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APPGs cease to exist when Parliament is dissolved for a general election, and must be reconstituted. [citation needed] The official register of APPGs is updated about every six weeks. [6] The number of APPGs is very variable. For example, in 2015 there were more than 550 APPGs. [7] On 2 January 2019, there were 692 APPGs. [8]
This is a list of parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House. [1] The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England (established 1215) and the Parliament of Scotland (c. 1235), both Acts of Union stating, "That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be styled The Parliament of Great Britain."
This Parliament first met on 17 December 2019. [1] [2] [3] After the swearing-in of members and the election of Speaker, the State Opening of Parliament took place on 19 December. [4] The 2021 State Opening of Parliament began the second session on 11 May 2021. [5] The 2022 State Opening of Parliament began the third session on 10 May 2022.
The Long Parliament, which commenced in this reign, had the longest term and the most complex history of any English Parliament. The entry in the first table below relates to the whole Parliament. The entry in the first table below relates to the whole Parliament.
When the UK Parliament was established in 1801, non-Anglicans were prevented from taking their seats as MPs under the Test Act 1672. However, Methodists took communion at Anglican churches until 1795, and some continued to do so, and many Presbyterians were prepared to accept Anglican communion, thus ensuring that members of these creeds were ...
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807, Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807; Chronological ...