The price of Royal Mail postage stamps will rise on 2 April 2024 as follows:
You can see the full details of these and other services here: https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalmail.com/files/2024-03/our-prices-april-2024-v1-ta.pdf
Available to all Members’ Staff:
Course Overview
Most of the sessions are now fully booked, but there are still spaces for 26 March 2024 from 09:30 to 11:30. You can also join the wait-list for future sessions.
To sign up or join the wait-list, please go to ACT: https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=2109 and log in using your Parliamentary account.
The ICO is hosting a webinar for Members’ staff on Constituency Casework Data and Dissolution on Thursday 7 March from 2pm.
There will be an open Q&A session where you can ask any questions on this subject.
To attend, please visit this page and then follow the link to register:
The Taylor Bennett Foundation is a charity that exists to encourage people from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background to pursue a career in communications. Their award-winning PR Training Programme is a paid, full-time, eight-week training programme in Public Relations (PR) and Communications designed to equip participants from a Black, Asian & minority ethnic background with the relevant knowledge, insights and skills to work in the PR and communications industry.
They are now looking for applications for their latest round of traineeships, run in partnership with HSBC UK. The programme runs from May 20th – July 10th 2024.
To be eligible
Full details can be found here: https://www.taylorbennettfoundation.org/pr-training-programme-candidates
Closing Date: 15 April 2024
House of Commons Training Session
Course Overview
Sessions available on:
To book, please go here: https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=2109
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Date: Thursday 22 February 2024
Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams
The February 2024 forum will be on the topic of Common employment law disputes. We will be joined by Patrick Brione from the Library’s Business and Transport Section.
To book, please go here: https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/signup.php?s=16610
All MPs’ staff should have received an email inviting them to complete the Wellness Working Group annual survey on wellbeing.
If you haven’t already completed this important survey, w4mp strongly encourages you to do so as soon as possible – the closing date is Friday 19 January 2024.
If you are a member of staff and have not received the invitation, please email mpsstaff-wwg@parliament.uk from your parliamentary network account and they will send you a link.
As we all know, the current set of parliamentary constituencies is being replaced for the next election and the borders of constituencies will change substantially. And because boundary reviews are carried out by separate organisations for each nation that no-one officially produces a single dataset of all the new constituencies covering the whole UK.
However MySociety has done some great work pulling it all together and has created:
See their blog post for full details.
Time: 10:30 – 11:30
Date: Thursday 18 January 2024
Location: Virtual via Microsoft Teams
The January 2024 forum will be on the topic of Boundary changes: how to find data about new constituencies. We will be joined by staff from the Library’s Social and General Statistics Section.
To sign up, please go here: https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/signup.php?s=16606
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has produced a useful explainer on Artificial Intelligence. It describes key definitions, how AI can be used, how it works, concerns, and perceptions of AI.
You can find it here: https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pb-0057/