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.

Britain acquired the Cape of Good Hope Colony at the southern tip of Africa in 1815 and annexed the adjacent coastal region of Natal in 1843. Self-governing colony status was established in both in ...

Parliament examines what the Government is doing, makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes and debates the issues of the day. The House of Commons and House of Lords each play an important role in ...

The House of Commons processes the personal data of a wide range of individuals including (but not limited to) members of the public, House of Commons staff, contractors, MPs and their staff, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1857, William Ewart Gladstone took out this subscription to Hansard, 10 years before he first became Prime Minister; he eventually served as Prime Minister of four administrations (1868–74, 1880–85 ...