The primary purposes of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum are to provide a mechanism for dialogue and cooperation between parliamentarians from the Parliaments and Assemblies in meeting common scrutiny challenges arising from the new constitutional arrangements following the UK’s departure from the EU and to co-operate in finding solutions to overcome them. This will involve developing an inter-parliamentary approach aimed at ensuring appropriate levels of respective Ministerial accountability and transparency in a range of areas which in many cases may require new scrutiny processes. The IPF provides a collective space to share information about, and does not supplant, each parliament’s scrutiny of its executive.
Initial priorities for the forum will include oversight of:
The Inter-Parliamentary Forum met in the House of Lords on 25 February 2022.
Read the Joint Statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: UK Parliament
The Inter-Parliamentary Forum met in Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 28 October 2022.
Read the Joint Statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: Welsh Parliament (the Senedd)
The Inter-Parliamentary Forum met in the House of Commons on 24 March 2023.
Read the Joint Statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: House of Commons (79KB, pdf) posted 27 March 2023
The Inter-Parliamentary Forum met in the Scottish Parliament on 27 October 2023.
Read the Joint Statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: Scottish Parliament (211KB, pdf) posted 05 February 2024
The Inter Parliamentary Forum met in the House of Lords on 29 February 2024
Read the Joint Statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: House of Lords
The Inter-Parliamentary Forum met in the Northern Ireland Assembly on the 15 November 2024
Read the joint statement of the Interparliamentary Forum: Northern Ireland Assembly
The Committee has sent and received the following correspondence during the inquiry:
Letter from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, 21 March 2024
Letter from Baroness Drake to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, 5 March 2024
Response from the Secretary of State to the Committee's letter stemming from the meeting of the Interparliamentary Forum on 27 October, received 19 December 2023
Letter from the Convener to Rt. Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, 7 November 2023
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery on Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee (IMSC) that took place on the 29th of June.
Letter from the Senedd’s Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee notifying the Committee of a recent letter to the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regarding the UK Government’s intention to legislate to remove the Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017, 21 July 2022.
Letter from the Senedd’s Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee notifying the Committee of a recent letter to the UK Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities regarding intergovernmental relations and proposals for UK Bills to legislate in devolved areas, 20 July 2022.
Letter from Neil Gray, Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development and Minister with special responsibility for Refugees from Ukraine providing an update regarding a meeting of the Interministerial Group (IMG) on UK-EU Relations that took place on the 4 July received on the 13th July 2022.