The nursery prenatal yoga classes have been very well received and additional participants are still very welcome to join the current course which takes place every Friday 9.30-10.30 (until the 8th February 2016).

The six-week course is taught by qualified yoga instructor and Club Manager of Westminster Gym, Lauren Griffin.  The course will continue to run on a rolling basis with the next set of classes starting from Friday 19th February 2016.

Anyone can join this six week course at any point, however pre-booking and payment is still required either at a cost of £30 for the full six weeks or will be calculated based on how many weeks are left of the course at the time of joining.

When: Every Friday 9.30-10.30am

Location: Westminster Gym Studio

The course is open to all parliamentary passholders. Please note that participants must be 14 weeks pregnant or more to join this class.

HMRC has supplied us with the latest guidance on Tax and National Insurance contributions for MPs and Ministers.

This guide is to help MPs and Ministers’ with their own personal Tax and National Insurance only; it is not a guide for constituent casework.

If MPs and Ministers would like a copy of this document, please contact us and we will send one via email.  Please note that we will only send this to @parliament email addresses.

Part 6 of the Energy Bill 2015-16 proposes an amendment to the Climate Change Act to adjust the performance measure used in the UK’s statutory carbon budgets. The new measure would include UK territorial emissions only. With this change, credits or debits from the EU Emissions Trading System would not contribute towards the UK’s performance against its carbon budgets from 2028 onwards.

This POSTbrief introduces the carbon budgets, explains the proposed change and outlines the implications of the proposed change.

Measuring Performance for the Carbon Budgets

The next three constituency events will be in Birmingham on 2nd February and Swansea on 9th February and are open to constituency staff.

To book your place please email constituencystaffopenday@parliament.uk at least a week before each event (preferably earlier).

Full details here.

Please note that links to the old Parliamentary intranet have been removed as of October 2023. Please use search on ParliNet to find relevant current details, if available.

https://parlinet.parliament.uk/house-of-commons-members-staff/

The new Serjeant  at Arms will be Mohammed Amal (Kamal) El-Hajji, who is currently Head of Front of House and VIP Relations at the Ministry of Justice. He will take over from Bob Twigger, who has been acting Serjeant at Arms since Lawrence War’s retirement last September.

Described in The Times as ‘a philosophy-loving Moroccan with a black belt in karate’,  Kamal told Commons Monthly “I am deeply honoured and privileged to be selected for this historic role, which dates from 1415. I look forward to taking up duty and following in the footsteps of previous illustrious Serjeants at Arms in serving Parliament.”

For more see Commons Monthly on the Parliamentary Intranet