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In the 1990s, the catering service was opened to all parliamentary staff as well as MPs. Since 2018, a restaurant called Bellamy's by Logan Brown is located on the third floor of the Beehive, with table reservations now available to all members of the public. [11] [12] Other facilities include a members' only dining room and Pickwick's Bar. [13]
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building.
A series of wall hangings by Heather Dorrough are in the staff dining room, while the historically referenced depiction of Parliament House by Kitzpatrick hangs in the Fountain Court. [ 17 ] Members, ministers rooms and staff rooms are hung with either framed prints or photographs by contemporary Australian artists.
The first floor of Portcullis House is open to members of the public to allow attendance at Committee sessions. Throughout the rest of the building, as with the rest of the Parliamentary Estate, members of the public must remain with a passholder. There is a Post Office branch within Portcullis House that is not open to the public. [3]
It was built in 1912-1917 and has continued to serve the same purpose since then. The restaurant was originally called Le Café du Parlement (Parliament Café), but was renamed Le Parlementaire (French for 'member of Parliament') in 1970. [56] The restaurant was initially open only to members of parliament, but it opened to the general public ...
The arms of former speakers are emblazoned on the cornice of the dining room. [12] A full-length portrait of Speaker Charles Shaw-Lefevre, hung over the fireplace at the completion of the house in 1859. The fireplace in the dining room is made of dark grey marble and is a copy of an ancient fireplace at Windsor Castle. It is 8 feet (2.4 m) high ...
The Parliament of Canada's upper and lower houses are housed in Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex. In 2019, the House of Commons was temporarily relocated to the complex's West Block and the Senate to the Senate of Canada Building , to accommodate the rehabilitation of Centre Block , which began in the same year.
On 14 January 2009, the European Parliament decided to bestow the names of two distinguished and deceased MEPs to specific locations inside the building: the reading room inside the building's library was named Salle Francisco Lucas Pires and the assembly room of the Conciliation Committee was named Salle Renzo Imbeni. [13]