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Mr Speaker announced his chaplain Tricia Hillas is to become a bishop.

He said: “Tricia has had a calming presence, exuding her trademark warmth and giving wise counsel to MPs and staff alike.

“She has been not only a great Speaker’s chaplain, but a great friend.”

The Commons has adjourned for today. Back tomorrow at 9:30am for private members’ bills.

Commons now on the adjournment debate Lee Anderson MP mineworkers’ pension scheme

Congratulations to our friend and colleague Patricia Hillas, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, who has been announced as the next Bishop of Sodor and Man. Tricia Hillas

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Thirty years ago, this week Labour Party leader John Smith died. The hugely respected Scotsman pictured here in the 1983 Shadow Cabinet (5th right) had all the credentials to make a great Prime Minister. For these reasons he’s been inducted into our Hall of Fame. #TowerHallofFame

Next week’s business 👇

Commons has moved on to this debate

Commons now on this ministerial statement from Gillian Keegan MP

Main business today is a debate on a motion on that calls on the Government to deliver prompt compensation to women born in the 1950s who had their state pension age raised.

Died #OnThisDay 1872 William Marshall, Liberal MP for various constituencies, incl Carlisle 1835-47, Cumberland E 1847-68. Derided by Northern Star in 1841 as ‘one of the most useless members that sits in the House of Commons, capable of nothing but discussing wine and walnuts’.

🔴 Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs), Lyn Brown 🌹 is asking an urgent question: 'To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary if he will make a statement on the Government's response to atrocity risks in El Fasher, Sudan.'

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Congratulations to the Commons chaplain Tricia Hillas on her elevation to Bishop of Sodor and Man

Here is today’s order paper commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/87640…

UQs and ministerial statements today 👇