House of Lords Recess Dates
Subject to the progress of business, the recess dates are expected to be as follows:
EASTER RECESS
The House will be adjourned at the end of business on Thursday 3 April and return on Tuesday
22 April.
WHITSUN RECESS
The House will be adjourned at the end of business on Thursday 22 May and return on Monday
2 June.
SUMMER RECESS
The House will be adjourned at the end of business on Thursday 24 July and return on Monday
1 September.
CONFERENCE RECESS
The House will be adjourned at the end of business on Thursday 18 September and return on Monday 13 October.
CHRISTMAS RECESS
The House will be adjourned at the end of business on Thursday 18 December and return on Monday 5 January.
SITTING FRIDAYS
The House is expected to sit on the following Fridays:
- Friday 28 March
- Friday 25 April
- Friday 9 May
- Friday 6 June
- Friday 13 June
- Friday 4 July
- Friday 18 July
- Friday 5 September
- Friday 12 September
Further sitting Fridays may be announced in due course.
LORD KENNEDY OF SOUTHWARK
February 2025
Thursday 1 May 2025
02:50:55
Estimated Rising Time:
The House is expected to rise by 10pm
Questions on an Urgent Question:
‘To ask His Majesty's Government if they will make a statement on the child rape gang scandal.’ Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (HO)
Questions on an Urgent Question:
‘To ask His Majesty's Government if they will make a statement on the incident that occurred in Headingley on the 26th April.’ Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (HO)
Questions on an Urgent Question:
‘To ask His Majesty’s Government if they will make a statement on the alleged incitement to murder MPs by the Irish Republican group Kneecap.’ Baroness Smith of Basildon (HO)
Questions on an Urgent Question:
‘To ask His Majesty’s Government if they will make a statement on the killing of 26 people in Pahalgam, Kashmir and the increasing tensions between India and Pakistan.’ Lord Collins of Highbury (FCDO)
