Lords PMBs of the 2019-21 Session


7 Bills progressed beyond Second Reading in the first house

These bills have passed the first substantive debate on the initial draft of the Bill (Second Reading) and are now in the process of review and amendment of bill text by a Bill Committee. For the Commons, Bill Committees are formed of around 20 MPs, whereas in the Lords, a Committee of the Whole House is usually formed.

For Commons Private Members Bills, the most difficult hurdle is to pass Second Reading, due to lack of time for the debate. Since 1986, every Government Bill has passed Second Reading.


A bill to make provision for NHS service commissioners to ensure that persons for whom they have responsibility for commissioning physical and mental health services have access to specialist and generalist palliative care and support services; to enable hospices to access pharmaceutical services on the same basis as other services commissioned by a clinical commissioning group; and to make provision for treatment of children with a life-limiting illness

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 7th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to require the Secretary of State to ensure that domestic properties have a minimum energy performance rating of C on an Energy Performance Certificate; to make provision regarding performance and insulation of new heating systems in existing properties; and for connected purposes

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 7th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for members of the House of Lords to vote in elections to the House of Commons

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 7th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make it an offence to provide or advertise cheating services for Higher Education assessments.

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Thursday 30th January 2020

A Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 13th March 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to create a right to die at home.

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Thursday 30th January 2020

A Bill to make provision for requiring public bodies to act in pursuit of the United Kingdom’s environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing by meeting wellbeing objectives, publishing future generations impact assessments, accounting for preventative spending, and through public services contracts; to establish a Commissioner for Future Generations for the United Kingdom; to establish a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Future Generations; to require companies to consider the impact of their activities on the United Kingdom’s wellbeing; and for connected purposes

Lords - 40%

Last Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 13th March 2020
(Read Debate)

79 Bills in initial stages

These bills have been laid before Parliament, but have not begun the Bill Process. A Short Title and Long Title (summary) of the Bill will have been provided, though a full text of the Bill may not have been tabled.

For Commons Private Members' Bills, unless a high position on the Order Paper has been secured for the Second Reading Debate (or unanimous consent is expected), it is unlikely that the Bill will progress further from this point. Often only Ballot Bills (which have priority for Second Reading) will have the opportunity to progress.


A bill to assign certain functions to Ofcom in relation to online harms regulation

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 14th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for access to free personal care

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 5th February 2020
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision to ensure that the police forces in England and Wales have sufficient resources to deliver police services; and for connected purposes

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 5th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill make provision for an inquiry into police conduct of Operation Conifer to be established

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 29th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to prohibit licensing to search and bore for petroleum and onshore hydraulic fracturing activities; to amend the principal objective for the Oil and Gas Authority to be to meet the carbon reduction target for ​2050 under the Climate Change Act 2008; and to provide for the Oil and Gas Authority to produce strategies which include the phasing out of the extraction and use of petroleum and transitional planning towards renewable energies

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for the provision of free period products

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 4th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the Pensions Act 2004 and the Companies Act 2006 to remove the cap on compensation payments under the Pension Protection Fund and to require the approval of pension scheme trustees and the Pensions Regulator for the distribution of dividends.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the law relating to parking on verges and footways in England outside of Greater London and in Wales

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 20th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Human Tissue Act 2004 concerning consent to activities done for the purpose of transplantation outside the United Kingdom and consent for imported cadavers on display

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 28th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to establish a public Advocate to provide advice to, and act as data controller for, representatives of the deceased after major incidents

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for an Office of the Whistleblower

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 28th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to establish an Office for Science Quality Assessment within the National Audit Office; and to authorise the Comptroller and Auditor-General to assess any research used as a basis of published policy by a public department

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 26th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision about supporting victims of modern slavery

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 13th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the law on marriage to permit authorised belief organisations to solemnise marriages

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 9th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to revoke parental or judicial consent which permits the marriage or civil partnership of a child and to criminalise child marriage or civil partnership under the age of 18; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 27th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Marriage Act 1949 to create an offence of purporting to solemnize an unregistered marriage

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 3rd February 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to mandate training on learning disability and autism for all health and social care staff undertaking regulated activities in England; and to provide for the Secretary of State to publish a code of practice for specialist training on learning disability and autism.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to empower local authorities to introduce Workplace Parking Levies with immediate effect and to impose penalty charges for moving traffic contraventions

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 29th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 to provide that the Prime Minister must recommend the person selected by a Joint Committee on Nominations to the Supreme Court; to make provision for a Joint Committee on Nominations to the Supreme Court and its functions; and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision to amend the statutory limits for payment of invoices; make provision for a statutory time limit for resolving payment disputes; amend interest for late payments and penalties for persistent late payments and non-compliance; prohibit specified payment practices, on-boarding and pay-to-stay; require payments becoming due under public sector construction projects to be held in project bank accounts; amend the remit, role and powers of the Small Business Commissioner in regard to late payments; provide for a duty on auditors to publish late payment data; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 21st January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for certain employers to be required to publish information about differences in pay relative to protected characteristics

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 3rd February 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to provide for the Secretary of State to develop and publish a video gaming health and wellbeing strategy and to provide for the Secretary of State to develop health advice on video gaming

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 20th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for the prohibition of unpaid work experience exceeding four weeks; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 13th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to create an offence of conduct in trade and commerce that is unconscionable; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 20th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for unaccompanied asylum seeking children to receive legal advice and for extending the deadline for an unaccompanied asylum seeking child to appeal an asylum decision

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 4th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision to enable the civil enforcement of moving traffic contraventions using approved devices

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 27th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision in relation to the civil enforcement of speeding contraventions

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 27th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for a review by the Secretary of State of the regulations governing gamete storage periods

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 22nd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to make transfers between siblings exempt in certain circumstances

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 14th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Education Act 2002 and the Academies Act 2010 to provide for schools under those Acts to promote the mental health and wellbeing of their pupils

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 14th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to provide for a duty on schools to run open days during school holidays and for free school meals to be provided for eligible pupils at the open days.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for children adopted from overseas to receive the same priority for admission to maintained schools as children looked after or previously looked after by a local authority in England

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 5th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 to create criminal offences relating to dangerous, careless or inconsiderate cycling, in particular applying to a pedal cycle, an electrically assisted pedal cycle, and an electric scooter

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 14th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Housing Act 1988 to abolish assured shorthold tenancies; to extend the grounds upon which landlords of residential housing may recover possession; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 22nd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for the regulation of political opinion polling in the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 27th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom to be granted to the family members of refugees and of people granted humanitarian protection; and to provide for legal aid to be made available in such cases

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 9th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision concerning referendums within the United Kingdom on constitutional or parliamentary arrangements

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 8th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for the avoidance of modern slavery in the procurement of public contracts; and for connected purposes

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 3rd February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide certain protections for persons who live together or have lived together as a couple; to make provision about the property of deceased persons survived by a cohabitant; and for connected purposes

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 6th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to bring into force the remaining sections of Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 21st January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to require the Secretary of State to report on devolution in England.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 30th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for the functions exercised by the Northern Ireland Department of Health to be exercised by the Secretary of State in the absence of a Northern Ireland Executive

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 27th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Data Protection Act 2018 to grant representative bodies and organisations power to exercise independent complaint and remedy rights on behalf of data subjects

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 29th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to amend the length of time for which an individual may have a criminal record under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 13th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision to include medical practitioners specialising in cosmetic surgery in the Specialist Register for medical practitioners

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 22nd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to require the coroner or jury at an inquest to record an opinion as to gambling addiction and any other relevant factors in a case of death by suicide; and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 16th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision about the allocation of contracts for difference; resume the allocation of contracts for difference to onshore wind projects; and make provision about planning applications for onshore wind installations.

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 30th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision about certain privileges related to constitutional matters.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 23rd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and make provision in connection with financial settlements following divorce

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 20th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to establish the right to breathe clean air; to require the Secretary of State to achieve and maintain clean air in England and Wales; to involve Public Health England in setting and reviewing pollutants and their limits; to enhance the powers, duties and functions of the Environment Agency, the Committee on Climate Change, local authorities (including port authorities), the Civil Aviation Authority, Highways England, Historic England and Natural England in relation to air pollution; to establish the Citizens’ Commission for Clean Air with powers to institute or intervene in legal proceedings; to require the Secretary of State and the relevant national authorities to apply environmental principles in carrying out their duties under this Act and the clean air enactments; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 13th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for a certificate to be issued to mothers in respect of miscarried and still-born children not eligible for registration under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953; to establish a database for archiving the certificate and recording information about the miscarriage or still-birth; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 21st January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to prohibit the registration of public service vehicles manufactured after 2025 which emit carbon; and to prohibit the registration of other public service vehicles which emit carbon after 2035

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 29th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to prohibit the use of automated facial recognition technology in public places and to provide for a review of its use

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 4th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to introduce a minimum period of 56 days before an asylum claim is considered to be determined for the purpose of ending asylum support

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 9th January 2020
(Read Debate)

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

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 28th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision to provide posthumous pardons to armed forces personnel convicted of, or cautioned for, certain abolished offences

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 21st January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to prohibit the publication of certain information regarding persons who have been arrested until they have been charged with an offence; to set out the circumstances where such information can be published without committing an offence; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 21st January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 4th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to require the Financial Conduct Authority to make rules for authorised persons to owe a duty of care to consumers in their regulated activities

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 9th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to enable the Secretary of State or an immigration officer to refuse entry, or to vary or curtail leave to enter or remain which has already been granted, to a person who is known to be, or to have been, involved in gross human rights abuses and who is not a UK or EEA national

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 22nd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for bishops of the Church of England no longer to be entitled to membership of the House of Lords

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 28th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision about elections to, and membership of, the House of Lords; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to permit young persons to carry out voluntary work on a heritage railway or tramway

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 14th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the law regarding succession to peerages and baronetcies and eligibility to stand for election as a hereditary member of the House of Lords; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 29th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to repeal the Hares Preservation Act 1892 and to make provision to prohibit the killing or taking of hares during the breeding season.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 23rd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to repeal the Bills of Sale Acts 1878 and 1882; to make provision for a new form of non-possessory security that may be created over goods owned by individuals; and for connected purposes

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 5th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for the High Court of England and Wales to make a preliminary finding on cases of alleged genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes; and for the subsequent referral of such findings to the International Criminal Court or a special tribunal

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 5th February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011; to make provision about the dissolution of Parliament and the determination of polling days for parliamentary general elections; and for connected purposes

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 3rd February 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to decriminalise the consensual termination of a pregnancy which has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week and in other prescribed circumstances; and to create a criminal offence for non-consensual termination of pregnancy

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 15th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to make provision for information and statistics to be available in various public places about the European Union and 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.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 23rd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision for a right for employees to obtain information relating to the pay of a comparator; to reform remedies and time limits relating to equal pay; to provide a right to equal pay where a single source can rectify unequal pay; to amend the statutory statement ​of particulars to include equal pay; to provide for requirements on certain employers to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees and between employees of different ethnic origins; and for related purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Tuesday 28th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to enable London Borough Councils and the Common Council of the City of London to achieve reductions in airborne emissions from specified plant in their areas and to make provision for the Secretary of State to set emission limits for such plant; to provide for fixed penalty notices in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 13th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to provide for a public consultation on the introduction of a trading obligation on vehicle manufacturers to increase the proportion of electrically propelled light passenger vehicles sold and on the introduction of a road usage duty to reduce transport carbon emissions; and to provide for graduated rates of duty to apply to modified vehicles.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 23rd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to make provision about election expenditure by candidates and political parties and about nominations as a parliamentary candidate; to abolish deposits; to confer powers on the Electoral Commission; and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 30th January 2020
(Read Debate)

A Bill to introduce an entitlement to assemblies that further the spiritual, moral, social and cultural education of all pupils, regardless of religion or belief, at state schools without a designated religious character in England; to repeal the requirement for these schools to hold collective worship; and for connected purposes.

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Thursday 23rd January 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to provide for a consultation on the introduction of a Duty to Plan requiring Category 1 responders to plan for terrorist threats and requiring those responsible for places to which the public have access to consider the vulnerability of those places to attack and take measures to mitigate any such vulnerability

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 3rd February 2020
(Read Debate)

A bill to amend the succession to the title of Duke of Cornwall; to remove various powers, exemptions and immunities from the Duchy of Cornwall; to make provisions relating to the Treasury Solicitor and any solicitor or attorney appointed in the affairs of the Duchy; and for connected purposes

Lords - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Monday 20th January 2020
(Read Debate)