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Parliamentary Book Club meets this Thurs 21 March

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Meeting this Thursday (21st March) for lunch at 12.30pm at Bellamy’s 1 Parliament Street.  We usually meet in the small area on the way into the entrance.

Currently reading C J Sansom’s ‘Dominion’ – an intriguing ‘what if’ surrounding events in Britain when readers discover we surrendered to the Germans…….

Also Dee Brown’s ‘ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ – a well researched factual account of what really happened to native Indians as settlers spread across America in the 19th century.

New members always welcome – for more information call Philipa 07592 386493

The Book Club’s page is here.

Commons Library on Twitter

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Would you like to like to have quick and easy access to all the latest briefing and research papers of a topical interest for MPs and their staff?  Of course you would.

In case you haven’t already spotted it, the Commons Library have a Twitter account which can be viewed at: https://twitter.com/commonslibrary.

W4MP have always said that the Library is your best friend in Parliament. Although the Library can trace its root back nearly 200 years, it doesn’t mean the Library isn’t focused on the needs of Parliamentarians today. Try them and see!

Parliament’s on-site daycare nursery.

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Work at Westminster and looking for nursery care for your children?

Here’s what is on offer:

  • Children aged 3 months to 5 years welcome
  • Qualified and friendly staff
  • Outstanding Ofsted rating for partnership with parents
  • Modern and secure facility with a wide range of resources
  • Balanced and healthy meals available
  • Pre-school education meeting Early Years Foundation requirements
  • All childcare vouchers accepted

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If you fit one of these categories:

  • House of Commons Members and Staff,
  • House of Commons and PICT employees,
  • House of Lords Peers and Staff,
  • Press Gallery Media Pass Holders,
  • Whitehall Parliamentary Pass Holders and
  • Contractors situated on the Parliamentary Estate.

…..then here are the people to contact:

 

 

Pensions Advisory Service toolkit for MPs and Staff

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The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) is a non-departmental body that provides free advice and guidance to the public on issues relating to pensions.

They have produced a toolkit for MPs and their staff and you can see it here. Here’s what it covers:

1) Who they are and what they do

2) How their advisers can help your constituents

3) How they can support your parliamentary work

4) Online planning tools

5) Other helpful organisations in the pensions sector

6) How to contact them.

W4MP will be adding this to our guides in the near future (and we shall let you know when this happens) but, meanwhile, we thought you’d like to have immediate access.

Staff enewsletter Commons View Issue 8 available now

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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/

Issue 8 of Commons View is now online on the intranet.  Commons View is the enewsletter for Members’ staff provided by the House of Commons Service.  Inside this issue:

  • New toner supplier contract – QC Supplies;
  • Changes to the e-tabling system;
  • Latest jobs available;
  • Speaker’s Parliamentary Placement Scheme update;
  • parliOUT event;
  • Find out about the courses available to you;
  • and much more…

 

Don’t forget: if you would like to offer feedback, submit an article for inclusion in future editions of Commons View or have ideas on how to improve House services available to Members’ staff, contact [email protected].