Government Bills of the 2017-19 Session


67 Bills Most Recently Tabled

Introduced: 16th July 2019

A has been called and Parliament is no longer sitting. The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before . This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill To make provision in relation to domestic abuse; to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of a Domestic Abuse Commissioner; to prohibit cross-examination in person in family proceedings in certain circumstances; to make provision about certain violent or sexual offences, and offences involving other abusive behaviour, committed outside the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 60%

Last Event - Committee Debate: 3rd Sitting: House Of Commons
Thursday 31st October 2019
(Read Debate)
Introduced: 4th July 2019

Extend the period for forming an Executive under section 1(1) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 and to impose a duty on the Secretary of State to report on progress towards the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th July 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th July 2019

Extend the period for forming an Executive under section 1(1) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 and to impose a duty on the Secretary of State to report on progress towards the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th July 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 2nd July 2019

A Bil to Authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2020; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2019.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2019 and was enacted into law.


To make provision about the mode of trial and maximum penalty for certain offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Commons - 80%

Last Event - Committee Stage: House Of Commons
Thursday 25th July 2019
Introduced: 25th June 2019

A has been called and Parliament is no longer sitting. The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before . This means the Bill will make no further progress. A bill to make provision about the Commonwealth Games that are to be held principally in Birmingham in 2022, and for connected purposes.

Lords Completed
Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading: House Of Commons
Thursday 24th October 2019

A Bill to confer relief from non-domestic rates for hereditaments in England and Wales that consist wholly or mainly of public lavatories; and for connected purposes

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading: House Of Lords
Wednesday 10th July 2019
Introduced: 13th June 2019

The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to Make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 80%

Last Event - Committee Stage: House Of Commons
Tuesday 2nd July 2019

Commons Completed
Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading: House Of Lords
Monday 30th September 2019
Introduced: 12th June 2019

A Bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law

Lords - 80%

Last Event - Report Stage : House Of Lords
Wednesday 16th October 2019
(Read Debate)
Introduced: 8th May 2019

A Bill to make provision in connection with works for or in connection with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster and other works relating to the Parliamentary Estate; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 8th October 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 1st May 2019

A Bill to amend the Census Act 1920 and the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 in relation to the provision of particulars about sexual orientation and gender identity

This Bill received Royal Assent on 8th October 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 1st May 2019

The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to provide for online procedures in civil and family courts in England and Wales in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and in employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal

Lords Completed
Commons - 60%

Last Event - Committee Stage: House Of Commons
Tuesday 23rd July 2019

A Bill to make provision to prohibit the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th July 2019 and was enacted into law.


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

This Bill received Royal Assent on 9th September 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 25th April 2019

A Bill to provide for Class 1A national insurance contributions on certain termination awards; and to provide for the controller of a sporting testimonial to be the person liable to pay Class 1A national insurance contributions on payments from money raised by the testimonial.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 24th July 2019 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision enabling the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to incur expenditure in connection with digital services to be provided by them for the purpose of facilitating the administration or payment of non-domestic rates in England

This Bill received Royal Assent on 4th July 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th February 2019

To authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of the years ending 31 March 2019 and 2020; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for those years; to revise the limits on the use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31 March 2019; and to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland to borrow on the credit of the sum appropriated for the year ending 31 March 2020.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th February 2019

Make provision about the regional rate in Northern Ireland for the year ending 31 March 2020; and amend the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 26th February 2019

To authorise the use of resources for the years ending with 31 March 2018, 31 March 2019 and 31 March 2020; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for those years; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for the years ending with 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th December 2018

The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision to end rights to free movement of persons under retained EU law and to repeal other retained EU law relating to immigration; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to social security co-ordination; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 80%

Last Event - Committee Debate: 9th Sitting: House Of Commons
Tuesday 5th March 2019

The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill was introduced to authorise the making of provision by reference to certain EU financial services legislation adopted on or before, or no later than two years after, the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU

Lords Completed
Commons - 60%

Last Event - Committee Debate: House Of Commons
Tuesday 26th February 2019
Introduced: 1st November 2018

A Bill to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the national debt and the public revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2019 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to Make provision about paying and arranging for healthcare provided outside the United Kingdom and giving effect to healthcare agreements; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2019 and was enacted into law.


The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to make provision about policy objectives in relation to fisheries, fishing and aquaculture; to make provision about access to British fisheries; to make provision about the licensing of fishing boats; to make provision about the determination and distribution of fishing opportunities; to make provision enabling schemes to be established for charging for unauthorised catches of sea fish; to make provision about grants in connection with fishing, aquaculture or marine conservation; to make provision about the recovery of costs in respect of the exercise of public functions relating to fish or fishing; to confer powers to make further provision in connection with fisheries, aquaculture or aquatic animals; to make provision about byelaws and orders relating to the exploitation of sea fisheries; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 80%

Last Event - Committee Debate: 9th Sitting: House Of Commons
Monday 17th December 2018
(Read Debate)
Introduced: 18th October 2018

To facilitate the formation of an Executive in Northern Ireland by extending the time for making Ministerial appointments following the election of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 2 March 2017; and to make provision about the exercise of governmental functions in, or in relation to, Northern Ireland in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 1st November 2018 and was enacted into law.


The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill To authorise new expenditure for certain agricultural and other purposes; to make provision about direct payments during an agricultural transition period following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union; to make provision about the acquisition and use of information connected with food supply chains; to confer power to respond to exceptional market conditions affecting agricultural markets; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to agricultural and rural development payments and public market intervention and private storage aid; to make provision about marketing standards and the classification of carcasses; to make provision for the recognition of associations of agricultural producers which may benefit from certain exemptions from competition law; to confer power to make regulations about contracts for the purchase of agricultural products from agricultural producers and securing compliance with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 80%

Last Event - Committee Debate: 13th Sitting: House Of Commons
Tuesday 20th November 2018

A Bill to amend the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to procedures in accordance with which a person may be deprived of liberty where the person lacks capacity to consent, and for connected purposes

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th May 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 3rd July 2018

To authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2019; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2018.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th July 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th June 2018

A Bill to make provision about overseas production orders

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th June 2018

To authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of the year ending 31 March 2019; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources (including accruing resources) for the year ending 31 March 2019; and to repeal certain spent provisions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th July 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 21st June 2018

To make certain acts of voyeurism an offence, and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th June 2018

To make provision for and in connection with offences relating to offensive weapons.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th May 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 6th June 2018

To make provision in relation to terrorism; to make provision enabling persons at ports and borders to be questioned for national security and other related purposes; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2019 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 23rd May 2018

A Bill to make provision about the judiciary and the functions of the staff of courts and tribunals

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th December 2018 and was enacted into law.


Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 20 December 2018. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). A Bill to prohibit dealing in ivory, and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th December 2018 and was enacted into law.


To make provision for buildings used as nursery grounds to be exempt from nondomestic rates in England and Wales.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 1st November 2018 and was enacted into law.


Make provision prohibiting landlords and letting agents from requiring certain payments to be made or certain other steps to be taken; to make provision about the payment of holding deposits; to make provision about enforcement and about the lead enforcement authority; to amend the provisions of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 about information to be provided by letting agents; to make provision about client money protection schemes; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2019 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision, where two or more hereditaments occupied or owned by the same person meet certain conditions as to contiguity, for those hereditaments to be treated for the purposes of non-domestic rating as one hereditament; and to increase the percentage by which a billing authority in England may increase the council tax payable in respect of a long-term empty dwelling.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 1st November 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 21st March 2018

A Bill to confer power on the Secretary of State to determine salaries and other benefits for Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly in respect of periods when there is no Executive.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th March 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 21st March 2018

A Bill to make provision about the regional rate in Northern Ireland for the year ending 31 March 2019; and amend the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th March 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th March 2018

A Bill to make provision about whiplash claims and the personal injury discount rate.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th December 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th March 2018

A Bill to Authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of the years ending 31 March 2018 and 2019; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for those years; to revise the limits on the use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31 March 2018; and to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland to borrow on the credit of the sum appropriated for the year ending 31 March 2019.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th March 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th February 2018

To authorise the use of resources for the years ending with 31 March 2017, 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for the years ending 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for the years ending with 31 March 2017 and 31 March 2018.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2018 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision for the imposition of a cap on rates charged to domestic customers for the supply of gas and electricity; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th July 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th February 2018

A Bill to make provision about the international transport of goods by road; to make provision about the registration of trailers; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th July 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 19th December 2017

This Bill received Royal Assent on 10th May 2018 and was enacted into law.


A bill to make provision about the granting of old-style secure tenancies in cases of domestic abuse.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 10th May 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th November 2017

A Bill to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the national debt and the public revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th November 2017

A Bill to impose and regulate a duty of customs by reference to the importation of goods into the United Kingdom; to confer a power to impose and regulate a duty of customs by reference to the export of goods from the United Kingdom; to make other provision in relation to any duty of customs in connection with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU; to amend the law relating to value added tax, and the law relating to any excise duty on goods, in connection with that withdrawal; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 13th September 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 13th November 2017

A Bill to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of the year ending 31 March 2018; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources(including accruing resources) for the year ending 31 March 2018; and to repeal certain spent provisions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th November 2017 and was enacted into law.


The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. Make provision about the implementation of international trade agreements; to make provision establishing the Trade Remedies Authority and conferring functions on it; and to make provision about the collection and disclosure of information relating to trade.

Commons Completed
Lords Completed
Awaiting Ping-Pong

Last Event - 3rd Reading : House Of Lords
Wednesday 20th March 2019
(Read Debate)
Introduced: 18th October 2017

A Bill to make provision about automated vehicles and electric vehicles.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th July 2018 and was enacted into law.


A bill to make provision enabling sanctions to be imposed where appropriate for the purposes of compliance with United Nations obligations or other international obligations or for the purposes of furthering the prevention of terrorism or for the purposes of national security or international peace and security or for the purposes of furthering foreign policy objectives; to make provision for the purposes of the detection, investigation and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and for the purposes of implementing Standards published by the Financial Action Task Force relating to combating threats to the integrity of the international financial system; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd May 2018 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to extend the period for the Secretary of State to exercise powers relating to smart metering and to provide for a special administration regime for a smart meter communication licensee.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd May 2018 and was enacted into law.


A Bill To make provision about nuclear safeguards; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th June 2018 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to individuals; to make provision in connection with the Information Commissioner's functions under certain regulations relating to information; to make provision for a direct marketing code of conduct; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd May 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 6th September 2017

A Bill to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the national debt and the public revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th November 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 17th July 2017

A Bill to make provision for a railway between a junction with Phase One of High Speed 2, near Fradley Wood in Staffordshire, and a junction with the West Coast Main Line near Crewe in Cheshire; and for connected purposes.

Commons Completed
Lords - 40%

Last Event - Bill Reintroduced: House Of Commons
Tuesday 3rd March 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and make other provision in connection with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th June 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th July 2017

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th July 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision enabling relief from non-domestic rates in England and Wales to be conferred in respect of hereditaments used for the purposes of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electromagnetic energy; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 8th February 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th June 2017

A Bill to make provision for members of the Regular Forces to serve part-time or subject to geographic restrictions

This Bill received Royal Assent on 8th February 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th June 2017

A Bill to make provision about space activities and suborbital activities; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 22nd June 2017

To amend sections 71, 71A and 84 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982, and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th November 2017 and was enacted into law.


To make provision approving for the purposes of section 8 of the European Union Act 2011 draft decisions under Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on the participation of the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Serbia in the work of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and on the signing and conclusion of an agreement between the European Union and Canada regarding the application of their competition laws.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 7th December 2017 and was enacted into law.


A bill to make provision establishing a new financial guidance body; to make provision about the funding of debt advice in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; and to make provision about the regulation of claims management services.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 10th May 2018 and was enacted into law.