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North Walsall Primary Academy in Blakenall, has around 250 students from Nursery to Year 6. Year 5 and Year 6 with Head of the Academy Sabrina Khera (pictured) visited the Education Centre on 2 April and were given the background to how Parliament works.
It was great to see how the children understood the passage of the Bill.
On 1 April 2025 the Bill had its at Second Reading in the Commons.
The Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords on 4 September 2024 and first read in the Commons on 13 March 2025.
On leaving the EU, the UK set up an independent regime for a product safety and metrology framework.
Since leaving the EU, the legal framework set out in the Agricultural Act 2020 sought to phase out annual payments under the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) over a seven-year period until 2027, replacing the BPS with delinked payments that are not based on the size of land owned by an individual. These Regulations continue the
On 31 March 2025 the Commons considered the Bill at Third Reading. The Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords on 9 October 2024 and first read in the Commons on 12 February 2025.
The Bill will help to introduce Skills England, a new Arm’s Length Body of the Department for Education that will
The Bill returned to the House of Commons on 31 March 2025 with amendments from the House of Lords. 7 amendments were chosen for debate and votes, with the last four grouped together. The amendments were rejected by the Commons with the following results: There were 4 votes in total.
Lords amendment: 1B: Ayes 296 Noes
I was pleased to support and open the IKEA Annual Retail Reception at the House of Commons on 31 March 2025.
The title of the reception this year was 'Better Neighbourhoods: Where Our Neighbourhoods Feel Like Home'. Building on their 'Unwelcome Home' campaign with the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, we heard from IKEA's Sustainability Business
Here you can read the eNews for March 2025
The Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill had 6 amendments selected for debate and votes:
This Bill, introduced to the House on 13 November 2024, amends the non-domestic rating system in England to enable the introduction of new tax rates, introducing powers to create new lower tax rates for qualifying retail, hospitality and leisure properties,