Parliamentary Calendar
Follow upcoming business in the House of Commons and House of Lords. The Parliamentary Calendar brings together official sitting dates and scheduled parliamentary business, including bills, questions, committee meetings and debates. Future business can change at short notice.
Parliament today
September 2026
Select a date to see its scheduled business below. Future business remains provisional and can change at short notice.
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee: Visit
Financial Services Regulation Committee: Formal meeting (private meeting)
Environment and Climate Change Committee: Dunkelflaute and the risks of electricity intermittency
Constitution Committee: The UK’s constitutional safeguards
What changed?
- Business title: Formal meeting (oral evidence session) → The UK’s constitutional safeguards
House of Lords Commission Meeting
What changed?
- Start time: Wed 16 Sep 2026, 10:00 BST → Wed 16 Sep 2026, 10:30 BST
- End time: Wed 16 Sep 2026, 12:00 BST → Wed 16 Sep 2026, 12:30 BST
International Relations and Defence Committee: Oral evidence
European Affairs Committee: UK-EU Agreement on Gibraltar (oral evidence session) - 11:00 - 13:30 Wednesday 16 September 2026
Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee: Article 2 of the Protocol/Windsor Framework
What changed?
- Business title: Formal meeting (private meeting) → Article 2 of the Protocol/Windsor Framework
- End time: Wed 16 Sep 2026, 18:00 BST → Wed 16 Sep 2026, 20:00 BST
*Lord Garnier to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reform the recall system for prisoners released on licence serving indeterminate sentences for public protection.
Future parliamentary business may change.
It is expected that Committee stage of the Railways Bill will continue in Committee Rooms 2A and 3A at 4.15pm.
Future parliamentary business may change.
Railways Bill: Committee stage
*Baroness Neville-Rolfe to ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce the £110 billion annual interest bill for servicing Government debt.
Future parliamentary business may change.
*Lord Sikka to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to disable business rates avoidance schemes and the industry promoting them.
Future parliamentary business may change.
Business of the House The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Smith of Basildon) to move that Standing Order 44 (No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with on Wednesday 14 October to enable the Sovereign Grant Bill to be taken th…
Future parliamentary business may change.
The Report from the Retirement and Participation Committee (HL Paper 32)
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About this calendar
Project Open Gov combines official UK Parliament and GOV.UK information to show House sitting status and scheduled parliamentary business. Reviewed Commons and Lords business papers are supplemented with structured data for committees, oral questions and Bill stages.
Schedule notice: future parliamentary business can be changed, added or withdrawn at short notice. The official sources used by the calendar and their data freshness are listed below.
Sources and data freshness
Sources refresh independently, so each is shown with its own latest successful check or reviewed paper date.
- House sitting status
- UK Parliament Parliamentary TimeLast checked 9 Sep 2026, 13:30 BST
- Regional bank holidays
- GOV.UK Bank HolidaysLast checked 8 Sep 2026, 20:00 BST
- Committee events
- UK Parliament Committees APILast checked 9 Sep 2026, 08:50 BST
- Oral-question sessions
- UK Parliament Oral Questions APILast checked 7 Sep 2026, 21:25 BST
- Scheduled Bill stages
- UK Parliament Bills APILast checked 2 Sep 2026, 02:41 BST
- Commons programme
- House of Commons Order PaperLatest reviewed paper 9 Sep 2026
- Lords programme
- House of Lords BusinessLatest reviewed paper 9 Sep 2026