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Select Committee Inquiry
UK-Swiss Financial Services Agreement
Inquiry Opened: 26th Jan 2024
International Agreements Committee

The Committee has invited evidence on the Berne Financial Services Agreement. The Government notified the treaty to Parliament in December 2023 under the terms of the Constitutional and Reform Governance Act 2020 (CRAG).


Select Committee Inquiry
Access to Cash
Inquiry Opened: 24th Jan 2024
Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations

Select Committee Inquiry
NHS leadership, performance and patient safety
Inquiry Opened: 23rd Jan 2024
Health and Social Care Committee

The Committee is examining the relationship between leadership in the NHS and performance/productivity as well as patient safety. It will consider the findings of and implementation of recent reviews of NHS leadership, such as the Messenger (2022) and Kark (2019) reviews as they relate to patient safety, as well as …


Select Committee Inquiry
The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology
Inquiry Opened: 17th Jan 2024
Communications and Digital Committee

News providers are facing a challenging future: new technologies, disruption to business models, declining trust and growing concerns around impartiality present a complex, interrelated and difficult problem.  

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will examine a selection of strategic challenges facing the sector, and identify the actions required …


Select Committee Inquiry
International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Opened: 12th Jan 2024
Foreign Affairs Committee

In 2021, the Committee’s report In the room: the UK’s role in multilateral diplomacy concluded that autocratic states were attempting to aggressively co-opt strategically important multilateral organisations and to fundamentally redefine their founding principles. Since that time, major world events have led to further questioning of the institutions themselves and …


Select Committee Inquiry
Defending Democracy
Inquiry Opened: 10th Jan 2024
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)

In 2024, there are expected to be over 70 elections around the world. As the UK approaches its next general election, JCNSS is launching its inquiry into ‘Defending Democracy’ to better understand how threats to the UK’s democracy may evolve and be addressed. This will primarily focus on the work …


Select Committee Inquiry
Draft Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (Remedial) Order 2023
Inquiry Opened: 10th Jan 2024
Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Select Committee Inquiry
Veterinary medicines and the Windsor Framework
Inquiry Opened: 8th Jan 2024
Windsor Framework Sub-Committee

The Committee is conducting a new inquiry into veterinary medicines and the Windsor Framework. From 31 December 2025, the grace period for veterinary medicines will end. In the absence of any alternative agreed solution, the UK must ensure that supplies of veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland conform with relevant EU …


Select Committee Inquiry
The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory
Inquiry Opened: 19th Dec 2023
Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories

Opportunity for the Committee to receive oral and written evidence on the current situation regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory.


Select Committee Inquiry
Industrial policy
Inquiry Opened: 19th Dec 2023
Business and Trade Committee

The Business and Trade Committee is launching a programme of work to scrutinise the UK Government’s approach to industrial policy, which will examine how industrial policy can be used to build on the UK’s strengths and competitive advantages, enhance economic security and help the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.