Between 27 June and 6 October 2018, a major exhibition, Voice & Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament, will be staged in Westminster Hall. Using both interactive features and historic exhibits, Voice & Vote will highlight the campaign for votes for women and the representation of women in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
More details on the Parliament website.
In the UK, salaries are always quoted as gross and figuring out your take home net pay or gross to net salary is your responsibility. This site has calculated carefully all possible gross annual salaries to give you the net salary you will take home. The net salaries are calculated to show the exact amount you will take home after the income tax and national insurance contributions for 2018-2019. You can also check hourly wage calculator which is useful especially for students.
Have a look at the calculator here: Take Home Pay Calculator
Amidst the petabytes of press coverage of the World Cup, Politico has done the one useful thing of finding out where best to watch matches in the vicinity of Westminster (we assume those working in constituency offices have enough local knowledge to track down a screen).
According to today’s London Playbook:
New analysis of 15 years of the Hansard Society‘s Audit of Political Engagement data shows how geography is an important factor in determining whether citizens feel they have influence on decision-making at the national level, even when other key factors that influence political engagement – such as education and social class – are taken into account.
The full report is available to read on the Hansard Society website.
There’s an interesting article in this week’s New Statesman about the life at Westminster for single parent MPs – although there are no official figures, it is thought that the 2017 intake of MPs had the highest ever number of single parents.
The full article is on the New Statesman website.
Did you know that the UK Parliament has a YouTube channel?
As well as subtitled recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, you can also find House of Commons Library Talks, information about how MPs work, the history of Parliament, and much more.