These opportunities and resources have been compiled by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) to help you understand how to engage with Parliament as a researcher.

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Select committees currently accepting written evidence (compiled 12 November 2025)

Please click the title of any inquiry listed below to be taken to a summary of that inquiry and the full call for evidence. Remember that you don’t have to answer every question posed in each call for evidence.

New calls for evidence:

All other inquiries currently accepting written evidence:

Why should I engage? Submitting evidence to a select committee can lead to further engagement, such as an invitation to give oral evidence. Your submission will be published on the Committee webpage. Your insights may inform the Committee’s conclusions or recommendations it makes to the Government. Find out more about why to engage with Parliament here. And find more on engagement for impact here.  

What should I expect? All evidence will be read and taken into consideration, but you may not receive a direct response from us or the Committee. To stay informed, we encourage you to follow the progress on the respective committee / inquiry webpages.

More information: all inquiries currently accepting evidence are found here  
Guidance on submitting evidence to Commons select committees
Guidance on submitting evidence to Lords select committees

Contribute to a new POSTnote

Share your research and expertise to contribute to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology’s (POST) new POSTnotes.

POST collaborates with stakeholders and researchers from industry, government, academia and specialist research institutions, the third sector and beyond, to help identify important themes, source critical literature, and peer-review the final reports. POST is calling for researchers with expertise in the below areas to share their research and knowledge to contribute to the new POSTnotes. They welcome hearing from researchers working within all disciplines.

What are POSTnotes?
POSTnotes are comprehensive, trusted, and impartial briefings on new and emerging research areas from across science and the social sciences. They inform parliamentary debate, support decision-making, and help parliamentarians scrutinise government policy. 

Why should I get in involved?
Sharing your expertise to contribute to POST’s work can be a time-efficient way to get your research in front of parliamentarians. To tell us about your work please share your personal details, a brief summary of your expertise and key issues relevant to the briefing topic through the links listed below. 

What happens when I share my research insights?
POST carefully reviews and considers the information you provide. It draws on the research that fits best with the briefing and references this research in the publication. POST sometimes also contacts contributors to obtain further information. It is not possible to discuss individual contributions, not all submissions will be used, nor all researchers contacted. Rest assured POST will reach out to you should they need further information. There is also no need to highly polish the wording when you share your research insights through the form. POST rewords all submissions to fit seamlessly within the published briefing.

All submissions used will be credited in the publication which will be available online with open access on POST’s website: https://post.parliament.uk/. 

For guidance or to find out more about how POST acknowledges contributions browse the webpage: contributing to POST research as an expert. 

Small-scale solar: This POSTnote will consider what small-scale solar could contribute to delivering energy and climate policy, and how it might be optimised. It will summarise the economic and regulatory framework focusing on the rooftop solar build out and looking at potential benefits and barriers to deployment.

Public engagement with the energy transition:  This POSTnote will look at how the public views and interacts with the energy transition including how techniques can be used to increase engagement with the government’s clean power mission. It will consider how engagement is changing and the potential challenges. 

Nature based flood and drought resilience: This POSTnote will consider the key challenges and benefits of using nature-based solutions to increase resilience to flood and drought events. This will include consideration of landscape restoration and the 2022 roadmap for the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy.

Use of evidence in conservation practice: This POSTnote will consider what is required to develop robust evidence for nature conservation interventions to deliver successful nature recovery strategies in the UK. It will summarise relevant approaches, determine ‘what works’, and their challenges and benefits.

Research and development for UK Defence: The UK’s defence innovation system is undergoing significant change. This POSTnote will consider how defence research in the UK is structured and coordinated, what the barriers to innovation are and how they can be addressed.

Why should I engage? 
POSTnotes are used by Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords and UK Parliament staff to navigate complex research. Contributing to a POSTnote is a good way of feeding your expertise into the UK Parliament as part of a trusted, impartial publication. All contributors are acknowledged when the POSTnote is published. On publication, you and your organisation’s communications team will be notified to publicise the POSTnote and your contribution. Therefore, your contribution can help raise your profile and promote your research. 

What should I expect?
All submissions will be read and taken into consideration, but you may not receive a direct response. To stay informed about POST’s work we encourage you to subscribe to receive notifications of publications and new research briefings. 

More information 
Find out more about contributing to a POSTnote as an expert.
For queries about POST or POSTnotes contact POST.

Reminder

House of Commons Library open day: On Wednesday 18 February 2026 visitors can learn about the impartial and important work of the House of Commons Library. The event is aimed at people working within the library and information field. The event costs £26 and includes lunch. There are limited places available. For more information visit the Commons Library website. 

Register your interest to attend by Monday 24 November 2025 (by 23:00).

Budget Banter Part II: From Bougettes to Whiskey

In the 23 October round-up we explored the government’s upcoming autumn budget, which will be delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves on 26 November. After the budget has been presented, the Commons debates its content, usually over four days. The debate concludes with votes to temporarily approve some of the tax changes. These changes will be permanently approved in the subsequent Finance Bill, along with other tax measures announced in the Budget. The Finance Bill is one of the rare bills the Lords cannot amend. 

So what? 

We previously suggested having an online analysis available and ready to go as soon as possible to inform the autumn budget reaction parliamentary briefing paper, and to point committee staff towards. The policies announced in the budget can also have an impact on the subsequent inquiries that select committees run. This is an opportunity to get involved across a more extended timescale, through either oral or written evidence. You can spot when new calls for evidence are announced in the select committee section of this round up.

More information: 

Bonus Budget Trivia:

  • The Chancellor who delivered the most budgets was William Gladstone with 12.  Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was close behind with 11. 
  • The term budget derives from the French word ‘bougette’, which means ‘little bag’. Hence the Chancellor is said to ‘open’ their budget. 
  • Thatcher’s Chancellor Geoffrey Howe was so fond of the annual event, that he named his dog ‘Budget’. 
  • Chancellors are allowed to break with tradition and drink alcohol in the House of Commons Chambers during their budget speech, although in practice, few do. Some exceptions were Kenneth Clarke, whose preference was a whiskey, and Geoffrey Howe who was known to take a G&T with his budget. 

Today’s fact was brought to you by the awesome Dr Jane Parry, the UK Parliament’s Thematic Research Lead for Business, Economics and Trade and Associate Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Southampton, alongside her excellent colleagues in the Commons Library.