finances and hereditary revenues

02:35:49

Points of order, ministerial accountability and Royal Assent

02:37:17

Points of order on ministerial replies and Royal Assent

02:37:17

Royal Assent follow‑up and Private Members’ Bill presentations

02:39:57

Ten Minute Rule Bill — remote stillbirth registration

02:42:53

Ten Minute Rule Bill — remote registration of stillbirths

02:42:53

Ten Minute Rule — remote registration of stillbirths

02:42:53

Commons — UK strategy on Iran and IRGC

02:51:33

Commons — UK policy towards Iran

02:51:33

Government and backbench debate on UK Iran policy

02:51:33

Government and opposition frontbench — UK Iran policy

02:51:33

Government: UK military posture and Iran policy

02:51:33

Minister: opening statement on Iran and UK military role

02:51:33

Iranian threats in the UK, sanctions and social cohesion

02:57:39

Iran’s nuclear programme and diplomacy framework

03:05:30

Opposition parties — UK strategy on Iran, sanctions and defence

03:08:33

Shadow Minister Morton — UK strategy on Iran, Hormuz and the IRGC

03:08:33

Backbencher Sandher — affordability crisis, defence funding and national unity

03:24:29

Liberal Democrat spokesperson — diplomacy, shipping security and UK sanctions enforcement

03:35:31

Labour backbencher Leishman — US strikes, sanctions and defence spending priorities

03:42:47

Backbench scrutiny and UK policy on Iran

03:53:37

Backbench scrutiny — cancelled debates and UK Iran stance

03:53:37

Conservative backbencher Evans — cancelled opposition days and Iran strategy scrutiny

03:53:37

Chris Vince — condemning Iran, disinformation and alliances

04:07:05

O’Hara — Iran protests, regime repression and impact of US strategy

04:14:59

Brendan O’Hara — Woman, Life, Freedom and regime brutality

04:14:59

O’Hara — critique of Trump’s war and Strait of Hormuz closure

04:20:14

O’Hara — response to Iran’s brutality and US strategy

04:24:58

Iran crisis debate and IRGC measures

04:30:23

Debate opening — Iran crisis and UK policy choices

04:30:23

Debate context — Iran crisis, UK politics and defence funding

04:30:23

Shelbrooke — UK defence funding, hostile states and Iran context

04:30:23

Shelbrooke — NATO role, public threat perception and defence spending

04:30:23

Shelbrooke — Iran’s drones, Ajax failures and unfunded defence plan

04:37:45

Shelbrooke and colleagues — hostile‑state disinformation and need for a lead department

04:43:48

Shelbrooke — China supply chains, Uyghur abuses and Iran’s energy leverage

04:49:27

Debate opening — Iran conflict, UK costs and political context

04:52:31

Clive Jones — Trump–Netanyahu war, Hormuz costs and Lib Dem economic proposals

04:52:31

Stafford — Oxford Union, Widdecombe and PM scrutiny

04:56:05

Stafford — Iran’s regime, protests and UK military response

04:59:10

Backbench MPs — case for IRGC proscription and wider Iran policy

05:05:24

Stafford — IRGC proscription, sanctions and UK leadership

05:05:24

Stafford — IRGC proscription, sanctions and regime threat

05:05:24

Stafford — IRGC proscription implementation and UK leadership

05:08:44

Francois MP — Iran threat, IRGC and UK defence posture

05:12:36

Francois — IRGC terrorism, Reform UK absence and RAF Akrotiri attack

05:12:36

Francois — MI5 Iran plots and support for IRGC proscription

05:17:03

Francois — nuclear weapons risk and Hormuz mine‑countermeasures

05:19:18

Francois — Hormuz blockade, North Sea drilling and defence funding gap

05:24:34

Iran and IRGC — legal basis, threats and party positions

05:34:23

Minister — IRGC SI legal basis and Iran threat context

05:34:23

IRGC designation SI — legal basis and enforcement

05:34:23

Minister — IRGC designation SI timing and antisemitism concerns

05:34:23

Designation powers — protection of journalists and diaspora

05:39:05

Enforcement — councillors, hate speech and penalties

05:41:01

Hostile-state disinformation and Iran’s regional aggression

05:43:20

Disinformation threats and Defending Democracy Taskforce

05:43:20

Strait of Hormuz attacks — UK military role and nuclear demands

05:45:59

Shipping disruption, MMM mission and demining without Iranian consent

05:49:11

Iran threats, detainees and UK response

05:53:20

Iran — UK domestic threats, detainees and human rights

05:53:20

Domestic threats, UK detainees and Iran human rights record

05:53:20

National Security Act designations — case and party positions

05:58:43

National Security Act regulations — opening and legal test

05:58:43

Opening of National Security designation motion

05:58:43

Minister — legal basis and designation of IRGC, IMCR and GRU Volunteer Corps

05:59:23

Party positions — support, enforcement and community protection

06:08:10

Opposition and Lib Dems — support for designations and antisemitism concerns

06:08:10

Backbench Labour tribute and Minister’s closing reply on designation powers

06:16:06

Commons procedure — results of deferred divisions on trade union ballots

04:29:46

Commons procedure — trade union deferred divisions

04:29:46

Commons procedure — deferred votes on trade union rules

04:29:46

Commons procedure — deferred trade union divisions

04:29:46

House of Commons — deferred divisions on trade union voting rules

04:29:46

Deferred divisions — trade union voting statutory instruments

04:29:46

Petitions and adjournment — A1 North Northumberland safety and investment

06:26:32

Adjournment — A1 North Northumberland safety and investment

06:26:32

End-of-day proceedings and A1 adjournment debate

06:26:32

Closing formalities and public petitions

06:26:32

Public petitions on local infrastructure and road safety

06:26:32

National Security motion agreed and presentation of public petitions

06:26:32

Adjournment debate — A1 in North Northumberland

06:29:58

Smith MP — strategic context and safety concerns

06:29:58

Adjournment opened — A1 in North Northumberland

06:29:58

Smith MP — dualling saga, RIS3 and Green Book case

06:39:07

Lamont MP and Minister — dualling cancellation and next steps

06:47:22

Lamont MP — cross‑border A1 upgrade and UK project framing

06:47:22

Minister — cancellation rationale, safety study and regional funding

06:53:02

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House of Commons

15 July 2026

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 Actual start 11:00 House of Commons

34:15 - 34:16

Number one, Mr. Speaker.

34:16 - 34:18

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Minister.

34:18 - 34:20

Speaker 1

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

34:20 - 34:46

Speaker 4

Mr Speaker, our Pride in Place program is supporting local authorities to improve public and community spaces, and this includes 1.5 million pounds for Glasgow City.

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