Women who held property of any kind were required to give up all rights to it to their husbands on marriage. However, a long-running campaign by various women's groups led in 1870 to the Married Women ...

Did social media promote misinformation during the summer 2024 riots? The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold the first public evidence session of its inquiry into social media, ...

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25 was introduced on 17 December 2024. The bill had its second reading on 8 ...

Members discuss proposed changes on legislation to implement new rates announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Steward and Bailiffs of the Chiltern Hundreds and of the Manor of Northstead were positions traditionally paid for by the Crown. In modern times they are unpaid, formal titles that are applied for ...

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Members of the House of Lords begin their line by line scrutiny of the Mental Health Bill in committee stage on Tuesday 14 ...

Affirmative procedure is a type of parliamentary procedure that applies to statutory instruments (SIs). Its name describes the form of scrutiny that the SI receives from Parliament. An SI laid under ...

In medieval times farming was based on large fields, known as open fields, in which individual yeomen or tenant farmers cultivated scattered strips of land. From as early as the 12th century, however, ...

Before 1918 no women were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections. In the early 20th century there were two main groups active in the campaign for women's suffrage, a term used to describe the ...

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would allow adults who have mental capacity, are terminally ill and are in the ...

The sub judice rule prevents MPs or Lords from referring to a current or impending court case. Although the House is entitled under parliamentary privilege to discuss any subject, sub judice applies ...