Find Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the House of Lords. ParliamentNow presents information from the UK Parliament annunciator system, covering both the House of Commons and House of Lords.

The UK public elects 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and propose new laws, and can scrutinise government policies by ...

MPs to hold a debate on the impact of Old Oak Common on rail services to the West and Wales On Tuesday 17 December in Westminster Hall, MPs will hold a debate on the impact of Old Oak Common on rail ...

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The Government publishes a number of Bills each Parliamentary session in draft form before they are introduced in Parliament as formal Bills. A Draft Bill is published to enable consultation and ...

Chroniclers of the Great Fire of London, such as the diarist Samuel Pepys, praised King Charles II and his brother James the Duke of York for their indefatigable assistance to fire fighting.

The summer of 1940 saw the Battle of Britain, the aerial conflict between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffere, reach its apex. When in this speech Churchill stated 'Never in the field of ...

Equal pay was a demand of women campaigners from the 19th century. Read more about the Equal Pay petition, Equal Pay legislation and some of the prominent campaigners. Jean Winder Equal pay petition ...

Committees Much of the work of the House of Commons takes place in committees, made up of around 10 to 50 MPs. These committees examine issues in detail, from government policy and proposed new laws, ...

Women finally got equal voting rights with men when the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 was passed. This allowed women over 21 to vote for the first time. Electoral equality between men and women has been ...

Sir Augustus Clifford (1788–1877) was a Naval Captain appointed Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod from 1832 to 1877. Clifford's long tenure was a time of transition for Black Rod's Office, with a ...

Emily Wilding Davison's diary was kept whilst she was imprisoned in Holloway and includes a graphic description of her hunger strike and her experience of force-feeding in 1912. In the early twentieth ...