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Tomorrow's Budget will be all about the headlines. We care about the detail.
Under the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968, some changes take effect on the day, before a Finance Bill even exists.
So a tax can change tomorrow afternoon while the legislation behind it is still being written and amended.
Parallel Parliament tracks those amendments as they happen, so our customers and their clients are never left in the dark.
See how it works, here: parallelparliament.co.uk/bil…
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Who will take home £150? 🏆
With Labour Conference taking place this weekend, Faces of Parliament - Labour Edition is back, and better than ever!
Put your Labour knowledge to the test: 15 faces, a ticking clock and a £150 prize for the winner.
You can also compete within your own organisation, with a dedicated leaderboard showing who’s best at putting names to faces.
Think you can top it?
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A new session means the return of Monday afternoon e-petition debates.
Thanks to @GideonJAmos and @DrScottArthurMP for being the most enthusiastic advocates of this democratic forum.
Congratulations to @GideonJAmos and @DrScottArthurMP for winning the ‘Vox Petentium, Vox Dei” award, for contributing to the most e-petition debates in the last session.
#ppawards
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Thanks to @politico for mentioning our awards last week.
Here's one of our favourites @RhonddaBryant and other Ministers for the pithiest responses to Written Questions
Congratulations @RhonddaBryant for winning the ‘Short Shrift’ award, for pithiest responses to Written Questions. #ppawards #councilelections #localelections
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Thanks to @politico for highlighting our awards last week. See the full list here: @ParallelParl
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Congratulation to @simonlightwood for winning the ‘Dinner at your desk’ award, for performing more Monday night Adjournment debates than any other Minister.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections
Parliament may enjoy a late start on Monday, but a late starts make for a late finish.
The end of day adjournment debate begins at 10pm on a Monday, a time not renowned for it's popularity of attendance.
But, @simonlightwood manned the darkened despatch box 5 times during the last session. We noticed you were there, even if others might have wondered where you were.
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Honourable mentions to @LilianGreenwood, @AlexDaviesJones, and @joshmacalister for riding the frontbench late into the night on 4 occasions.
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Congratulations again to @jimshannonmp for winning the ‘Countdown Conundrum' award, for contributing the most unique 9 letter words to Hansard in the last session.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections
Other notable contributions were
@PeterPrinsley with a great set of:
'occluding', 'syringing', 'olfactory' and 'pyramidal'
@ChrisMcDonaldMP in his element with:
'germanium', 'neodymium' and 'quiescent'
@wesstreeting with a the glorious combination of:
'cockroach', 'brassiere', 'resenting' and 'flouncing'
@dawnbutlerbrent for the unique pairing of:
'celibates' and 'fantasist'
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Special mention to those who provided words that had to be looked up:
@LewisAtkinson with ‘'gimcracks'
@BrianMathewLD with ‘charabanc'
and not forgetting
@MartinRhodes21 for the sole use of the word 'defecated'
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Congratulations to @johnmcdonnellMP for winning the ‘Read the Standing Orders!’ award, for raising the most Points of Order of any MP.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections
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@johnmcdonnellMP (acting as a Privy Councillor) also informed the Commons in November 2025 that King Charles had signified Kings Consent to the Planning and Infrastructure bill.
This was either a hitherto unknown and unexpected readmission to the inner circle of Government or an expression of the meaningless of certain parliamentary procedures…
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Honourable mentions to @GrahamStuart and @DSimmonds_RNP for their 16 points of order, ensuring no opportunity to raise an argument went wasted
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Congratulation to @HFalconerMP for winning the ‘Speaker Ruined My Lunch’ award, for answering more Urgent Questions than any other Government Minister.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections
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One of the great privileges of junior ministerial office: being hauled into Parliament with two hours’ notice to defend someone else’s disaster, on a subject you probably woke up knowing absolutely nothing about.
@HFalconerMP, the 16 times you performed this duty has not gone unnoticed.
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Honourable mentions to @AnnelieseDodds for stepping up 11 times and @SDoughtyMP for dropping his lunch 9 times.
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