A Bill to make provision about the regulation of small-scale radio multiplex services; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Lord Davies of Gower (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision about the constitution of the Farriers Registration Council and its committees.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 11th January 2017

Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative - Thirsk and Malton)
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A Bill to make provision about the property and affairs of missing persons; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Bob Blackman (Conservative - Harrow East)
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A Bill to make provision about measures for reducing homelessness; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
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A Bill to extend public access to certain local audit documents under section 26 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

A Bill to repeal sections 146(4) and 147(3) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

A Bill to make provision in relation to the procedure to be followed by local authorities when varying the charges to be paid in connection with the use of certain parking places.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Baroness Gale (Labour - Life peer)
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A Bill to make provision in connection with the ratification by the United Kingdom of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention).

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

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.

A Bill to prohibit the wearing of medals or insignia awarded for valour, with the intent to deceive.

A Bill to provide that the Secretary of State’s powers in relation to the management of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, include the power to grant a lease in respect of land for a period of up to 150 years.

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 about protecting existing and established use of property; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision for the pardoning, or otherwise setting aside, of cautions and convictions for specified sexual offences that have now been abolished; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision about the surrender, production or other delivery up of driving licences, or test certificates, in relation to certain offences; to make provision in relation to identifying persons in connection with fixed penalty notices, conditional offers and the payment of fixed penalties under the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 23rd May 2016

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

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

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.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Edward Argar (Conservative - Melton and Syston)
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A Bill to make provision about the registration of marriages.

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

A Bill to make provision about guidance to local authorities on when to take enforcement action for breaches of planning law; to clarify guidance on the scope of permitted development rights; to make provision about rights and entitlements, including of appeal, for people whose homes are affected by such breaches; to make provision for the inspection and regulation of building under the permitted development regime; to establish financial penalties for developers who breach planning law in certain circumstances; 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 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 require the Secretary of State to provide that Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) be a statutory requirement for all state-funded schools; for PSHE to include Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and education on ending violence against women and girls; to provide for initial and continuing teacher education and guidance on best practice for delivering and inspecting PSHE and SRE education; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 to make provision about the number and size of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom; to specify how the size of a constituency is to be calculated; and for connected purposes.

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: 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 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.

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.

A Bill to establish, and make provision about, the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to place a duty on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to align the outcomes of double taxation treaties with developing countries with the goal of the United Kingdom’s overseas development aid programme for reducing poverty and to report to Parliament thereon; 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.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Andrew Gwynne (Labour (Co-op) - Gorton and Denton)
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A Bill to make the completion of disability equality training a requirement for the licensing of taxi and private hire vehicle drivers in England and Wales; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
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A Bill to provide that ​Crown tenancies may be assured tenancies for the purposes of the Housing Act 1988, subject to certain exceptions; to modify the assured tenancies regime in relation to certain Crown tenancies; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to provide that opposite sex couples may enter a civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
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A Bill to establish a target for the reduction of child poverty in the United Kingdom; to make provision about reporting against such a target; and for connected purposes.

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: 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.

A Bill to require assessment of a benefit claimant’s circumstances before the implementation of sanctions; 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: 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: 29th November 2016

Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
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A Bill to make provision to improve access to radiotherapy treatment in England; to define access in terms of the time that patients are required to travel to places providing treatment; to specify 45 minutes as the maximum time patients are to travel; 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.

A Bill to make provision about urban air quality targets relating to diesel emissions; to require vehicle emissions targets and testing to reflect on-road driving conditions; to make the removal or disablement of pollution-reducing devices in vehicles a criminal offence; to provide powers for local authorities to establish low diesel emissions zones and pedestrian-only areas and to restrict the use of roads in urban centres by diesel vehicles; to promote the development of trams, buses and taxis powered by electricity or hydrogen in urban centres for the purpose of improving air quality; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

Anna Turley (Labour (Co-op) - Redcar)
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A Bill to increase the maximum sentences available to the court for specified offences related to animal cruelty; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to increase the sentence available to the court for those convicted of a criminal offence related to animal fighting; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to establish a presumption against licensing arms exports to certain countries designated by the Secretary of State as being countries of concern in relation to their respect for human rights; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision about the disposal of land included in a local authority’s list of assets of community value; 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.

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

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.

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

Introduced: 2nd November 2016

Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
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A Bill to make provision about the freezing and seizing of assets belonging to states or organisations who sponsor or perpetrate acts of terrorism for the purposes of enabling compensation to be paid to the British victims of such terrorism; to provide a definition of British victims for the purpose of eligibility for such compensation; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to enable a person to make his or her instructions concerning burial and related matters binding on their personal representative or beneficiary; to enable a person to make provision about the use of a burial space he or she acquired while living after the person’s burial; 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 require companies offering or marketing holiday accommodation in other countries to British citizens to undertake specified health and safety measures in relation to carbon monoxide emissions; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 28th February 2017

Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
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A Bill to require schools in England to provide access to their premises and pupils to representatives from post-16 education establishments and others providing guidance on careers, training and courses; 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.

A Bill to equalise the assessment and enforcement of child maintenance arrangements of children of self-employed parents with that of children of other employed parents; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision for the children of serving members of the armed forces to have a right of high priority admission to schools outside the normal admission rounds; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to set, measure, enforce and report on air quality targets; to require that vehicle emissions targets and testing reflect on-road driving conditions; to make it an offence to remove permanently devices that reduce vehicle emissions; to provide powers for local authorities to establish low diesel emissions zones and pedestrian-only areas; to restrict the use of diesel vehicles in urban areas; to make provision about the promotion of electric and hydrogen powered vehicles and for the development of sustainable public, private and commercial transport by road, rail, air and sea; 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: 1st March 2017

Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
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A Bill to enable transgender persons to apply to the registrar of companies for England and Wales for documentation relating to their change of name to be treated as protected information under the Gender Recognition Act 2004; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision to safeguard, and for the release of, cash retentions in the construction industry; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 19th October 2016

Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
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A bill to make provision about the training, qualifications and certification of medical practitioners conducting cosmetic surgical procedures; to establish a code of practice for the provision of information to patients on the options and risks in relation to such procedures; to make provision about permissible treatments and the advertising of such treatments; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to repeal provisions in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 requiring teachers, carers and responsible adults to report signs of extremism or radicalisation amongst children in primary school, nursery school or other pre-school educational settings; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision about the aggravated murder of, and aggravated domestic violence against, women, who are citizens of the United Kingdom, outside the United Kingdom; to prohibit the use of the term honour killing in official publications; to require the Government to arrange for, and meet from public funds the costs of, the repatriation of the bodies of female citizens of the United Kingdom who are victims of aggravated murder outside the United Kingdom and the provision of assistance to female citizens of the United Kingdom who are victims of aggravated domestic violence outside the United Kingdom in order to enable them to return to the United Kingdom; to provide for the prosecution in the United Kingdom in certain circumstances of citizens of the United Kingdom who commit the aggravated murder of, or threaten or incite domestic violence against, women, who are citizens of the United Kingdom, outside the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make certain offences including malicious wounding, grievous or actual bodily harm and common assault aggravated when perpetrated against a constable, firefighter, doctor, paramedic or nurse in the execution of his or her duty or against a person assisting these persons in the execution of their duty; to make provision to require those suspected of certain assaults that may pose a health risk, including spitting, to be required to undergo blood tests and to make it an offence, without reasonable excuse, to refuse to undergo such tests; to make provision about the sentences for those convicted of the offences; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the provision of defibrillators in education establishments, and in leisure, sports and certain other public facilities; to make provision for training persons to operate defibrillators; to make provision for funding the acquisition, installation, use and maintenance of defibrillators; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to ensure that all diabetic patients are identified on admittance to hospital and have their diabetes condition monitored while in hospital by a specialist diabetes team; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service in certain circumstances to purchase wines and sparkling wines produced in the United Kingdom and to serve such wines at overseas functions and events; and for connected purposes.

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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: 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.

A Bill applying to England to provide for the introduction of first past the post elections of mayors, the London Assembly and Police and Crime Commissioners; to require elections for mayors, the London Assembly, Police and Crime Commissioners and local authorities to take place on the same day; to abolish the election of councillors by halves or thirds to local authorities; to allow a person to be a Member of the House of Commons and to hold any elected local government office, including that of Police and Crime Commissioner, at the same time; and for connected purposes.

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: 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.

A Bill to grant EU citizens the right to stay resident in the UK following the UK’s withdrawal from membership of the European Union; 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

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.

A Bill to place a duty on lenders and creditors to provide periods of financial respite for families with children and young people in debt in certain circumstances; to place a duty on public authorities to provide access to related advice, guidance and support in those circumstances; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision for the enforcement of Child Arrangement Orders, including times within which enforcement action must take place; to establish a presumption in favour of shared parenting under Child Arrangement Orders; and to make provision for a commission to review and make recommendations on the operation of family justice; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to control the advertising and promotion of feeding products for babies and children; to establish arrangements to set standards for the efficacy of products and to measure claims against those standards; to make provision about penalties for advertisers and promoters who do not meet the standards; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require pre-paid funeral plan contracts to be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority; to amend the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 accordingly; and for connected purposes.

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: 30th November 2016

Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
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A Bill to require football clubs to provide tickets to matches at a discount for persons under a specified age; to require local authorities to consider the needs of match going supporters when approving kick off times; to require football clubs to set aside a proportion of transfer fees paid for the development of football facilities for local clubs and young people; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
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A Bill to amend the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 to apply its provisions to certain sectors including construction, care services, retail, cleaning, warehousing and the transportation of goods; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make gender identity a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 in place of gender reassignment and to make associated provision for transgender and other persons; and for connected purposes.

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.

A Bill to restrict charges for using telecommunications to contact certain government advice services; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 13th July 2016

Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to amend section 33 of the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 to allow local authorities to proscribe, in certain circumstances, the transport of live animals for slaughter abroad via facilities that local authorities control and operate; and for connected purposes

A Bill to make provision to reduce inequalities in the health care received by people with mental illness and learning disabilities; to require commissioners of health services to make an annual report to the Secretary of State on the equality of service provision to, and the health outcomes for, such people and of their qualitative experience of health care services; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
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A Bill to regulate works on certain highways in England by making provision about weekend and bank holiday working and provision about removal of traffic lights and other traffic management measures after the completion of works.

Introduced: 20th December 2016

Lord Hanson of Flint (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; to provide for the exclusion of hereditary peers from the House of Lords over time; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require landlords of tenants in receipt of Universal Credit or Housing Benefit to ensure that their rented accommodation meets minimum standards for the hygienic storage and preparation of food; contains adequate appliances, equipment and utensils for the cooking of food; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to establish a Living Rent Commission to conduct research into, and provide proposals for, reducing rent levels in the private rented sector and improving terms and conditions for tenants; to require the Secretary of State to report the recommendations of the Commission to Parliament; to introduce measures to promote long-term tenancies; to establish a mandatory national register of ​landlords and lettings agents; to prohibit the charging of letting or management agent fees to tenants; and for connected purposes.

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: 19th July 2016

Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
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A bill to require HM Commissioners of Revenue and Customs to record income tax revenues where the payee self-certifies as holding a conscientious objection to public spending on defence purposes and report to Parliament thereon; to place a duty on HM Treasury to take account of the amount and proportion of such self-certified income tax income in preparing the supply estimates; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Lord Lilley (Conservative - Life peer)
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A Bill to require the National Health Service to be exempted from the provisions of international trade and investment agreements; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make the sale, ownership and use of portable laser emitting devices with output power of more than 1 milliwatt unlawful in certain circumstances; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend section 48(4) of the Lee Valley Regional Park Act 1966 to remove the power of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority to raise by way of levy on any local authority whose local authority area falls outside the area defined under section 2(2) of the Act; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
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A Bill to place a duty on local highways agencies and local transport authorities to make provisions safeguarding wildlife on roads passing through, or adjacent to, specified protected areas; 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: 4th July 2016

Anna Turley (Labour (Co-op) - Redcar)
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A Bill to make provision about offences, penalties and sentences in relation to communications containing threats transmitted or broadcast using online social media; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 26th October 2016

Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
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A Bill to amend Part 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 to make provision about maternity and paternity leave for parents of babies born prematurely; and for connected purposes.

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.

A Bill to make provision for the creation of mutual guarantee societies, for their membership by small and medium size businesses for the purpose of lending to and by such business and for their operation; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 13th December 2016

Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
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A Bill to transfer the ownership of the Royal Bank of Scotland to its customers and employees; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to re-establish the Secretary of State’s legal duty as to the National Health Service in England and to make provision about the other duties of the Secretary of State in that regard; to make provision about the administration and accountability of the National Health Service in England; to repeal section 1 of the National Health Service (Private Finance) Act 1997, sections 38 and 39 of the Immigration Act 2014 and Part 9 of the Health and Social Care Information Act 2012; to make provision about the application of international law in relation to health services in the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.

A bill to make provision about mandatory local consultation in relation to changes in services proposed by NHS Trusts and healthcare commissioning authorities; and for connected purposes.

A bill to make provision for the central reporting and registration of agency staff employed by National Health Service trusts, facilities and services; to make provision for the central reporting and recording of absence from work of permanent NHS employees; and for connected purposes

Introduced: 29th June 2016

Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative - Wetherby and Easingwold)
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A Bill to require the Secretary of State to apply the provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to workplace internships; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the transfer of land and assets in Scotland currently in the ownership of Network Rail Limited to a body nominated by the Scottish Government; to transfer responsibilities for the management of the land and assets transferred and for the management and accountability for rail infrastructure in Scotland to the Scottish Government; 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.

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: 8th June 2016

Lord Newby (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Private Members' Bill
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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 enable persons in England to withhold consent for organ donation and transplantation; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 22nd November 2016

Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Private Members' Bill
Ten Minute Bill

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A Bill to amend Part 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 to make provision about leave for persons donating body organs for transplant; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 18th April 2017

Mims Davies (Conservative - East Grinstead and Uckfield)
Private Members' Bill
Ten Minute Bill

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A Bill to make provision for the governance and operation of parish councils in England; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision for the transfer of ownership and return to Greece of the artefacts known as the Parthenon Sculptures, or Elgin Marbles, purchased by Parliament in 1816; to amend the British Museum Act 1963 accordingly; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to make provision about the appropriate level of access to NHS services and accommodation for mothers with perinatal mental illness; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to promote the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace to support coexistence projects and civil society programmes; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend section 71 of the National Health Service Act 2006 to enable schemes under that section to make provision to meet ​liabilities of health and social care providers in respect of integrated health and social care services.

To set a requirement on public institutions, public servants and officials and on those carryingout functions on their behalf to act in the public interest and with candour and frankness; todefine the public law duty on them to assist courts, official inquiries and investigations; toenable victims to enforce such duties; to create offences for the breach of certain duties; toprovide funding for victims and their relatives in certain proceedings before the courts and atofficial inquiries and investigations; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 7th March 2017

Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
Private Members' Bill
Ten Minute Bill

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A Bill to make provision for a national public holiday marking the Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee in 2017 and to establish a framework to ensure that the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and Crown dependencies appropriately commemorate this occasion; and for connected purposes.

A bill to establish a Rail Ombudsman to scrutinise performance and complaints and represent the interests of passengers; to make provision for the Ombudsman to levy fines on train operating companies for late running and cancellation of trains and about the use of such fines; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require the Secretary of State to assume control of passenger rail franchises when they come up for renewal; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require those on the electoral register to produce proof of identity at polling stations before voting; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 13th March 2017

Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Private Members' Bill
Ten Minute Bill

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A Bill to regulate the termination of pregnancies by medical practitioners and to repeal certain criminal offences relating to such terminations; and for connected purposes.

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: 1st November 2016

Martin Vickers (Conservative - Brigg and Immingham)
Private Members' Bill
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A Bill to make provision about the access to education, school admissions and support for special educational needs, with particular reference to children diagnosed with autism; and for connected purposes

A Bill to require those responsible for the selection and interviewing of candidates for, and appointment to, the posts of Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales, the Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England and the President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales to disregard the age of applicants under 70 years of age; and for connected purposes.

Introduced: 8th February 2017

Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Private Members' Bill
Ten Minute Bill

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To make provision for the circumstances in which the sexual history of a victim of rape or attempted rape may be introduced at a trial; to prohibit in certain circumstances the disclosure by the police of a victim’s identity to an alleged perpetrator of a serious sexual crime; to extend the range of serious offences which may be referred to the Court of Appeal on the grounds of undue leniency of the sentence; to amend the requirements for ground rules hearings; to make provision for the issuing in certain circumstances of guidance on safeguarding to schools; to make provision for training about serious sexual offences; to place a duty on the Secretary of State to provide guidelines for the courts in dealing with cases of serious sexual offences; to require the Secretary of State to report annually on the operation of the Act; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to require householders to notify local authorities of an intention to register accommodation for short or holiday lets; and for connected purposes.

A bill to remove the requirement for small co-operative societies to appoint lay auditors; to increase the threshold for co-operative societies to disapply the full audit requirement to the same level as PLCs; to require auditors to report contingent on a threshold of share capital instead of turnover or on a special resolution at a general meeting; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to increase the maximum sentences available to the court for stalking offences; and for connected purposes.

A Bill to amend Part 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to make noise caused by aircraft a statutory nuisance; and for connected purposes.