Today's List(s)

 

TODAY’S LISTS

TUESDAY 22 JULY 2025

[Notes about this document are set out at the end]

 

Business in the Chamber at 2.30pm

Prayers by the Bishop of Newcastle (5 minutes)

 

Introduction

Lord Case will be introduced

 

Oral Questions (40 minutes)

* Earl Russell to ask His Majesty’s Government what impact they anticipate reallocating £2.5 billion of Great British Energy’s planned budget for nuclear energy generation development will have on its ability to deliver on its planned objectives.  (Lord Wilson of Sedgefield, DESNZ)

* Lord Young of Cookham to ask His Majesty’s Government what progress has been made by the Independent Commission into Adult Social Care.  (Baroness Blake of Leeds, DHSC)

* Baroness Kramer to ask His Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in making givinostat available to boys living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy to slow down degeneration particularly becoming unable to walk.  (Baroness Blake of Leeds, DHSC)

* Lord Empey to ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the ‘pull factors’ attracting migrants to enter the United Kingdom illegally.  (Lord Hanson of Flint, HO)

 

Business expected to be brief

Crown Estate (Wales) Bill (Private Members’ Bill) – Report – Lord Wigley

 

Main Business

The following three motions and the amendments to the first motion are expected to be debated together:

Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 – Debate and Approval Motion – Baroness Twycross

• Amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Twycross – Lord Fox
• Amendment to the motion in the name of Baroness Twycross – Baroness Stowell of Beeston

Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 – Debate and Approval Motion – Baroness Twycross

Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 – Debate and Approval Motion – Baroness Twycross

 

Universal Credit Bill (Money Bill) – Second Reading and Remaining Stages – Baroness Sherlock

• Second Reading Amendment Motion – Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

Advisory backbench speaking time:  5 minutes

Speakers:

B Sherlock

V Younger of Leckie

B Tyler of Enfield

B Bennett of Manor Castle

5          B Grey-Thompson

B Andrews

Bp Newcastle

L Rook

B Browning

10        L Hendy

B Shawcross-Wolfson  (Maiden)

L Elliott of Mickle Fell

B Lister of Burtersett

B Brinton

15        L Sikka

L Evans of Rainow

B Bryan of Partick  (Valedictory)

B Ritchie of Downpatrick

B Scott of Needham Market

20        L Liddle

 

L Palmer of Childs Hill

B Stedman-Scott

B Sherlock

B Bennett of Manor Castle

 

Estimated rising time

The House is expected to rise at around 10pm

 

Notes:

• This document sets out the matters for the day’s business which the Government Whips’ Office coordinates: Speakers’ Lists (Companion 4.26), ministerial statements (Companion 6.02) and the grouping of amendments (Companion 8.70). It is not the formal order paper, which is produced by the Clerk of the Parliaments and is available from the Printed Paper Office and https://lordsbusiness.parliament.uk/
• Time estimates are best endeavours: there is no certainty other than for formally time-limited business. It is the duty of individual members to observe the rules on attendance at debate (Companion 4.32) and, in particular, to ensure that they are present for the start of business in which they wish to take part.
• Speaking in debates (Companion 4.34): A member of the House who is taking part in a debate (including general debates and debates on amendments or motions) should attend the start, end and greater part of that debate. In addition, it is considered discourteous for members not to be present for at least the opening speeches, the speeches before and after their own, and for the winding-up speeches.  Ministers may decide not to answer, orally or in writing, points made by a speaker who does not stay to hear the Minister's closing speech. Members who believe that they are unlikely to be able to stay until the end of a debate should not seek to participate in it (and if the debate has a speakers' list, should remove their names from the list).