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
December 2026
Select a date to see its scheduled business below. Future business remains provisional and can change at short notice.
Thursday 17 December 2026
No matching scheduled business is currently recorded for this date.
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Schedule notice: future parliamentary business can be changed, added or withdrawn at short notice.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, 19:30 BST
- Regional bank holidays
- GOV.UK Bank HolidaysLast checked 9 Sep 2026, 20:00 BST
- Committee events
- UK Parliament Committees APILast checked 9 Sep 2026, 20:50 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