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The main chamber debate on the King's Speech continues Tuesday with the energy security day, giving MPs the opportunity to range across the proposed Energy Independence Bill — which would scale up homegrown renewable energy and protect living standards for the long term — alongside the Nuclear Regulation Bill and Electricity Generator Levy Bill, all central to the government's argument that energy independence must be a long-term goal of national security. At 2:30pm the Home Affairs Committee takes evidence from Baroness Anne Longfield and her fellow panellists on the statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs, formally commenced by the Home Secretary on 13 April 2026, with the inquiry's three-year timetable and £65 million budget both likely to face scrutiny; the criteria for selecting local areas of investigation are due to be published within three months of that start date, making the committee's session one of the first opportunities to press the chair on geographic scope and the pressure to include towns beyond Oldham. At 10am the Defence Committee continues its inquiry into the Afghan data breach, examining the circumstances and consequences of the February 2022 Ministry of Defence data breach, which exposed the personal details of thousands of Afghan applicants and their families, and whether successive governments took well-informed decisions under cover of an unprecedented super-injunction; the inquiry's estimated resettlement cost has reached £5.7 billion for all Afghanistan resettlement schemes, according to recent National Audit Office figures, and with up to 27,278 people affected by the breach potentially eligible for resettlement, the financial and human stakes remain acute.