How statutory instruments (SIs) work in the House of Commons. SIs are the most frequently used type of secondary legislation. Secondary legislation is used to add information or make changes to an ...

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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.

*Slightly shorter tours which include the House of Lords, Central Lobby, St Stephen’s Hall and Westminster Hall, but not the House of Commons. Find out what's on when UK Parliament is sitting Find out ...

Some Command Papers are not given numbers. Unnumbered Command Papers include statements about gifts or guarantees made by government departments. Command Papers are government papers that are ...

Who was Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope? Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), was a scientist, inventor and politician. He was MP for High Wycombe between 1780 and 1786 and sat in ...

Proceedings on railway Bills were far from a foregone conclusion. Many of the best-known railway projects failed at their first attempt. These included the Liverpool and Manchester in 1824 because ...

One of the earliest railway Acts was passed in 1801 for the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway between Wandsworth and Croydon. The number gradually increased, including pioneering lines such as the ...

The dawn of the railways marked a new age of quicker, cheaper communications. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had established the idea that mail could be carried by train, and other railways ...

Turnpikes have been called "one of the central pillars on which the industrial revolution was based". The quality of roads was vital, because many industries producing light high-value goods, notably ...

A private notice question (PNQ) gives a member of the House of Lords the opportunity to ask an urgent and important question to the government on any sitting day. A member of the Lords can apply to ...

Kenneth Morgan, ‘Mercantilism and the British Empire, 1688-1815' in Donald Winch (ed.) The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914, (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 165-92 ...