A Bill to require commercial organisations and public bodies to include a statement on slavery and human trafficking in their annual report and accounts; and to require contracting authorities to exclude from procurement procedures economic operators who have not provided such a statement; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 23rd May 2016

Anna Turley (Labour (Co-op) - Redcar)
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A Bill to amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 to require flour to be fortified with folic acid.

Introduced: 23rd May 2016

James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
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A Bill to make provision for the imposing of restrictions on assets owned by persons involved in supplying terrorist organisations in the United Kingdom with arms, for the purpose of securing compensation for citizens of the United Kingdom affected by the supply of such arms.

A Bill to raise the minimum age of consent to marriage or civil partnership to eighteen; create an offence of causing a person under the age of eighteen to enter into a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 24th May 2016

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to establish a Registrar of lobbyists, a register of lobbyists and a Code of Conduct for lobbyists; and for related purposes.

Introduced: 25th May 2016

Lord Shinkwin (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for disability equality in respect of abortions.

Introduced: 25th May 2016

Baroness Cox (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make further provision about arbitration and mediation services and the application of equality legislation to such services; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 24th May 2016

Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about the approval required for deployment of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces by the Prime Minister in the event of conflict overseas.

Introduced: 24th May 2016

Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011.

Introduced: 6th June 2016

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
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A bill to make provision for the accreditation of child contact centres; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 26th May 2016

Baroness Deech (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; and make provision in connection with financial settlements following divorce.

A Bill to restrict membership of the House of Lords by virtue of a peerage; to make related provision about disqualifications for voting at elections to, and for membership of, the House of Commons; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 24th May 2016

Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 to remove the by-election system for the election of hereditary peers.

Introduced: 26th May 2016

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about elections to and membership of the House of Lords; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 24th May 2016

Lord Lipsey (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 in order to provide for a five year reporting period instead of an annual reporting period.

A Bill to make provision for the regulation of funding and expenditure of political parties; for phased introduction of a cap on donations to political parties; for affiliation fees from trade unions and membership organisations to political parties to be counted as individual donations in prescribed circumstances; for public funding of political parties; for moderation of rights of candidates and parties to election addresses; for limits on political parties’ expenditure between regulated periods; for conferring powers on the Electoral Commission; and for connected purposes.

A bill to make provision for the resolution of disputes concerning the location or placement of the boundaries and private rights of way relating to the title of an estate in land; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision for the establishment and publication of a Register of Arms Brokers.

Introduced: 26th May 2016

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to require Her Majesty’s Government to introduce a Bill to regulate health and social care professions.

A Bill to amend the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; to make provision about rehabilitation periods.

Introduced: 23rd May 2016

Baroness Grender (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the rights of renters.

Introduced: 8th June 2016

Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 8 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision for Members of the House of Lords to vote at elections to the House of Commons.

Introduced: 7th June 2016

Lord Holmes of Richmond (Conservative - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 7 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision for the prohibition of unpaid work experience exceeding four weeks and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 8th June 2016

Lord Addington (Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary)
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First reading took place on 8 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision about special educational needs awareness training to be received by teacher trainees.

Introduced: 14th June 2016

Lord McColl of Dulwich (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to improve support for people exiting prostitution; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 7th June 2016

Lord Trefgarne (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)
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First reading took place on 7 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to amend the law regarding succession to peerages and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 26th May 2016

Lord Sharkey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for non-interest-bearing student finance facilities.

First reading took place on 6 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to create a right to die at home.

Introduced: 8th June 2016

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 8 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision for the sale of adjustable focus spectacles.

A bill to make provision about the promotion of online safety; to require internet service providers and mobile phone operators to provide an internet service that excludes adult-only content; to require information to be provided about online safety by internet service providers and mobile phone operators; to make provision for parents to be educated about online safety; to make provision for the regulation of harmful material through on-demand programme services; to introduce licensing of pornographic services; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 7th June 2016

Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 7 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to amend the Data Protection Act 1998 to make provision about the transparency of privacy notices.

Introduced: 14th June 2016

Baroness Hamwee (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the administration of the affairs of missing persons; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 13th June 2016

Lord Balfe (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about the holding of referenda in relation to voting systems in local government elections.

Introduced: 8th June 2016

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Conservative - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 8 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision for the Secretary of State to have regard to acts of genocide in determining the allocation of international humanitarian assistance.

Introduced: 13th June 2016

Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to provide for the High Court of England and Wales to make a preliminary finding on cases of alleged genocide; and for the subsequent referral of such findings to the International Criminal Court or a special tribunal.

Introduced: 6th September 2016

Lord Desai (Crossbench - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 6 September. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.

Introduced: 9th June 2016

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for equitable access to palliative care services; for advancing education, training and research in palliative care; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 6th June 2016

Lord Dykes (Crossbench - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 6 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision for information to be available in various public places relating to the activities and organisation of the European Union; to make provision for the flying of the flag of the European Union on various government and public buildings; to provide information to further the establishment of twinning arrangements between towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the European Union in accordance with the European Union’s town twinning support scheme; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 8th June 2016

Baroness Hussein-Ece (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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First reading took place on 8 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision about the publication of information related to the differences in remuneration between ethnic groups.

Introduced: 14th June 2016

Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for a national strategy for cost-effective and efficient use of energy; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 14th June 2016

Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision for the support of the United Kingdom’s business sector; and the development of an industrial and retail strategy.

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Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)
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A Bill to require the Secretary of State to introduce proposals to halve the disability employment gap; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 13th June 2016

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to provide certain protections for persons who live together as a couple or have lived together as a couple; and to make provision about the property of deceased persons who are survived by a cohabitant; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 9th June 2016

Baroness Tyler of Enfield (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to entitle employees to take a period of leave to fulfil certain caring responsibilities in respect of dependants; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 15th June 2016

Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend the target for reducing net carbon emissions in the UK to 100% by 2050.

A Bill to make provision for licensing authorities to restrict the number of Category B2 gaming machines which may be authorised under a betting premises licence.

First reading took place on 7 June. This stage is a formality that signals the start of the Bill's journey through the Lords.Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.The 2016-2017 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision about the establishment, independence, funding and governance arrangements of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

A Bill to make provision to enhance the protection available for bat habitats in the non-built environment and to limit the protection for bat habitats in the built environment where the presence of bats has a significant adverse effect upon the users of buildings.

A Bill to make provision for the automatic electoral registration of school students who have reached the age of 16; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 9th June 2016

Lord Hayward (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to enable competent adults who are terminally ill to be provided at their request with specified assistance to end their own life; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 9th June 2016

Lord Dholakia (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
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A Bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility; and for connected purposes.